ISO 14001 List of Requirements

4.1 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

4.2 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

• Formulate an environmental policy appropriate to the organization's environmental impacts of its activities, products and services.
• Ensure that the environmental policy provides a framework for setting environmental objectives and targets.
• Include in the environmental policy a commitment to continual improvement.
• Include in the environmental policy a commitment to prevention of pollution.
• Include in the environmental policy a commitment to comply with environmental regulations.
• Document and implement the environmental policy and communicate it to all employees.
• Ensure that the environmental policy is available to the public

4.3 PLANNING

4.3.1 Environmental aspects

• Identify environmental aspects of the organization's activities, products and services.
• Select those environmental aspects that can be controlled, or over which the organization can be expected to have influence.
• Select significant environmental aspects using a disciplined and objective methodology for evaluating importance of environmental impacts.

4.3.2 Legal and other requirements

• Identify and have access to applicable legislative, regulatory and other requirements.

4.3.3 Objectives and targets

• Establish and maintain documented environmental objectives and targets at all relevant functions within the organization.
• Ensure that significant environmental aspects are considered in setting environmental objectives and targets.
• Ensure that legal and other requirements are considered in setting environmental objectives and targets.
• Ensure that views of interested parties are considered in setting environmental objectives and targets.
• Ensure that objectives and targets are consistent with the environmental policy, including the commitment to prevention of pollution.

4.3.4 Environmental management programs

• Establish management programs for achieving environmental objectives and targets.
• Assign responsibility for achieving environmental objectives and targets at each relevant function and level of the organization.
• Specify the means and time frame for achieving environmental objectives and targets.
• Update and amend programs as required to account for new developments and new or modified activities, products or services.

4.4 IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION

4.4.1 Structure and responsibility

• Define, document and communicate authorities, roles and responsibilities for operating the environmental management system.
• Provide adequate resources for the implementation and maintenance of the system.
• Appoint a management representative responsible for conformance with ISO 14001 and for reporting on the performance of the system.

4.4.2 Training, awareness and competence

• Identify training needs.
• Make employees aware and knowledgeable of the environmental policy, significant impacts and the environmental management system.
• Train all personnel in emergency preparedness and response procedures.
• Train and/or ensure competence of personnel whose work may create a significant environmental impact.

4.4.3 Communication

• Establish systems for internal communication regarding environmental issues.
• Establish system for receiving communication from external interested parties.
• Consider external communication of significant environmental aspects.

4.4.4 Environmental management system documentation

• Describe the environmental management system in a manual and reference the related documentation.

4.4.5 Document control

• Define the document control system and the types of controlled documents.
• Approve documents for use and periodically review them, and revise as necessary.
• Specify retention periods for controlled documents.
• Identify documents with their revision level, and maintain a master list with current revision status of documents.
• Ensure that appropriate documents are available at all locations where they are needed.
• Remove obsolete documents from points of use and identify retained historical copies of obsolete documents to preclude unintended use.
• Review and approve changes in documents and reissues of revised documents.

4.4.6 Operational control

• Identify and specify those operations and activities that are associated with the significant environmental aspects.
• Establish operational criteria, procedures and instructions to ensure conformance with the environmental policy, objectives and targets.
• Communicate environmental procedures and requirements to suppliers of products and services having significant environmental aspects.

4.4.7 Emergency preparedness and response

• Identify potential for accidents and emergency situations.
• Establish emergency preparedness and response procedures, and test the procedures where practicable.

4.5 CHECKING AND CORRECTIVE ACTION

4.5.1 Monitoring and measurement

• Monitor and measure key characteristics of those operations and activities that are related to significant aspects.
• Periodically evaluate compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations.
• Calibrate monitoring and measuring equipment, and maintain calibration records.

4.5.2 Nonconformance and corrective and preventive action

• Identify and investigate nonconformances and when appropriate take action to mitigate impacts.
• Initiate and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence of nonconformances.
• Initiate and implement preventive actions to prevent occurrence of potential nonconformances.

4.5.3 Records

• Maintain records necessary to demonstrate conformance to the requirements of the ISO 14001 standard.
• Index and organize environmental records to facilitate their retrieval, and protect records against damage or loss.
• Determine and document retention times for environmental records.

4.5.4 Environmental management system audit

• Establish a program, including scope and frequency, for conducting environmental management system audits.
• Define the methodology and requirements for conducting environmental management system audits.
• Implement corrective actions to deal with nonconformances identified by the audit.
• Report the results of audits to the executive management.

4.6 MANAGEMENT REVIEW

• Periodically conduct management reviews of the environmental system to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness.
• Provide management with information necessary to carry out the review.
• Ensure that management review considers the possible need for changes to the policy, objectives and other elements of the environmental system.
• Ensure that the review addresses the commitment to continual improvement.

Document the management review and record its results.