1. Environmental Management System (EMS)
ISO 14001

2. Environmental Management System (EMS)
Part of an organization’s management system used to develop and implement its environmental policy and manage its environmental aspects

3. Environmental Management System (EMS)
PLAN DO
CHECK
IMPROVE
Diagrammatically speaking, the circle plan, do, check and improve cycle takes the performance of an organization, gradually upwards with both quality as well as environmental assurance.

4. Environmental Management System (EMS) ISO 14001:2004 REQUIREMENTS
General Requirements
Environmental Management System
Establish
Document
Maintain
Continually improve

5. Environmental Policy Defined by top management
Appropriate to nature, scale and environmental impacts of activities, products and services
Includes commitment of continual improvement, prevention of pollution and applicable laws and requirements
Framework for setting and reviewing objectives and targets
Documented, implemented and maintained
Communicated to all persons related with the organizations
Available to public

6. PLANNING

7. Environmental Aspects
Establish, implement and maintain procedure (s) to
Identify environmental aspects (activities, products, services)
Identify significant aspects

8. Legal and Other Requirements
Establish, implement and maintain procedure (s) to
Identify and have access to applicable legal and other requirements related with environmental aspects
Determine how these requirements apply to its environmental aspects

9. Objectives, Targets and Programmes
Establish, implement and maintain documented environmental objectives and targets
Measurable where practicable, consistent with the policy
Commitment to prevention of pollution, compliance with applicable legal and other requirements and continual improvement
Establish, implement and maintain programme (s) for achieving objectives and targets
Programme will have designation of responsibilities
Means and time frame

10. IMPLEMENTATION & OPERATION

11. Resource, Roles, Responsibility and Authority
Management shall ensure the availability of resources
Human resources, specialized skills, organizational infrastructure, technology and financial resources
Roles, responsibilities and authority shall be defined, documented and communicated
Top management shall appoint a specific management representative (s)
He will ensure EMS implementation
He will report to top management on the performance of EMS

12. Competence, Training and Awareness
Trained Workforce for EMS
Roles and responsibilities
Environmental policy, significant aspects and related impacts
Identify training needs

13. Communication
With regard to environmental aspects and environmental management system, organization shall establish, implement and maintain procedures for
Internal communication among various levels and functions of the organization
Receiving, documenting and responding to relevant communication from external interested parties
Organization will decide whether to communicate externally its significant aspects or not. Document the decision. If yes, then establish and implement method for this communication.

14. Documentation Environmental policy, objectives and targets
Scope of the EMS
Description of main elements of EMS and their interaction and reference to related documents
Documents including records required by the standard
Documents and record, decided by the organization for effective planning, operation and control of processes related with significant aspects

15. Control of Documents
Organization shall establish, implement and maintain a procedure (s) to
Approve documents prior to issue
Review and update and re-approve
Ensure changes and current revision status of documents are identified
Ensure that relevant versions of applicable documents are available
Ensure that documents remain legible and readily identifiable
Prevent the unintended use of obsolete documents

16. Operational Control
Organization shall identify and plan those operations associated with significant aspects in order to ensure that these are operating under controlled conditions
Establish, implement and maintain a documented procedure to control
Operating criteria
In case of goods and services significant aspects, procedures will be communicated to suppliers and contractors

17. Emergency Preparedness and Response
Organization shall establish, implement and maintain procedure to identify and respond potential emergency situations and potential accidents.
Organization shall respond to emergency and prevent/mitigate its impacts
Revise or modify the procedure after the occurrence of emergency or accident
Test the procedure

18. CHECKING

19. Monitoring and Measurement
Organization shall establish, implement and maintain procedure to monitor and measure, on a regular basis, the key characteristics of its operations that can have significant environmental impacts
Procedure includes documenting information to monitor performance, operational controls and conformity with objectives and targets
Ensure that calibrated equipments are used
“If you can’t measure, you can’t manage.”

20. Evaluation of Compliance
Procedure for periodically evaluating compliance with the applicable laws and other requirements
Keep records of the results of the periodic evaluation

21. Nonconformity, Corrective Action & Preventive Action
Organization shall establish, implement and maintain procedure for dealing nonconformities and for taking corrective action. Procedure will include
Identifying and correcting nonconformity and taking action
Investigation and determining their causes and taking actions to avoid their recurrence
Record the results of corrective actions and preventive actions taken
Reviewing the effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions taken

22. Control of Records
Organization shall establish and maintain records as necessary to demonstrate conformity to the requirements of EMS
Establish, implement and maintain procedure for identification, storage, protection, retrieval, retention and disposal of records
Records shall be and remain legible, identifiable and traceable

23. Internal Audit
Ensure that internal audit is conducted at planned intervals
To determine whether EMS conforms with the planning and international standard
Properly implemented and maintained
Provide results to the management

24. Management Review
Top management will review the EMS at planned intervals to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness
Reviews shall include assessing opportunities for improvement and need for changes to the EMS (Environmental policy, objectives/targets/programs
Records of the meeting will be kept