ISO 14001 : 2015 Knowledge sharing

[Rajesh Kumar .N]

Team,

I need the following documents for implementing ISO 14001: 2015 version

 

Can you share the following?

 

1.       Revised ISO 14001: 2015 Manual

2.       Aspect & Impact Sample

3.       Formats

4.       Procedures

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rajesh

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[Harjindarpal Singh]

Very useful for those who want to implement this standard.

[SUDHIR KUMAR SAHU]

ISO 14001-2015 Main changes

Organizational Context
•Strategic understanding of issues important to the organization and its EMS
•External factors
•Internal factors
•Environmental conditions affecting or affected by the organization.
•Knowledge gained guides EMS planning
•Select & manage issues with adverse or beneficial effects

Issues/Problems or Changing Circumstances related to:
•environmental conditions -climate, air/water quality, land use, resource availability & biodiversity
•external context -regulation, technology, economic, competition
•internal context -governance, strategy, resource capability

Interested Parties
•Determine relevant interested parties
─Internal and external
•Determine their relevant needs and expectations
─aka, interested party ‘requirements’
•Determine which of these needs and expectations become the organization’s‘requirements’
─aka, organization's 'compliance obligations
Compliance Obligations
•New terminology referring to an organization’s obligations
•The organization determines those it has to comply with and those it chooses to comply with
─Mandatory requirements
─Voluntary requirements
Once adopted, the organization is obliged to comply
•Evaluate compliance
Replaces ‘legal requirements and other applicable requirements to which the organization subscribes’
Maintain knowledge and understanding of compliance status
‘Risk-based Thinking’
•Determine key issues & requirements that can pose adverse or beneficial effects in a prioritized way to:
–Assure EMS can achieve its intended outcomes
–Prevent or reduce undesired effects
–Achieve continual improvement
•‘Risks and Opportunities’ that need to be addressed, include:
–Significant environmental aspects
–Compliance obligations
–Other priority issues for the organization
Formal Risk Assessment methodology not required

Issues w/ Potential Risk/Opportunity
•Environmental aspects
•Local/regional environmental conditions
•Compliance obligations
•Changing regulations
•Environmental performance
•Interested party concerns
•Financial/economic situation
•New product development
•Changes in operations
•Technologies, e.g., environmental, IT
•Product lifecycle, including supply chain
Take action to address those that are of strategic importance & that support the EMS intended outcomes

‘Risk-based Thinking’
Prioritize issues that effect intended outcomes:
–Enhancement of Environmental Performance
–Fulfillment of Compliance Obligations
–Achievement of Environmental Objectives
…Plus any additional ones an organization sets for itself
Plan actions to mitigate ‘risks’ and leverage ‘opportunities’, e.g.,
•Environmental Objectives • Monitoring/measuring
•Operational Control • Others, as appropriate
•Emergency Preparedness & Response
Org retains autonomy to determine priority issues

Life cycle Perspective
•Explicit in determining environmental aspects and operational controls
•Considers the environmental impacts that can be controlled and influenced during each stage of the product lifecycle
–Raw material acquisition
–Manufacture
–Packaging/Transport/Delivery
–Use
–End of life treatment & final disposal
Life cycle perspective does not require
a life cycle assessment

Operational Control
Control the stages of product lifecycle by:
•Establishing environmental requirements for
•product design & development, addressing each stage of product or service lifecycle
•procured products/services
•Communicating environmental requirements to external providers (i.e., suppliers, contractors)
•Providing information on environmental impacts associated with transport/delivery, use, end-of-life treatment, final disposal of products/services

Operational Control
Applies to processes needed to:
•Significant environmental aspects
•Compliance obligations
•Other risks & opportunities
•Environmental objectives
•Meet EMS requirements
•Implement planned actions
•Outsourced processes
Establish operating criteria
Control planned changes & mitigate adverse effects of unintended changes
Control or influence outsourced processes emphasized

Communications
•Establish a communication process
–Covering what, when, with whom and how it will communicate, internally & externally
•Information needs to be consistent & reliable
•Enable input/feedback for continual improvement
•Communicate externally as required byitscompliance obligations and its communication process
•Respond to inquiries by external interested parties
•Retain records, as appropriate

What to communicate
•Scope
•Importance of effective environmental management & conforming to EMS requirements
•Environmental policy
•Responsibilities/authorities for EMS roles
•EMS performance to top managers; internally and externally, as per compliance obligations & communication process
•Significantaspects
•Environmental objectives
•Responses to relevant communication from internal & external interested parties
•EMS, including changes
•Environmental requirements & environmental impacts to external providers &/or users
•Emergency prep & response information
•Audit results to top managers

Documented Information
New terminology referring to:
•documentation, documents and records
•acknowledges new information management methods
Specific requirements for creating, updating controlling and maintaining documents & records
•not significantly different from 2004 version
Eliminated requirement for EMS description
Organizations not required to use term
‘documented information’

Required Documentation
DOCUMENTS
•scope of the EMS
•environmental policy
•risks & opportunities
•process(es) to satisfy clause 6.1
•environmental aspects and impacts
•criteria for significant environmental aspects
•significant environmental aspects
•compliance obligations
•environmental objectives
•operational control –related*
•emergency preparedness & response
RECORDS
•Competence
•internal & external communications, as appropriate
•operational control –related*
•emergency preparedness & response*
•monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluationresults
•compliance evaluation results
•audit programme implementation
•audit results
•management review results
•corrective action results, nonconformities and actions taken
Plus any documents or records the organization
deems necessary, including that of external origin
Top Management Role
Visible support, involvement & commitment of top management are critical success factors
•Ownership & commitment
•Accountability for EMS effectiveness & results
•Understanding organizational context & using a risk-based approach to establish EMS priorities
•Emphasis on alignment with business strategy & integration with business processes

Leadership and Commitment
Can Delegate:
•Compatibility with the context & its strategic direction
•EMS integration into the business processes
•Resource availability
•Achievement of intended outcome(s)
Responsible to:
•Communicate
•Direct/support others to contribute to EMS effectiveness
•Promote continual improvement
•Support others in demonstrating their leadership
•Be accountable
Role as ‘Leaders’ to inspire others

Environmental Policy
Commitments
•Protection of the environment
•Conformity to compliance obligations
•Continual improvement
Protection of Environment includes
•Prevention of pollution and
•Other specific commitment(s) that are relevant to its context, as appropriate, e.g.,
•Sustainable resource use
•Climate change mitigation and adaptation
•Protection of biodiversity & ecosystems
•Or others

Continual Improvement
•Determine opportunities for improvement and implement actions to achieve intended outcomes
•Improve the suitability, adequacy and effectiveness of the environmental management system
•Focus -improving environmental performance
•Reducing adverse environmental impacts or
•Increasing beneficial impacts

[Jayalakshmi]

Team,

I am also required the same. Please share if any one already done transition from 2004 to 2015 std.