Iso 14001 Part 1
Chapter 1: Scope
An organization can enhance its environmental impacts by complying with the terms and rules stated by this International Standard.
Chapter 2: Normative References
This International Standard does not have any normative references.
Chapter 3: Terms and Definitions
Compliance Obligations – Legal and other requirements that a group must heed
Documented Information – Refers to the controlled and sustained data of an organization and their tools
Environmental Condition-Determined status of the environment
Environmental Impact – An organization’s effect to the environment, whether negative or positive
Environmental Management System – Developed to handle a group’s projects or products to follow the International Standard and address every options
Environmental Performance-Actions of the group on to the conduct of environmental activities or functions
Environmental Policy – Rules and plans related to environmental action as expressed by the top administration
Top management – The highest level of authority in an entity
Chapter 4: Context of the Organization
The group must recognize all issues relating to its purpose which affects its ability to accomplish the desired results of its environmental management system.
Chapter 5: Leadership
The top management handles all the results of the organization’s environmental management system, assuring all the required resources are available.
They must establish and enforce an environmental policy that will preserve the documented information, report the data within the group, and be accessible to interested parties.
They must assign relevant roles within the group with certain functions and duties to meet a splendid execution of the organization’s environmental management system.
Chapter 6: Planning
The organization must regard its problems, requirements, and scope when planning an environmental management system.
It is important to determine the risks and chances to prevent undesired results and do continual progress.
By utilizing established criteria,the group must incorporate all changes and abnormal circumstances that may have significant environmental impact.
Communicating these changes and circumstances is a must throughout all functions and levels of the organization.
The compliance obligations must be taken into account when developing, preserving, and improving the environmental management system.
The organization must plan actions to address significant natural aspects and how to test these actions.
It is necessary for every complying group to have developed a set of environmental objectives at relevant functions and levels.
These objectives have to be integrated in the group’s business processes and tasks.
Chapter 7: Support
The organization has to determine the resources for the environmental management system.
The group must ensure that the persons employing the environmental management system are competent and educated of the resources.
The people under the group must be aware of all the environmental policies and all actual or potential environmental impacts.
The complying group must have processes for internal and external communication.
It should guarantee reliable and consistent information within the environmental management system.
Internal and external communication must be among all functions and levels of the group. These communications must apply to the environmental management system.
Documented information is essential. It is necessary for performing the environmental management system.
To produce and update a documented information, it must have appropriate:
- Identification and description
- Format
- Review and approval
These should be accessible and suitable to apply when required. These should be protected.
Information of external origin but deemed important must be identified and controlled.