ISO 14001 Step by Step: A practical guide

by Naeem Sadiq, Asif Hayat Khan

Overview

Take the first steps to ISO 14001 certification with this practical overview.

This book provides practical advice on how to achieve compliance with ISO 14001:2015, the international standard for an EMS (environmental management system). With an EMS certified to ISO 14001, you can improve the efficiency of your business operations and fulfil compliance obligations, while reassuring your employees, clients and other stakeholders that you are monitoring your environmental impact.

This easy-to-follow guide takes a step-by-step approach, and provides many sample documents to help you understand how to record and monitor your organisation's EMS processes.

Ideal for compliance managers, IT and general managers, environmental officers, auditors and trainers, this book will provide you with:

• The confidence to plan and design an EMS. Detailed descriptions of the ISO 14001:2015 requirements will give you a clear understanding of the standard, even if you lack specialist knowledge or previous experience;
• Guidance to build stakeholder support for your EMS. Information on why it is important for an organisation to have an environmental policy, and a sample communications procedure will help you to raise awareness of the benefits of implementing an EMS; and
• Advice on how to become an ISO 14001-certified organisation. The book takes a step-by-step approach to implementing an 1SO 14001-compliant EMS.

Key features:

• A concise summary of the ISO 14001:2015 requirements and how you can meet them.
• An overview of the documentation needed to achieve ISO 14001:2015 accreditation.
• Sample documents to help you understand how to record and monitor your organisation's environmental management processes.

New for the second edition:

• Updated for ISO 14001:2015, including terms, definitions and references;
• Revised approach to take into account requirements to address "risks and opportunities".

Your practical guide to implementing an EMS that complies with ISO 14001:2015 - buy this book today to get the help and guidance you need!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787780323
Publisher:	Itgp
Publication date:	01/22/2019
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	60
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

IT Governance Publishing (ITGP) is the world's leading IT-GRC publishing imprint and wholly owned by IT Governance Ltd. ITGP provides books and tools covering all IT governance, risk management and compliance frameworks, producing unique and practical publications of the highest quality, in the latest formats available, and which readers will find invaluable.

Table of Contents

1: PDCA, environmental policy, objectives and programmes (Clauses 5.1, 5.2 and 6.2)

2: Identifying environmental aspects and determining significant impacts (Clause 6.1.2)

3: Regulatory requirements and evaluating compliance (Clauses 6.1.3 and 9.1.2)

4: Resources, roles, responsibility, authority and communication (Clauses 5.3, 7.1 and 7.4)

5: Competence, training and awareness (Clauses 7.2 and 7.3)

6: Documentation and document control (Clause 7.5)

7: Operational controls (Clause 8.1)

8: Emergency preparedness and response (Clause 8.2)

9: Measuring and monitoring (Clause 9.1)

10: Internal audit (Clause 9.2)

11: Management review and continual improvement (Clauses 9.3 and 10.3)

12: Nonconformity, corrective and preventive action (Clause 10.2)

13: Green initiatives

Appendix A: Sample procedure for identifying environmental aspects

Appendix B: Sample procedure for internal and external communication

Appendix C: Sample procedure for control of documented information

Appendix D: Documented information required by ISO 14001

Appendix E: Sample format for a nonconformity report (NCR)

Appendix F: Sample procedure for internal EMS audit

Appendix G: Sample input report for EMS management review

Bibliography

Further reading