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Have you allocated responsibilities to each process?
Have you identified all risks and opportunities/ Aspects and Impacts associated with each process?
4.1 Understanding the organization and its context
Need to establish context and identify interested parties. These groups can include shareholders, customers, regulatory groups etc.
Have you included the products and/or services included in your management system?
Have you amended the scope and highlighted the change?
Have you considered clauses 4.1 & 4.2 in determining the scope of theEMS
Have you identified all your processes?
Have you defined a sequence of how these processes interact?
Do you have the resources to supneed to identify any boundaries and include what’s relevant to the business. This could include the whole organization or specific functions.
Have you been clear on what’s relevant in the scope?
ISO 14001:2015 transition checklist
Instructions for use
This document is intended to provide a framework to assist you make the transition to BS EN ISO 14001:2015 (ISO 14001:2015). It will help you to evaluate your readiness to undergo your transition audit. The questions relate to where the standard has been changed either with a new clause or an amended clause.
Have you identified any compliance obligations?
How will you monitor and review this?
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4.3 Determining the scope of the environmental management system
The document is to ensure you have asked and answered all the relevant questions for the transition to take place.
Please complete each table, recording brief details of the evidence you would show to your auditor to demonstrate how you have addressed the clauses.
Have you identified the internal and external issues?
Have you identified and implemented ways of monitoring these issues?
Have you considered the impact of any changes to these issues?
Part 1: ISO
Please ensure you can evidence each requirement of ISO14001:2015 has been addressed within yourenvironmental management system (EMS).
4 Context of the organization
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4.4 Environmental management system
There is a requirement is for you to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve yourEMS. Although every organization is different, documented information such as process diagrams and/or written procedures could support this.
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4.2 Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties
Have you identified interested parties who could affect theEMS?
Have you understood their needs and expectations?