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EMS Gap Analysis Questionnaire

Area:
Title: Facility Name:
Phone: Facility Type:
Roles and Responsibilities:
Conducting the EMS Gap Analysis
Objectives
Pleasereturn a hard copy of this questionnaireto __________________________________ at ___________________________________ OR Email electronic
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Gap Analysis Background
Gap Analysis Questionnaire Description and Directions
The ISO 14001 Standard is internationally recognized and used by industry and government organizations to enhance environmental and operational effectiveness,
efficiency, and performance. Conducting an EMS gap analysis is a key step in developing and implementing an ISO 14001 EMS. The objectives of this step include:
Assisting select Areas and facilities in determining how their environmental management system compares to the 17 elements of the ISO 14001 EMS Standard,
and
Improving EMS assessment tools and guidance to ensure practicality and compliance with environmental requirements and other relevant requirements.
The EMS gap analysis is a self-evaluation. A series of questions will help you compare your organizations current environmental management practices against the
ISO 14001 Standard. This comparison provides a baseline assessment of your organization and helps you to identify current systems in place for managing
environmental issues, including existing policies and procedures, roles and responsibilities, communication systems, training programs and others. As you conduct
the analysis, you will recognize strengths and weaknesses of your organizations present environmental operations and determine the extent to which your operations
conform to the ISO 14001 EMS Standard.
The bulk of the questionnaire addresses the ISO 14001 requirements. There are 17 short sections of questions that correspond to the 17 EMS elements. The 17
sections fall under the five main EMS categories of environmental policy; planning; implementation and operations; corrective action; and management review. Each
of the sections are labeled with the EMS element number so you can easily reference additional information about the 17 elements of the Standard.
Upon completion of the analysis, you should be able to identify which of the 17 EMS elements are already in place and which you need to develop or further refine.
Conducting the gap analysis will also help familiarize you with the ISO 14001 EMS Standard and the elements critical to developing, implementing, checking, and
improving the EMS on a continual basis.
The EMS Gap Analysis Questionnaire is a tool to help you conduct an EMS gap analysis assessment on your organization. When undertaking this assessment,
include people who have direct knowledge of as many environmental and operational functions as possible. This is important so that several employees gain exposure
to the EMS process and also because each employee brings specific knowledge about environmental practices from his or her functional area.
The questionnaire first asks for basic organizational information and background information about the respondent who will be completing the survey such as name,
title, roles and responsibilities, and telephone number.
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Not in place Partially in
place
In Place
X
Question Category: Environmental Policy
EMS Element 1: Environmental Policy (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.2)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
1.
2.
3.
Not in place = 0 points Partially in place = 1 point In place = 2 points
Indicators of Conformity
2) List of Reference Material: The second part of the list at the end of this gap analysis questionnaire is a list of reference materials you may already possess that
could help you identify your current EMS status. This list is organized by each of the 17 elements of the Standard.
Hints
There are three check boxes to the right of each of the questions on the Gap Analysis Questionnaire. After you respond to each question, place an "X" or a check in
the block that best describes the status of the component as it relates to your EMS. The status blocks in the gap analysis tool are represented as follows:
A numerical rating measuring your organizations conformance to the ISO 14001 Standard is determined from the responses on this questionnaire. A numerical rating
is given for each component response as follows:
Status
1) List of Required Documentation and Records: The ISO 14001 EMS Standard requires physical (or electronic) evidence of certain documents and records.
This includes, for example, the organization's environmental policy. There is a list at the end of this gap analysis questionnaire that highlights which items require
physical (or electronic) evidence in the form of documentation or records. The list is organized by each of the 17 elements in the Standard. Elements of the ISO
14001 EMS Standard that require documentation are indicated in bold text in the gap analysis questionnaire for easy reference to the requirements of the Standard.
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
The responses are totaled for the entire questionnaire resulting in your score. The highest score possible, 172, indicates all components of the 17 elements are In
place in your EMS (85 questions/components x 2 points for each component In place = 170 points). This baseline assessment enables you to focus on continual
improvement. In the electronic version of the EMS Gap Analysis Questionnaire provided with the EMS Toolkit, the second tab titled "Summary Chart", contains a
bar chart to give you a visual depiction of the degree to which you conform to the ISO 14001 EMS Standard. This chart can be used in management presentations to
show the progress of your EMS implementation.
Has top management defined the organization's environmental
policy?
Does your procedure (process) for the environmental policy
ensure that the policy is appropriate to the nature, scale and
environmental impacts of its activities, products, and services
that are within the defined scope of your environmental
management system?
Does your environmental policy within the defined scope of your
EMS commit to continual improvement and prevention of
pollution?
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4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Is the policy consistent with
other corporate policies
affecting the business?
0 0 0
16 points available
0
Question Category: Planning
EMS Element 2: Environmental Aspects (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.3.1)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
10.
11.
12.
Is there a risk assessment
process to determine
significance or priority of
identified environmental
aspects/impacts?
0 0 0
8 points available
0
Indicators of Conformity
0
Status subtotals:
9.
Ensuring that significant environmental aspects are considered
in developing, implementing and maintaining the EMS?
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
Does your environmental policy within the defined scope of your
EMS commit to complying with applicable environmental legal
requirements and other environmental requirements?
Does your procedure (process) for the environmental policy
provide a framework for setting and reviewing environmental
objectives and targets?
Does your procedure (process) for the environmental policy
make the policy available to the public?
Does your procedure (process) for environmental aspects
address: Identifying environmental aspects of activities,
products, and services within the defined scope of the EMS that
it can control and those which it can influence taking into
account planned or new developments, or new or modified
activities, products and services?
0 Status Total:
Percentage complete:
Status subtotals:
Does your procedure ensure that the environmental policy
is documented, implemented, and maintained?
Does your procedure (process) for the environmental policy
communicate the policy to all persons working for or on behalf of
the organization?
Maintaining a documented up-to-date list of all aspects
including those that are significant?
Determining those aspects that have or can have significant
impact on the environment?
Status Total:
Percentage complete:
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EMS Element 3: Legal and Other Requirements (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.3.2)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
13.
14.
0 0 0
14 points available
0
EMS Element 4: Objectives, Targets and Programme(s) (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.3.3)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
15.
16.
17.
18.
Does your procedure (process) for Objectives, Targets and
Programmes address:
Identifying other environmental requirements to which your
organization subscribes?
Accessing other environmental requirements to which your
organization subscribes?
Determining how other environmental requirements to which
your organization subscribes apply to your organization's
aspects?
Establishing measurable objectives and targets, where
practicable, that are consistent with the environmental policy,
including the commitments to prevention of pollution,
compliance with legal and other environmental requirements
and continual improvement?
The legal and other environmental requirements, its significant
environmental aspects, its technology options and its financial,
operational and business requirements and the views of
interested parties when establishing and reviewing objectives
and targets?
Percentage complete:
Indicators of Conformity
Does your procedure ensure that environmental legal and other
environmental requirements to which the organization
subscribes are considered in developing, implementing and
maintaining your organization's environmental management
system?
Establishing and maintaining documented environmental
objectives and targets at relevant functions and levels
within the organization?
Notes
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
Finding / Corrective
Action
Does your procedure (process) for environmental legal and
other environmental requirements address:
Identifying applicable legal requirements related to your
organization's environmental aspects?

0 Status Total:
Indicators of Conformity
Status subtotals:
Accessing applicable legal requirements related to your
organization's environmental aspects?
Determining how the legal requirements apply to your
organization's aspects?
Does your procedure (process) address establishing and
maintaining programs for achieving your organization's
objectives and targets, including designating responsibility for
achieving objectives and targets at relevant functions and levels
of your organization?
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Have specific environmental
improvement objectives
been communicated to all
relevant business units and
employees, contractors and
suppliers?
Determine whether the
facility has prepared and
implemented sufficient
written policies and
procedures to ensure
compliance with applicable
standards and consistency
in implementation practices,
and to provide guidance on
how to meet applicable
standards.
Confirm that the
facility has established
compliance standards to
be followed that are
reasonably capable of
reducing the prospect of
criminal conduct.
Verify, where
possible, that the facility
has taken steps to
achieve compliance with
its environmental
standards.
Verify that the facility has a
program in place to review
the full range of capital
projects, maintenance
modifications, process
changes, and R&D initiatives
to identify potentially
significant consequences.
Does your procedure (process) address establishing and
maintaining programs for achieving your organization's
objectives and targets, including the means and time-frame by
which the objectives and targets are to be achieved?
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Determine if these
review are performed in
a timely manner, by
appropriately trained
professionals and if a
formal methodology is
employed.
0 0 0
10 points available
0
Question Category: Implementation and Operation
EMS Element 5: Resources, roles, responsibility and authority (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.4.1)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
20.
21.
22.
Verify if the roles and
responsibilities cover:
Legal/regulatory tracking;
Updating/reviewing
documentation control
procedures; Training; Policy
and procedure development;
Contractor oversight; Follow-
up to
inspections/audits/periodic
reviews; Updating the
environmental policy;
Identifying environmental
aspects/impacts of on-site
operations; and, Responding
to external requests for
Status subtotals:
Management ensuring the availability of resources (human
resources & specialized skills, internal infrastructure, technology
and financial resources) essential for the implementation and
control of the environmental management system?
Defining, documenting and communicating the roles,
responsibilities and authorities to facilitate effective
environmental management?
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
Status Total:
Indicators of Conformity
0
Percentage complete:
Reporting on the performance of the environmental
management system to top management for review and as the
basis for improvement?
Does your procedure (process) for resources, roles, responsibility
and authority address:
Top management appointing a specific management
representative who, irrespective of other responsibilities, has
defined responsibilities and authority for:
Ensuring that an environmental management system is
established, implemented, and maintained in accordance with
the requirements of ISO 14001?
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Verify that the roles are
clearly defined, documented,
and understood and that
there are no redundancies or
gaps in the coverage.
Interview staff from various
operating departments to
confirm that environmental
roles and responsibilities are
clearly understood within the
facility.
0 0 0
8 points available
0
EMS Element 6: Competence, training and awareness (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.4.2)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
23.
24.
25.
Notes
Finding / Corrective
Action
Does your procedure (process) for competence, training and
awareness address:
Identifying training needs to ensure that any person(s)
performing tasks on the organization's behalf that have the
potential to cause (a) significant environmental impact(s)
identified by the organization is/are competent on the basis of
Identifying training needs associated with the organization's
environmental aspects and its EMS? Providing training or
taking other actions to meet these needs?
Making persons working for the organization or on its behalf
aware of:
The importance of conformity with the environmental policy
and procedures and with the requirements of the environmental
management system?
0
Status subtotals:
Status Total:
Percentage complete:
Indicators of Conformity
The significant environmental impacts, actual or potential, of
their work and the environmental benefits of improved personal
performance?
Their roles and responsibilities in achieving conformity with the
environmental policy and procedures and with the requirements
of the environmental management system, including emergency
preparedness and response requirements?
The potential consequences of departure from specified
operating procedures?
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The scope of training
includes: Emergency
response and preparedness;
The importance of complying
with established
performance criteria and the
potential consequences of
departure from specified
environmental operating
procedures; Adequate detail
to motivate personnel to
prevent, detect, and correct
violations; and, The facility
offers all staff an opportunity
to attend internal
environmental training
sessions.
Identify a sample of facility
personnel who perform tasks
that can cause significant
environmental impact.
Verify that these staff
members have received
appropriate
environmental training
relative to the job
functions/tasks
performed.
Confirm that the facility
promotes environmental
awareness through periodic
memoranda, use of bulletin
boards, environmental
newsletters, award
Confirm whether staff with
environmental
responsibilities have the
relevant background,
training, and capabilities to
effectively carry out their
responsibilities.
0 0 0
12 points available
0
EMS Element 7: Communication (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.4.3)
Status
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
Status Total:
Percentage complete:
0
Indicators of Conformity
Status subtotals:
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Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
26.
27.
28.
0 0 0
8 points available
0
EMS Element 8: Documentation (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.4.4)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
29.
0 0 0
10 points available
0
EMS Element 9: Control of Documents (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.4.5)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
- a description of the scope of the environmental
management system?
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
Notes
Finding / Corrective
Action
Documents and records the organization determined
necessary to ensure the effective planning, operation and
control of processes that relate to its significant
environmental aspects?
Status subtotals:
If the decision is to communicate externally on its significant
environmental aspects, does the organization have a method(s)
for this external communication?
Establishing and maintaining procedures for internal
communication between the various levels and functions of your
organization with regard to your organization's environmental
aspects and environmental management system?
Establishing and maintaining procedures for receiving,
documenting, and responding to relevant communication from
external interested parties with regard to your organization's
environmental aspects and environmental management
Does your environmental management system
documentation include:
An environmental policy, objectives and targets for your
organization?

Does your procedure (process) for Communication address:
0
Indicators of Conformity
Indicators of Conformity
Indicators of Conformity
0
Percentage complete:
Status Total:
The organization's decision on whether to communicate
externally on its significant environmental aspects and the
documentation of that decision?
Percentage complete:
A description of the main elements of the environmental
management system and their interaction and reference to
related documents?
Documents and records required by the ISO 14001
Standard (at minimum those bolded in this gap analysis
tool)?
Status subtotals:
Status Total:
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30.
31.
Evaluate whether: There are
systems in place to ensure
that all required reports are
sent to regulators in a timely
fashion; The
documentation/records
system clearly identifies the
maintenance retention
period, and disposition of
records; and, Employees
have access to
environmental documents
they need to conduct job
activities.
0 0 0
18 points available
0
EMS Element 10: Operational Control (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.4.6)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
32.
33.
0
Indicators of Conformity Notes
Finding / Corrective
Action
Status subtotals:
Does your document control procedure(s) address the need to
control documents required by the environmental management
system and by the International Standard?
Does your procedure (process) for Operational Controls:
Does your document control procedure(s) address the need to:
Approve documents before they are issued?
Status Total:
Ensure that external documentation you deem necessary for
the planning and operation of the environmental management
system are identified and their distribution controlled?
Ensure obsolete documentation is not unintentionally used?
Identify obsolete documentation if it needs to be retained for
any purpose?
Establish and maintain documented procedures to control
situations for those operations where absence of
documented procedure(s) could lead to deviation from your
environmental policy, objectives and targets?
Identify those operations that are associated with the identified
significant environmental aspects consistent with your
organization's environmental policy, objectives and targets?
Percentage complete:
Ensure documents are legible and easily identifiable?
Ensure current documents are available at points of use?
Review and update them as necessary, and re-approve them
before reissuing them?
Ensure changes and the current revision status of documents
are identified?
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34.
0 0 0
6 points available
0
EMS Element 11: Emergency preparedness and response (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.4.7)
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
35.
36.
37.
38.
Confirm that the procedures
have been updated, as
appropriate, in response to
new information or program
reviews.
0 0 0
8 points available
0
Question Category: Checking
EMS Element 12: Monitoring and measurement (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.5.1)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
39.
40.
41.
0 0 0
6 points available
0
0
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes Indicators of Conformity
Plan these operations in order that they are carried out under
specific conditions, stipulate operating criteria, establish,
implement and maintain environmental procedures related to
goods and services used by the organization and communicate
applicable requirements to suppliers and contractors?
Respond to actual emergency situations and accidents and
prevent or mitigate associated environmental impacts?
Do you establish and maintain a procedure (process) for emergency
preparedness and response that addresses how to:
Status Total:
Status subtotals:
Status subtotals:
Does your organization periodically test the emergency
preparedness and response procedures where practicable?
0
Status Total:
Percentage complete:
Does your organization periodically review and, where
necessary, revise the emergency preparedness and response
procedures, in particular, after the occurrence of accidents or
Identify potential emergency situations and potential accidents
that can have (an) impact(s) on the environment and how the
organization will respond?
Status
Indicators of Conformity
Percentage complete:
0
Monitoring and measurement equipment is calibrated and
maintained and all associated records are retained?
Do you establish and maintain a procedure (process) for monitoring
and measurement that ensures:
Status subtotals:
Status Total:
Percentage complete:
Information is documented to monitor performance,
applicable operational controls, and conformity with the
objectives and targets of your organization?
Key characteristics of your operations (that can have a
significant environmental impact) are monitored and measured
on a regular basis?
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EMS Element 13: Evaluation of compliance (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.5.2)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
42.
0 0 0
2 points available
0
EMS Element 14: Nonconformity, corrective action and preventive action (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.5.3)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
43.
44.
45.
46.
0 0 0
12 points available
0
EMS Element 15: Control of Records (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.5.4)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
47.
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
After corrective and preventive actions have been taken, are
they reviewed and the program adjusted accordingly by
implementing and documenting any new changes that
0
Indicators of Conformity
Percentage complete:
Are any measures taken to identify, correct, mitigate, prevent or
eliminate the nonconformity(-ies) consistent with the magnitude
of the problems and the environmental impacts encountered?
Has your organization created and maintained records as
necessary that demonstrate compliance with the EMS and
conformance to the requirements of the ISO 14001
Standard, including evaluation of compliance with
environmental legal requirements and other environmental
requirements to which the organization subscribes and the
implementation of procedures and results achieved?
Does your procedure (process) to meet the organization's
commitment to compliance ensure that you periodically evaluate
compliance with applicable environmental legal requirements
and other environmental requirements to which the organization
Notes
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
Finding / Corrective
Action
0
Status subtotals:
Status Total:
Indicators of Conformity
Do you establish and maintain a procedure (process) for
controlling non-conformities and taking corrective and preventive
actions?
Status Total:
Percentage complete:
Indicators of Conformity
Actions are taken to investigate and eliminate the causes of
nonconformities so that they do not occur again?
Actions are determined to eliminate the causes of potential
non-conformities and to prevent their recurrence?
Status subtotals:
Does the procedure for controlling non-conformities and taking
corrective and preventive action ensure that:
Actual non-conformity(-ies) are identified and corrected and
their environmental impact(s) are mitigated?
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48.
49.
0 0 0
6 points available
0
EMS Element 16: Internal audit (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.5.5)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
50.
51.
52.
53.
0 0 0
18 points available
0
EMS Element 17: Management review (ISO 14001:2004(E), Paragraph 4.6)
Status
Not in
place
Partially
in place
In
place
54. Ensure continuing suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness of the
environmental management system through top management
review of it at planned intervals?
Are the records themselves legible, identifiable, and traceable?
State the responsibilities and requirements for planning and
conducting audits?
Does your procedure (process) for records management
describe how the records will be identified, stored, protected,
retrieved, retained, and disposed?
Ensure that the selection of auditors and the conduct of the
audits maintains the objectivity and impartiality of the audit
process?
Does your procedure (process) for an internal environmental
management system audit:
Percentage complete:
0
Indicators of Conformity
Indicators of Conformity
Does your procedure (process) for Management Review:
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
Finding / Corrective
Action
Notes
Ensure that internal environmental management system audits
are conducted at planned intervals?

Question Category: Management Review
Status subtotals:
Status Total:
0
Status subtotals:
Define the audit criteria, scope, frequency and methods and
explain how you have determined them?
Determine whether the environmental management system
conforms to planned arrangements for environmental
management including the requirements of the ISO 14001
Standard? Determine whether the environmental management system
has been properly implemented and is maintained?
Determine whether the environmental management system
provides information on the results of audits to management?
State the responsibilities and requirements for reporting
results?
Status Total:
Percentage complete:
Plan, establish and maintain the environmental management
audit program taking into consideration the environmental
importance of the operation(s) concerns and the results of
previous audits?
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55.
56.
57.
Confirm that a review
process exists to update the
policy and to communicate
changes to appropriate
stakeholders.
0 0 0
10 points available
0 0 0
172 points available
Element 1: Environmental Policy
- Organization's Environmental Policy
Element 2: Environmental Aspects
Element 3: Legal and Other Requirements
Element 4: Objectives and Targets
- Chemical management plan
Required Documents and Records Reference Materials
- Laws, regulatory and other code requirements
- Voluntary standard agreements
- Environmental Policy
- List of performance measures for decontaminations process
Ensure that opportunities are assessed for improvement and the
need for changes to the environmental management system
including the environmental policy and environmental objectives
and targets are assessed?
- Results of environmental aspects identification process
- List of all aspects
Ensure that the outputs from the management review include
any decisions and actions related to possible changes to the
environmental policy, objectives and other elements of the
environmental management system, consistent with the
commitment to continual improvement?
Contain input which includes the following: results of
environmental management system audits, communication from
external interested parties, the performance of the
environmental management system, the extent to which
objectives and targets have been met, status of corrective and
preventive actions, follow-up actions from previous management
reviews, changing circumstances, and recommendations for
- List of significant aspects
Percentage complete:
Total Program percentage complete:
- List of programs associated with significant aspects
- Environmental objectives and targets
- List of critical business functions
- Wastewater management plan
- Hazardous management plan
0
Status subtotals:
0
0
Program Totals
Element subtotals:
Program Total:
0
Status Total:
Ensure that the results of the management reviews are
documented?
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Element 5: Resources, roles, responsibility and authority
Element 6: Competence, training and awareness
Element 7: Communication
Element 8: Documentation
Element 9: Document Control
Element 10: Operational Control
(where the absence of documented procedures could lead to deviation from the
environmental policy and the objectives and targets)
Element 11: Emergency preparedness and response
- Roles, responsibilities, and authorities for the environmental management system
- Description of the main elements of the EMS and their interaction and reference to related documents
- Documents and records determined by the organization to be necessary to ensure the effective planning,
operation and control of processes that relate to its significant environmental aspects
- Operational Control Procedures
- Job descriptions for key on site staff for programs to address
significant aspects
- Process Safety management
- Preventative maintenance plan for equipment
- Work schedules
- Organizational charts
- Key presentations
- Newsletters
- Training material and sign up sheets
- Staffing assignments
- Roster of fully equipped and trained emergency personnel with the
authority to perform essential functions and activities
- Budgets
- Bloodborne pathogens program
- Communications program
- Shift change meeting notes
- Training records
- Resumes of staff responsible for key programs
Reference Materials
- Master call list for employees
- Procedures for different media
- Contactor environmental plans
- Operational controls
- Town meeting presentations
- PR releases
- Web based information
- Communications with customers, suppliers, contractors and other
external parties
- List of key documents
- Legal documents
- Permits
- Correspondence with management
- Sample script
- Internal communication procedure
Required Documents and Records
- External communication procedure
- The organization's decision whether to communicate their environmental aspects externally
- Sampling procedures
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Element 12: Monitoring and measurement
Element 13: Evaluation of legal compliance
Element 14: Nonconformity and preventative and corrective action
Element 15: Records
Element 16:Internal environmental management system audit
Element 17: Management review
- Records as necessary to demonstrate conformity to the requirements of the EMS and of the International
Standard.
- Information to monitor performance, applicable operational controls and conformity with the
organization's environmental objectives and targets
- Records associated with calibration and maintenance of monitoring and measurement equipment
Required Documents and Records
- Change to environmental management system
Reference Materials
- Results of management review
- Sampling and monitoring data
- Equipment maintenance records
- Training, environmental management audit and management review
- Vital legal and financial records (accounts receivable; contracting
and acquisition files; official personnel files: social security, payroll,
retirement, and insurance records; and property management and
inventory records)
- Logs and notes for emergency response exercises
- Self assessments
- Environmental management audit reports
- Senior managers meeting minutes
- Reports of identified nonconformance, corrective action plans and
corrective action tracking
- Reports of hazardous material spills or other environmental
incidents
- Reports of progress toward meeting objectives and targets
- Monitoring equipment calibrations
- Accident investigation reports
- Injury and illness reports
- EMS audit and regulatory compliance audit reports
- Permits, licenses and other approvals
- Site emergency response plan
- Incident notification procedure
- Results of management reviews
- New changes to the program resulting from findings once the corrective and preventive actions have been
taken
- Organization evacuation procedure
- Employee meeting and disbursement procedure
- Records of monitoring and measurements
- Record retention policy
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ISO 14001:2004 EMS Elements
Facility Name and Type
1 Environmental Policy
2 Environmental Aspects
3 Legal and Other Requirements
4 Objectives, Targets and Programs
5 Resources, Roles, Responsibility and Authority
6 Competence, Training and Awareness
7 Communication
8 Documentation
9 Control of Documents
10 Operational Control
11 Emergency Preparedness and Response
12 Monitoring and Measurement
13 Evaluation of Compliance
14 Nonconformity, Corrective Action and Preventive Action
15 Control of Records
16 Internal Audit
17 Management Review

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