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What Are The Benefits of Certification?

This comprehensive environmental management checklist helps you assess your certification readiness and identify gaps in your EMS implementation.

Environmental Awareness

Effective and efficient communication about environmental issues inside and outside the organisation

Knowledge

Capturing institutional knowledge by properly documenting, retaining and communicating environmental related information

Meet External Requirements

Demonstrate your environmental compliance to external stakeholders

Increased Credibility

Provide confidence in your environmental management practices to stakeholders

Context & Leadership

Have we determined the internal and external issues that will impact on our environmental management system?

Have we determined which interested parties are relevant to our environmental management system and their specific requirements?

Have we determined and documented the scope and boundaries of our environmental management system?

Can we demonstrate that top management is providing leadership and commitment to the environmental management system?

Have we documented an environmental policy that is communicated and available to all relevant parties?

Have we documented the roles and responsibilities for environmental management within our organisation?

Planning

Support

Have we identified and provided the necessary resources (people, infrastructure, technology) for our environmental management system?

Do we ensure personnel working under our control have the necessary competence for their environmental responsibilities?

Have we maintained records of personnel competence, training and qualifications?

Have we ensured all personnel are aware of our environmental policy, objectives and their individual responsibilities?

Have we established processes for internal and external communication about environmental matters?

Do we have a documented information control system to manage our environmental documents and records?

Operations

Have we established operational controls and procedures to meet the requirements of our environmental management system?

Do we maintain appropriate control and influence over outsourced processes that affect our environmental performance?

Do we consider environmental requirements in our design processes and control impacts from product transportation, use and end-of-life treatment?

Have we maintained records of our operational planning and controls?

Have we established documented emergency preparedness and response procedures?

Do we test our emergency procedures (such as drills) and evaluate their effectiveness?

Have we maintained records of emergency preparedness tests and any actual emergency responses?

Performance Evaluation

Do we monitor key environmental processes, operational controls and equipment (including calibration requirements)?

Do we measure and evaluate our environmental performance using KPIs and targets?

Have we maintained records of our monitoring and measurement activities and results?

Do we regularly evaluate our compliance with legal requirements and other obligations, and maintain records of these evaluations?

Do we conduct internal audits at planned intervals to verify our environmental management system is effective and properly implemented?

Have we maintained records of our internal audit programs, plans and results?

Does top management review the environmental management system at planned intervals to ensure its continuing suitability and effectiveness?

Have we maintained records of management review meetings and decisions?

Improvement

Do we have processes for reporting, investigating and taking corrective action on environmental non-conformities and incidents?

Have we maintained records of non-conformities, incidents and the corrective actions taken?

Do we continually improve the suitability, adequacy and effectiveness of our environmental management system?

Completed the Checklist? Ready to Get Certified?

After completing this ISO 14001 checklist, contact us for a quote and timeline for your environmental management certification journey. Download the PDF checklist to share with your team.

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ISO 14001:2015 Environment Management Self Assessment Checklist