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Environmental aspects and impact vs risk assessment

Is evaluating aspects and its impact on environment and using a meaningful ranking system to identify the significant aspect and focus on taking actions to eliminate or mitigate the impacts on environment caused by the significant aspects same as identifying the risks that adversely affect the outcome of a Quality Management System and putting actions in place or in reserve to eliminate or mitigate its impact on QMS?

Control of External Providers

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Identifying all environmental aspects

How to best identify "all" my environmental aspects?

Enfoque del ciclo de vida en el SGA

El ciclo de vida se trata de un enfoque sistemático dentro del Sistema de Gestión Ambiental en el que deben de considerarse todos los procesos sobre los que la organización tiene control o influencia, desde la adquisición de la materia prima, pasando por el transporte del producto, la realización del producto o servicio y finalmente la entrega al consumidor y posterior eliminación. Esta perspectiva debe de ser empleada para el análisis de los aspectos ambientales significativos en cada una de las etapas del ciclo de vida para poder llevar las acciones necesarias que permitan la mitigación del impacto sobre el medio ambiente.

El análisis del ciclo de vida puede ser un análisis simple, lo importante es poder detectar todos los procesos y sus interrelaciones para posteriormente determinar los aspectos ambientales de cada uno de ellos.  ISO ha desarrollado una serie de normas enfocados en la gestión  ambiental, los cuales se incluyen en la ISO 14044:2016 y la ISO 14040:2016 que pueden ayudarle a llevar a cabo el análisis del ciclo de vida en un SGA.

Para más información sobre el ciclo de vida en el SGA, vea los siguientes materiales: 

- Artículo - How does product lyfe cycle influence environmental aspects according to ISO 14001:2015: https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2016/03/21/how-does-product-life-cycle-influence-environmental-aspects-according-to-iso-140012015/

- Lifecycle perspective in ISO 14001:2015: what does it mean?: https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2017/02/20/lifecycle-perspective-in-iso-140012015-what-does-it-mean/

- Curso gratuito - Fundamentos ISO 14001:2015:  https://advisera.com/training/es/course/curso-fundamentos-iso-14001/

-  Libro - The ISO 14001:2015 companion: https://advisera.com/books/the-iso-14001-2015-companion/

ISO 14001 implementation and monitoring

These policies can be translated into procedures, into training, into visual management aides, into new investments, into measuring and monitorization plans, into …

The implementation of these policies can be monitored, for example, through internal audits, through inspection plans, through measuring and monitoring plans, through compliance obligations verification plans. Please consider the “check” phase in this article - Plan-Do-Check-Act in the ISO 14001 standard - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/plan-do-check-act-in-the-iso-14001-standard/

Please consider these sources of information:

• Article – Using internal audits to drive real improvement in ISO 14001:2015 - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/using-internal-audits-to-drive-real-improvement-in-iso-140012015/
• Article - How to organize a training program for ISO 14001 - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/10/08/iso-14001-training-program-organize-it-in-6-simple-steps/
• Free webinar on demand - How to use a Documentation Toolkit for the implementation of ISO 14001 - https://advisera.com/14001academy/webinar/how-to-use-a-documentation-toolkit-for-the-implementation-of-iso-14001-free-webinar-on-demand/
• Enroll for free in this course – ISO 14001:2015 Foundations Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-14001-internal-auditor-course/
• Book – The ISO 14001:2015 Companion - https://advisera.com/books/the-iso-14001-2015-companion/

ISO 9001 in the Pharmaceutical industry

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ISO 14001 in relation to International Financial Institution

This topic is included in clauses 4.2, 5.2 and 6.

Clause 4.2 b) is about the relevant needs and expectations of the relevant interested parties.

Clause 5.2 d) is about the commitment to comply with compliance obligations

Clause 6.1.3 is about determining the organizations’ compliance obligations related with its environmental aspects

Through clause 4.2 your organization determines relevant parties and their relevant requirements. Let us consider just two relevant interested parties

Both Government and the International Financial Institution have requirements that we can call compliance obligations. Government has legislation and the International Financial Institution has a signed contract.

Let us consider four alternative scenarios about requirements from both interested parties:

In scenario 1 – contract requirements are included in legislation – your organization must comply with legislation and in doing so complies with the contract requirements

In scenario 2 – contract requirements are more demanding than legislation – your organization must comply with contract requirements and in doing so complies with the legislation.

In scenario 3 – there are some contract requirements not included or more demanding than legislation - your organization must comply with legislation and with the extra requirements from the contract.

In scenario 4 – contract requirements are much more demanding than legislation but there are some requirements in legislation not included in the contract - your organization must comply with contract requirements and with the extra requirements from legislation.

You can find more information about ISO 14001:2015 below:

• Understanding the needs & expectations of interested parties in ISO 14001 - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2017/04/03/understanding-the-needs-expectations-of-interested-parties-in-iso-14001/
• Compliance requirements according to ISO 14001:2015 – What has changed? - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2015/09/14/compliance-requirements-according-to-iso-140012015-what-has-changed/
• Enroll for free in this course – ISO 14001:2015 Foundations Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-14001-internal-auditor-course/ 
• Book – The ISO 14001:2015 Companion - https://advisera.com/books/the-iso-14001-2015-companion/

ISO 14001 implementation in a small company

Start with a self-assessment compliance checklist to list the initial gaps between ISO 14001:2015 requirements and your organization’s current environmental practices and performance. As long as you have top management support, any sound environmental management system starts with a clear identification of environmental aspects and impacts and its evaluation, and with an identification of any compliance obligations. Then, you have to plan your implementation project about how to improve environmental aspects situations and meet your environmental objectives aligned with an environmental policy. If you are in a hurry to implement your environmental management system, perhaps our ISO 14001:2015 Documentation Toolkit - https://advisera.com/14001academy/iso-14001-documentation-toolkit/ can be useful.

Please check this information below with more detailed answers:

• How to use an ISO 14001 self-assessment compliance checklist - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/12/04/iso-14001-self-assessment-checklist-how-to-use-it/
• List of ISO 14001 implementation steps - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/list-of-iso-14001-implementation-steps/
• Project checklist for ISO 14001 implementation - https://info.advisera.com/14001academy/free-download/project-checklist-for-iso-14001-implementation
• ISO 14001:2015 Implementation diagram - https://info.advisera.com/14001academy/free-download/iso-14001-2015-implementation-diagram
• Article - Environmental aspect identification and classification - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/environmental-aspect-identification-and-classification/
• Article - Catalogue of environmental aspects - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/catalogue-of-environmental-aspects/
• Free webinar on demand - How to use a Documentation Toolkit for the implementation of ISO 14001 - https://advisera.com/14001academy/webinar/how-to-use-a-documentation-toolkit-for-the-implementation-of-iso-14001-free-webinar-on-demand/
• Enroll for free in this course – ISO 14001:2015 Foundations Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-14001-internal-auditor-course/
• Book – The ISO 14001:2015 Companion - https://advisera.com/books/the-iso-14001-2015-companion/
   

Environmental strategic risk and operational risk

How can environmental strategic risk be integrated with operational risk in environmental risk register?

Supplier Security Program (Annex A 15 Supplier Relationships)

Besides those classified as high risk or critical, for the identification of these suppliers you must consider:

• the ISMS scope, i.e., the suppliers that can affect the information you want to protect
• the legal requirements (e.g., laws, regulations and contract) you must comply to (for example, a contractual clause with a customer may require a specific supplier or suppliers to be included in the program)

If a supplier does not fall in one of the above-mentioned situations, then you do not need to include it in your supplier management program related to information security.

This article will provide you a further explanation about supplier management:

• 6-step process for handling supplier security according to ISO 27001 https://advisera.com/27001academy/blog/2014/06/30/6-step-process-for-handling-supplier-security-according-to-iso-27001/