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ISO 14001 DOCUMENTATION TOOLKIT

Step-by-step implementation for smaller companies.

ISO 14001 DOCUMENTATION TOOLKIT

Step-by-step implementation for smaller companies.

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Carlos Pereira da Cruz Jun 08, 2020

ISO 14001:2015 no longer mentions “environmental management programs”. However, organization scan still use the concept.

Based on strategic orientation and on its significant environmental aspects and impacts, organizations write an environmental policy with a set of commitments. Policy commitments are just words. Words that must be translated into a set of environmental objectives. Meeting the environmental objectives demands transforming the organization with a set of action plans. One can say that an environmental management program is a set of action plans in order to meet the environmental management system objectives.

For example, last year I worked with an organization that had two noncompliance concerning legislation:

  • No monitoring of air emissions and non-approved version of chimney;
  • No monitoring of environmental sound

Each one of these noncompliance situations gave origin to a specific action plan. The set of those two action plans could be called an environmental management program to deal with legislation. Another was about dealing with wastes, with two major individual action plans, one for wastes, and another for hazardous wastes.

Please check below information about ISO 14001:2015:

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