The ISO 14001:2015 Companion
A Straightforward Guide to Implementing an EMS in a Small Business
Garry Cornell
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The ISO 14001:2015 Companion
A Straightforward Guide to Implementing an EMS in a Small Business
Garry Cornell
Informazioni sul libro
Garry Cornell has more than 25 years' experience working in Environmental Management as a senior manager, consultant, and certification auditor. He has worked with businesses internationally, in a range of different industries, helping them to implement and improve their environmental management standards.
This book aims to give you an explanation of what is typically required by the ISO 14001 standard, taking technical terminology and "Standard Speak" and interpreting it into something understandable.
Although this book is written primarily for people who are new to environmental management, or new to implementing ISO 14001, it can be used by a much wider audience.
The book was written for those of you who will take responsibility for driving the development of environmental management in your business. This book can also be used if you are an auditor, especially an internal auditor, to understand more about what you should expect to find in a good EMS. It provides advice on how to conduct internal audits, but you can also refer to different sections to understand what the clauses of the standard really expect from the business. If you are a CEO or CTO, this book will help you to understand what sort of commitment is required to implement ISO 14001. It will also show you how to turn that initial thought into reality within your business, including the costs and benefits you will likely see in return.
This book is also useful to those who have more experience in environmental management, because the changes in the ISO 14001:2015 version are explained throughout this book. In addition to containing a section dedicated to understanding the changes, the book was written to reflect what the new standard requires and how to implement those changes. Consultants can also gain knowledge from the explanation of the changes in the ISO 14001:2015 standard and, because the book not only explains what should happen, it also provides ideas and techniques for how to make those things happen. This will help you guide your clients through some of the human issues they might encounter when trying to drive change, in addition to the technicalities. Although the book guides you through the certification process, you can use this book whether or not you are planning certification. Maybe you just want to benefit from better environmental management, and from implementing a really good EMS.
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Why environmental management? Why ISO 14001?
1.2 Basic environmental management principles
- Land – the soil. Impacts include land contamination from chemicals.
- Air – the atmosphere. Impacts include CO2 emissions, dust emissions, solvent emissions, etc.
- Water – rivers, groundwater and aquifers, lakes, streams, seas, oceans. Impacts include the use of water, and the pollution of water.
- Direct – your business activities directly cause the impact, for example the release of emissions from a chimney, spillage of chemicals into a river, etc.
- Indirect – it’s because of your business that the impacts occur, but you don’t do it yourself, for example CO2 emissions from electricity generation. You use the electricity, but the electricity company releases the CO2.
- Control – this is where you or your business have direct control over what happens, and you can make decisions that will change what happens. For example, you can control what your staff do, or what your contractors do.
- Influence – this is where your business can exert some influence over what happens, and can try to make change happen somewhere else. For example, you can influence what your suppliers do, or what your customers do.
- Prepare – this is where your business has no control or influence at all, but would need to prepare for or respond to an incident to prevent it from causing an environmental impact. An example might be illegal dumping of waste on your site, where you have no control to prevent it from happening, but will need to deal with the consequences. Another example might be how you prepare to respond to changes in the climate, such as flooding.
1.3 Purpose of ISO 14001
- is not caught out by any legal requirement or anything else you said you would do
- benefits from reducing its impact on the environment (including short- and long-term financial benefits)
- reduces its risks due to poor environmental management
Indice dei contenuti
- COVER
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. WHAT EXACTLY IS ISO 14001?
- 3. GETTING SUPPORT FROM YOUR MANAGEMENT AND OTHER EMPLOYEES
- 4. PREPARING FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION
- 5. FIRST STEPS IN THE PROJECT
- 6. RESEARCH AND PLANNING
- 7. BASIC FOUNDATIONS
- 8. ENVIRONMENTAL OPERATIONAL CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
- 9. MANAGING TYPICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND IMPACTS
- 10. MAKING SURE YOUR EMS IS WORKING AS EXPECTED
- 11. ENSURING YOUR COMPANY PASSES THE CERTIFICATION AUDIT
- 12. INTEGRATION WITH OTHER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES
- 13. TRANSITION FROM ISO 14001:2004 TO ISO 14001:2015
- APPENDIX A – CHECKLIST OF MANDATORY DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED BY ISO 14001:2015
- APPENDIX B – ISO 14001:2015 IMPLEMENTATION DIAGRAM
- APPENDIX C – ISO 14001:2015 VS. ISO 14001:2004 MATRIX
- APPENDIX D – TEMPLATE: PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR ISO 14001:2014 IMPLEMENTATION
- APPENDIX E – PROJECT CHECKLIST FOR ISO 14001:2015 IMPLEMENTATION
- APPENDIX F – PROJECT PLAN TEMPLATE FOR ISO 14001:2015 IMPLEMENTATION
- APPENDIX G – LIST OF QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR ISO 14001 CONSULTANT
- APPENDIX H – LIST OF QUESTIONS TO ASK AN ISO 14001 CERTIFICATION BODY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY