ISO14001 Implementation Guide
Start
Obtain management commitment
Define scope and context of the EMS
Plan the project
Environmental aspects and impacts assessment
Environmental Policy
EMS objectives and overall management system
Risk and Opportunity Assessment
Roles, responsibilities and authorities
Operational processes
External audit stage one
Management review
Internal auditing
External audit stage two (certification)
Finish
Figure 1: Overall environmental management system implementation order
Once a project manager has been appointed, the project has been planned and started, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on the gap assessment you carried out earlier and update it as you continue your journey towards certification. This updated measurement of your closeness to complete conformity with the standard can be included as part of your regular progress/highlight reports and the CertiKit ISO14001 Toolkit includes a template for such reports. The timing of when to go for certification really depends upon your degree of urgency (for example you may need evidence of certification for a commercial bid or tender) and how ready you believe the organization to be. Certainly, you will need to be able to show that all
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