![]() ![]() This International Standard specifies requirements for an environmental management system to enable an organization to develop and implement a policy and objectives which take into account legal requirements and information about significant environmental aspects. Now, the author has attempted through this document to present an easily understandable version of the standard ISO 14001:2015 for the use of all concerned, specially the consultants and auditors.BS EN ISO 14001:2004,Environmental management systems - Requirements with guidance for use. The author has always been trying to address this issue by imparting clarity on the requirements of this Standard through his training programmes. This results in the EMSs in organizations that remain patchy, and maybe not addressing all the wonderfully crafted ‘requirements’ under this Standard, or maybe not addressing all the ‘requirements’ in the desired perspective and with desired equal-weightage. As a result, all the ‘requirements’ under this Standard, their mutual relationships, their intent, their mandated content/coverage, etc, are not clearly understood and appreciated. Latest year 2015 version of the Standard is also no exception. Onetime requirements (eg, to formulate the system) are also at times mixed-up with the continuing requirements (eg, to implement the system). Many diverse ‘requirements’ are sometimes included in single complex sentences. Main reason for this lack of understanding is that the text specifying the ‘requirements’ in this Standard by ISO sometimes uses quite complex syntax, sentence-structures, etc. ![]() The author has always noticed - throughout his 20 years of extensive experience as a management-systems expert, consultant, trainer and auditor - that the users of this Standard, including consultants and auditors, find this Standard quite difficult to fully comprehend, despite the fact that ISO has defined and well explained all the terms used in the Standard. ISO first revised it in 2004 and then again in 2015 using the common ‘clause sequence, text and terminology’ stipulated for all management-system standards under Annex SL, Appendix 2, ISO/IEC Directives, Part 1, Consolidated ISO Supplement, 2014. Standard ISO 14001 has been a widely used management-system standard by ISO, since its first publication in 1996. ![]()
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