ISO 14001 2004 Environmental Gap Analysis Tool

Our Gap Analysis Tool will tell you what you need to do to comply with
the ISO 14001 2004 standard. Our tool will pinpoint the GAPS that exist
between the new standard and your current practices. Once you know
exactly where your gaps are, you can take steps to fill them. By using
this approach, you will not only comply with the new ISO 14001
standard, but you will also improve the overall performance
of your environmental management system.

If you're currently ISO 14001 1996 certified, you can use our
Gap Analysis Tool to upgrade your quality management
system to the new ISO 14001 2004 standard.

Our ISO 14001 2004 Gap Analysis Tool is easy to understand and
ready to use. It is focused, detailed, and complete. We guarantee it!

Overview of our ISO 14001 2004 Gap Analysis Tool
The following material will introduce our ISO 14001 2004 Gap Analysis Tool.
However, we will not present the complete product. Instead, we will show
you how our Gap Analysis Tool is organized and how it is used. In addition,
we will show you some examples of our approach. Once you've examined
our approach, we hope you'll consider purchasing our complete
ISO 14001 2004 Environmental Management Gap Analysis Tool.

PART	TABLE OF CONTENTS	PAGE
1	Profile of Gap Analysis Project	3
2	Explanation of Gap Analysis Process	4
3	Environmental Concepts and Definitions	5
4	GAP ANALYSIS QUESTIONNAIRES	12
4.1	Systemic Gap Analysis Questionnaire	12
4.2	Policy Gap Analysis Questionnaire	13
4.3	Planning Gap Analysis Questionnaire	15
4.4	Operational Gap Analysis Questionnaire	20
4.5	Checking Gap Analysis Questionnaire	34
4.6	Review Gap Analysis Questionnaire	43
5	Legal and Contact Information	46
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Our gap analysis tool will allow you to compare your current
environmental management practices with ISO's new ISO 14001 2004
environmental management standard. This comparison will pinpoint
the areas that fall short of the new standard (the gaps). Once you
know where to focus your attention, you can begin to make the
changes that are needed to comply with the new ISO standard.

Our gap analysis process consists of one questionnaire with
351 questions, one for each of the requirements that make up
the ISO 14001 2004 standard. For each question, two answers are possible: Yes or No. A Yes answer means you’re in compliance with
the standard while a No answer means you’re not in compliance.
No answers reveal gaps that exist between the ISO 14001 2004
standard and your organization’s practices.

Whenever a No answer reveals a gap, the task of filling the gap
must be assigned to someone. In addition, you need to be able to
keep track of when the work started and when it was finished. The
last three columns on the right side of our questionnaire can be used
to record this information and to control your gap analysis project.
Once all the work has been completed and every gap has been filled,
you can be assured that your environmental management system
complies with the ISO 14001 2004 standard.

The following example will show you what our
Gap Analysis Tool looks like. This example is taken from
4.3 Environmental Planning Gap Analysis Questionnaire.

ISO 14001 2004 GAP ANALYSIS TOOL
4.3 ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING QUESTIONNAIRE
4.3.1 IDENTIFY YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS		ANSWERS		ASSIGNED TASK TO	START DATE	FINISH DATE
1	Have you established procedures to identify the environmental aspects of your activities, products, and services?	YES	NO
2	Do your procedures focus on the activities, products, and services that fall within the boundaries (scope) of your environmental management system?	YES	NO
3	Do your procedures help you to identify the environmental aspects of current activities, products, and services?	YES	NO
4	Do your procedures help you to identify the environmental aspects of planned activities, products, and services?	YES	NO
5	Do your procedures help you to identify those environmental aspects that your organization can directly control?	YES	NO
6	Do your procedures help you to identify those environmental aspects that your organization could influence indirectly?	YES	NO
7	Do your procedures help you to pinpoint significant environmental aspects, those that currently have or could have a significant impact on the environment?	YES	NO
8	Have you implemented procedures to identify the environmental aspects of your activities, products, and services?	YES	NO
9	*Do you use your procedures to identify the environmental aspects of your activities?*	YES	NO
10	*Do you use your procedures to identify the environmental aspects of your products?*	YES	NO
11	*Do you use your procedures to identify the environmental aspects of your services?*	YES	NO
12	Have you documented the environmental aspects of your organization’s activities?	YES	NO
13	Have you documented the environmental aspects of your organization’s products?	YES	NO
14	Have you documented the environmental aspects of your organization’s services?	YES	NO
15	Do you keep your environmental aspect documents up to date?	YES	NO
16	Did you consider significant environmental aspects when you established your environmental management system?	YES	NO
17	Did you consider significant environmental aspects when you implemented your environmental management system?	YES	NO
18	Do you consider significant environmental aspects as you maintain your environmental management system?	YES	NO
19	Do you maintain procedures to identify the environmental aspects of your activities, products, and services?	YES	NO
4.3.2 CLARIFY LEGAL AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS
20	Have you established procedures to identify and clarify the legal and other requirements that apply to your organization’s environmental aspects?	YES	NO
21	Do your procedures help you to determine how legal and other requirements apply to your environmental aspects?	YES	NO
22	Have you implemented procedures to identify and clarify the legal and other requirements that apply to your environmental aspects?	YES	NO
23	Do you maintain procedures to identify and clarify the legal and other requirements that apply to your environmental aspects?	YES	NO
24	*Did you consider all relevant legal and other requirements when you established* your environmental management system?**	YES	NO
25	*Did you consider all relevant legal and other requirements when you implemented* your environmental management system?**	YES	NO
26	Do you consider all relevant legal and other requirements as you maintain your environmental management system?	YES	NO
4.3.3 ESTABLISH OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAMS
27	Have you established environmental objectives and targets for your organization?	YES	NO
28	Have you established environmental objectives and targets for all relevant functions within your organization?	YES	NO
29	Have you established environmental objectives and targets at all relevant levels within your organization?	YES	NO
30	Are your environmental objectives and targets measurable (whenever possible)?	YES	NO
31	Are your objectives and targets consistent with your organization’s environmental policy?	YES	NO
32	Do your objectives and targets include a commitment to pollution prevention?	YES	NO
33	Do your environmental objectives and targets include a commitment to comply with all relevant legal and other requirements?	YES	NO
34	Do your environmental objectives and targets include a commitment to continual improvement?	YES	NO
35	Do your environmental objectives and targets address the legal and other requirements and obligations that your organization must meet?	YES	NO
36	Do your environmental objectives and targets address significant environmental aspects?	YES	NO
37	Do your environmental objectives and targets consider your technological options?	YES	NO
38	Do your environmental objectives and targets consider your financial requirements?	YES	NO
39	Do your environmental objectives and targets consider your operational requirements?	YES	NO
40	Do your environmental objectives and targets consider your business requirements?	YES	NO
41	Do your environmental objectives and targets consider the views of interested parties?	YES	NO
42	*Have you implemented* your organization’s environmental objectives and targets?**	YES	NO
43	Do you maintain your organization’s environmental objectives and targets?	YES	NO
44	Have you established programs to achieve your environmental objectives and targets?	YES	NO
45	Do your environmental programs allocate the responsibility for achieving your environmental objectives and targets?	YES	NO
46	Have you allocated the responsibility for achieving environmental objectives and targets to all relevant functions within your organization?	YES	NO
47	Have you allocated the responsibility for achieving environmental objectives and targets at all relevant levels within your organization?	YES	NO
48	Do your environmental programs describe how your environmental objectives and targets will be achieved?	YES	NO
49	Do your environmental programs specify time schedules for achieving your environmental objectives and targets?	YES	NO
50	Have you implemented programs to achieve your environmental objectives and targets?	YES	NO
51	Do you maintain programs to achieve your environmental objectives and targets?	YES	NO
52	Etcetera...

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