• Establish an environmental management system that complies with the ISO 14001 2004 standard.

• Document your environmental management system in accordance with the standard.           

• Implement your environmental management system in accordance with the standard.         

• Maintain your environmental management system in accordance with the standard.             

• Improve your environmental management system in accordance with the standard.                 

• Establish your organization’s environmental policy.

  • Define your organization’s environmental policy.

  • Document your organization’s environmental policy.

  • Implement your organization’s environmental policy.

  • Maintain your organization’s environmental policy.

  • Communicate your organization’s environmental policy.

• 4.3.1 Identify your environmental aspects.

• Establish procedures to identify the environmental aspects of your activities, products, and services.

• Implement procedures to identify the environmental aspects of your activities, products, and services.

• Document the environmental aspects of your aspects of your activities, products, and services.

• Maintain procedures to identify the environmental aspects of your activities, products, and services.

• 4.3.2 Clarify legal and other requirements.

  • Establish procedures to identify and clarify the legal and other requirements that apply to your organization’s environmental aspects.

• Implement procedures to identify and clarify the legal and other requirements that apply to your environmental aspects.

• Maintain procedures to identify and clarify the legal and other requirements that apply to your environmental aspects.

• 4.3.3 Establish objectives and programs.

  • Establish environmental objectives and targets.

    • Implement environmental objectives and targets.

    • Maintain environmental objectives and targets.

  • Establish programs to achieve your organization's environmental objectives and targets.                     

    • Implement programs to achieve your environmental objectives and targets.            

    • Maintain programs to achieve your environmental objectives and targets.                   

• 4.4.1 Provide resources and establish jobs.

  • Provide the resources needed to support your organization’s environmental management system.

    • Provide the resources needed to establish your environmental management system.

    • Provide the resources needed to implement your environmental management system.

    • Provide the resources needed to maintain your environmental management system.

    • Provide the resources needed to improve your environmental management system.

  • Establish environmental management roles, responsibilities, and authorities.               

    • Define your environmental management roles, responsibilities, and authorities.               

    • Document your environmental management roles, responsibilities, and authorities.               

    • Communicate your environmental management roles, responsibilities, and authorities.               

  • Appoint someone to assume the role of management representative.                                            

• 4.4.2 Deliver training and awareness programs.

  • Make sure that people, who perform tasks that could potentially have a significant environmental impact, are in fact competent.

  • Establish your environmental training programs.

    • Identify your organization’s environmental training needs.                              

    • Deliver training programs that meet your environmental training needs.                    

    • Maintain a record of your organization’s environmental training activities.                 

  • Establish a procedure to make people aware of your environmental management system.

    • Implement your environmental awareness procedure.

    • Maintain your environmental awareness procedure.

• 4.4.3 Establish communication procedures.

  • Establish a procedure to control your organization’s internal environmental communications.           

    • Implement your organization’s internal environmental communications procedure.           

    • Maintain your organization’s internal environmental communications procedure.            

  • Establish a procedure to control your organization’s external environmental communications.               

    • Implement your organization’s external environmental communications procedure.            

    • Maintain your organization’s external environmental communications procedure.           

• 4.4.4 Document your environmental management system.

  • Document your organization’s environmental policy.

  • Document your organization’s environmental objectives.

  • Document your organization’s environmental targets.

  • Document the scope of environmental management system.

  • Document the main parts of environmental management system.

    • Describe how the parts of your organization's environmental management system interact.

• 4.4.5 Control environmental management documents.

  • Control documents required by the ISO 14001 2004 standard.                                          

  • Control documents required by your environmental management system.                               

  • Control your environmental management system records.                                            

• 4.4.6 Control environmentally significant operations.

  • Identify those operations that are associated with your organization’s significant environmental aspects.

  • Establish procedures to manage and control operational situations that could have significant environmental impacts.

    • Document your environmental operational control procedures.                           

    • Implement your environmental operational control procedures.                           

    • Maintain your  environmental operational control procedures.                           

  • Establish procedures to control the significant            environmental aspects of the goods and services         provided by your suppliers and contractors.

    • Implement your environmental supplier and contractor control procedures.                  

    • Maintain your environmental supplier and contractor control procedures.                      

• 4.4.7 Establish an emergency management process.

  • Prepare for emergency situations and accidents that could have a significant impact on the environment.

  • Establish procedures to identify potential emergency situations and accidents that could have an impact on the environment.

    • Implement procedures to identify potential emergency situations and accidents that could have an impact.

    • Maintain procedures to identify potential emergency situations and accidents that could have an impact on the environment.                                          

  • Establish procedures to respond to actual emergency situations and accidents that have an impact on the environment.

    • Implement procedures to respond to actual emergency situations and accidents that have an impact.

    • Maintain procedures to respond to actual emergency situations and accidents that have an impact on the environment.                                    

  • Test your environmental emergency response procedures.

  • Respond to actual environmental emergencies and accidents.

  • Prevent or mitigate the adverse environmental impacts that emergencies and accidents can and do cause.

  • Review and revise your environmental emergency preparedness and response procedures.                

• 4.5.1 Establish monitoring and measurement capabilities.

  • Establish procedures to monitor and measure the operational characteristics that could have a significant impact on the environment.     

    • Implement your organization's environmental monitoring and measuring procedures.        

    • Maintain your organization's environmental monitoring and measuring procedures.        

  • Use calibrated or verified environmental monitoring and measuring equipment.            

  • Maintain your organization’s environmental monitoring and measuring equipment.              

  • Keep a record of your environmental monitoring and measuring activities.               

• 4.5.2 Evaluate legal and other compliance.

• 4.5.2.1 Evaluate compliance with legal requirements.

  • Establish a procedure to periodically evaluate how well your organization complies with all relevant legal environmental requirements.

    • Implement a procedure to periodically evaluate how well your organization complies with all relevant legal environmental requirements.                    

    • Maintain a procedure to periodically evaluate how well your organization complies with all relevant legal environmental requirements.

  • Record the results of your organization's legal environmental compliance evaluations.        

• 4.5.2.2 Evaluate compliance with other requirements.

  • Establish a procedure to periodically evaluate how well your organization complies with other environmental requirements.

    • Implement a procedure to periodically evaluate how well your organization complies with other environmental requirements.                            

    • Maintain a procedure to periodically evaluate how well your organization complies with other environmental requirements.                  

  • Record the results of your organization's other environmental compliance evaluations.                    

• 4.5.3 Deal with your nonconformities.

  • Establish nonconformance management procedures.

    • Implement nonconformance management procedures.

    • Maintain nonconformance management procedures.

  • Change documents when nonconformities make it necessary.

• 4.5.4 Control your environmental records.

  • Establish environmental records for your organization.

  • Establish procedures to control your environmental records.

    • Implement procedures to control environmental records.

    • Maintain procedures to control environmental records.

• 4.5.5 Perform internal environmental management audits.

  • Plan the development of an internal environmental management audit program.                 

  • Establish your environmental management audit program.

    • Implement your internal environmental management audit program.                             

    • Maintain your internal environmental management audit program.                            

  • Establish an environmental management audit procedure.

    • Implement your internal environmental management audit procedure.                            

    • Maintain your internal environmental management audit procedure.                      

  • Conduct internal audits of environmental management system.                        

  • Report internal audit results to your organization’s management.                         

• Perform environmental management reviews.

  • Review the suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness of your environmental management system.             

• Assess opportunities for improvement.

  • Assess whether or not your environmental management system should be changed.

  • Assess whether or not your organization’s environmental policy should be changed.

  • Assess whether or not your organization’s environmental objectives should be changed.

  • Assess whether or not your organization’s environmental targets should be changed.

• Keep a record of your environmental reviews.