20 Is there evidence that environmental aspects of your organizations activities, products and services that it has control over and which it can influence, along with environmental impacts, been determined? 21 Is the life cycle perspective of the identified environmental aspects been considered? 22 Has your organization established criteria that is documented and utilized to determine significant environmental aspects? 23 Are significant environmental aspects communicated among the various levels and functions of the organization? 24 Does your organization have access to, and determine compliance obligations that apply to its environmental aspects? 25 Are compliance obligations considered when operating and improving the EMS? 26 Are compliance obligations documented? 27 Does your organization’s planning takes into consideration actions to address: significant environmental aspects; compliance obligations; risks and opportunities?
7.0 Support Finding Implementation Plan (if No) Yes No ISO Clause Process Owner Action Needed Date Planned Date Actual 34 Does your organization determine and provide resources needed for the establishment, implementation, maintenance and continual improvement of the EMS? 35 Does your organization operate a process to determine necessary competence, training and documented information to support the EMS? 36 Does documented information support the awareness of persons working under your organization’s control of environmental policy; significant environmental aspects; their contribution toward an effective EMS; understanding the benefits of enhanced environmental performance and implications of not conforming with EMS and fulfilling compliance obligations? 37 Has your organization established and implemented processes for internal and external communications relevant to the EMS?
38 When planning its communications process, does your organization take into account its compliance obligations; ensure that environmental information communicated is consistent with information generated within the EMS and is reliable? 39 Does the communication process enable employees or externals to contribute to continual improvement? 40 Does your organization communicate externally information relevant to EMS, as established by its communication process and as required by its compliance obligations? 41 Does your organization’s EMS include all documented information required by the ISO 14001:2015 standard, and the information determined by the organization itself as necessary for the effectiveness of the EMS? 42 When creating and updating documented information, is it appropriately identified, formatted and described? 43 Is the documented information reviewed and approved for suitability and adequacy?
48 Does your organization plan, implement and control the processes needed to meet EMS requirements and to implement the actions determined in 6.1 and 6.2? 49 Does your organization control planned changes, and review the consequences of unintended changes, and take action to mitigate any adverse effects, as necessary? 50 Does your organization ensure that outsourced processes are controlled or influenced? 51 Does your organization control processes consistent with achieving a life cycle perspective? 52 Does your organization ensure that documented information is maintained to the extent necessary to give confidence that the processes have been carried out as planned?
55 Does your organization have an effective process for evaluation of compliance obligations fulfilment? 56 Does your organization retain appropriate documented information as evidence of the monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation results? 57 Does your organization undertake programmed internal auditing to ensure that the EMS is implemented and maintained, and is compliant with our own requirements and those of ISO 14001:2015? 58 Does your organization retain documented information as evidence of the implementation of the audit programme and the audit results? 59 Does your organization undertake scheduled management reviews to consider the items required by ISO 14001:2015? 60 Does the output include conclusion related to continued suitability, adequacy and effectiveness of EMS?