ISO
14001 2004
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
STANDARD
TRANSLATED INTO PLAIN ENGLISH |
ISO 14001 2004 is an environmental management
standard. It specifies
a set of environmental management requirements
for environmental
management
systems. The purpose of
this standard is to help all
types of organizations to protect
the environment, to prevent
pollution, and to improve their environmental performance.
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ISO 14001 2004
Translated into Plain English.

ISO 14001 presents
environmental management requirements in
section 4. Therefore, the following material begins with
section 4.1.
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ISO 14001 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
REQUIREMENTS |
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4.1 Systemic
requirements |
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Document your environmental management
system
in accordance with the ISO 14001 2004 standard.
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Implement your environmental management
system
in accordance with the ISO 14001 2004 standard.
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Maintain your environmental management
system
in accordance with the ISO 14001 2004 standard.
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Continually improve your environmental
management
system in accordance with the ISO 14001 2004 standard.
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4.2 Policy
requirements |
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4.3 Planning
requirements |
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Establish procedures to identify the
environmental
aspects of your activities, products, and services.
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Implement procedures to identify the
environmental
aspects of your activities, products, and services.
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Document the environmental aspects of
your
organization’s activities, products, and services.
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Maintain procedures to identify the
environmental
aspects of your activities, products, and services.
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Implement procedures to identify and
clarify the legal and other
requirements
that apply to your environmental
aspects.
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Maintain procedures to identify and
clarify the legal and other
requirements
that apply to your environmental
aspects.
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4.4 Operational
requirements |
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4.4.1 Provide resources and establish jobs.
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Provide the resources needed to support
your
organization’s
environmental management system.
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Provide the resources needed to
establish
your environmental management system.
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Provide the resources needed to
implement
your environmental management system.
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Provide the resources needed to
maintain
your environmental management system.
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Provide the resources needed to
improve
your environmental management system.
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Establish environmental management
roles, responsibilities, and authorities.
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Define your environmental management
roles, responsibilities, and authorities.
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Document your environmental
management
roles, responsibilities, and authorities.
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Communicate your environmental
management
roles, responsibilities, and authorities.
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Appoint someone to assume the role
of management representative.
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4.4.2 Deliver training and awareness programs.
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Make sure that people, who perform
tasks that could potentially
have a significant
environmental impact, are in fact competent.
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Establish your environmental training
programs.
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Identify your organization’s
environmental training needs.
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Deliver training programs that meet
your environmental training needs.
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Maintain a record of your
organization’s
environmental training activities.
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Establish a procedure to make people
aware
of your environmental management system.
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4.4.3 Establish communication
procedures.
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4.4.4 Document your environmental management
system.
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4.4.5 Control environmental management
documents.
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Control documents required
by the
ISO 14001 2004 standard.
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Control documents required by your
environmental management system.
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Control your environmental
management system records.
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4.4.6 Control environmentally significant
operations.
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Identify those operations that are
associated with your
organization’s significant
environmental
aspects.
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Establish procedures to manage and
control operational
situations that could have significant
environmental impacts.
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Document your environmental
operational control procedures.
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Implement your environmental
operational control procedures.
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Maintain your environmental
operational control procedures.
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Establish procedures to control the
significant
environmental aspects of the goods and services
provided by your suppliers and contractors.
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4.4.7 Establish an emergency management process.
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Prepare for emergency situations and
accidents that
could have a significant impact on the environment.
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Establish procedures to identify
potential emergency situations
and accidents that could have an impact on the environment.
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Implement procedures to identify
potential emergency
situations and accidents that could have an
impact.
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Maintain procedures to identify
potential emergency
situations and accidents that could have an impact
on the environment.
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Establish procedures to respond
to actual emergency situations
and accidents that have an impact on the environment.
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Implement procedures to respond to
actual emergency
situations and accidents that have an impact.
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Maintain procedures to respond to
actual emergency
situations and accidents that have an impact on the
environment.
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Test your environmental emergency
response procedures.
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Respond to actual environmental
emergencies and accidents.
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Prevent or mitigate the adverse
environmental impacts
that emergencies and accidents can and do cause.
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Review and revise your environmental
emergency
preparedness and response procedures.
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4.5
Checking
requirements |
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4.5.1 Establish monitoring and measurement
capabilities.
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Establish procedures to monitor and measure
the operational characteristics that could have
a significant impact on the environment.
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Use calibrated or verified
environmental
monitoring and measuring equipment.
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Maintain your organization’s
environmental
monitoring and measuring equipment.
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Keep a record of your environmental
monitoring and measuring activities.
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4.5.2 Evaluate legal and other compliance.
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4.5.2.1
Evaluate compliance with legal requirements.
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Establish a procedure to periodically evaluate
how well your organization complies with all
relevant legal environmental requirements.
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Implement a procedure to periodically evaluate
how well your
organization complies with all relevant
legal environmental
requirements.
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Maintain a procedure to periodically evaluate
how well your
organization complies with all
relevant legal environmental
requirements.
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Record the results of your
organization's
legal environmental compliance evaluations.
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4.5.2.2
Evaluate compliance with other requirements.
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Establish a procedure to periodically
evaluate how well your
organization complies with other environmental requirements.
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Implement a procedure to periodically
evaluate
how well your
organization complies with other
environmental requirements.
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Maintain a procedure to periodically
evaluate
how well your
organization complies with other
environmental requirements.
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Record the results of your
organization's other
environmental compliance evaluations.
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4.5.3 Deal with your nonconformities.
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4.5.4 Control your environmental
records.
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4.5.5 Perform
internal environmental management
audits.
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Plan the development of an internal
environmental management audit program.
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Establish your environmental management
audit program.
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Establish an environmental management
audit procedure.
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Conduct internal audits of
environmental
management system.
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Report internal audit results to your
organization’s management.
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4.6 Review
requirements |
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Perform environmental management reviews.
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Assess opportunities for improvement.
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Assess whether or not your
environmental
management system should be changed.
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Assess whether or not your
organization’s
environmental policy should be changed.
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Assess whether or not your
organization’s
environmental objectives should be changed.
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Assess whether or not your
organization’s
environmental targets should be changed.
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Keep a record of your environmental
reviews.
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