ISO 14001:2015 - Environmental Management System

Introduction Video about the course

Basic terms

Requirement of ISO 14001:2015

aspect and impact study

Significant aspect and impact study

Planning of actions

Examples

Requirement as per ISO 14001:2015 Clause No. 6.1.2

The organization shall maintain documented information of its:

— environmental aspects and associated environmental impacts;

— criteria used to determine its significant environmental aspects;

— significant environmental aspects

In this Lecture i have provided the Basic terms and definitions of all terms which was used in aspect and impacts

Basic terms

Intended outcomes of an EMS

Environmental Performance : performance related to the management of environmental aspects

Environment : surroundings in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interrelationships

Environmental Aspect : surroundings in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interrelationships

Environmental condition: state or characteristic of the environment as determined at a certain point in time

Environmental Impact : change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organization’s environmental aspects

In this lecture I've provided the process description and how can we perform Mass balancing diagram and how can we convert all the input, activities, outputs into aspects

Examples

design and development of its facilities, processes, products and services;

acquisition of raw materials, including extraction;

operational or manufacturing processes, including warehousing;

operation and maintenance of facilities, organizational assets and infrastructure;

environmental performance and practices of external providers;

product transportation and service delivery, including packaging;

storage, use and end‐of‐life treatment of products;

waste management, including reuse, refurbishing, recycling and disposal.

In this lecture i have give the pollutant details and how can we determine impacts and how can we rating all significant aspects.

Significant impacts

Environmental criteria are the primary and minimum criteria for assessing environmental aspects. Criteria can relate to the environmental aspect (e.g. type, size, frequency) or the environmental impact (e.g. scale, severity, duration, exposure).

An environmental aspect might not be significant when only considering environmental criteria. It can, however, reach or exceed the threshold for determining significance when other criteria are considered. These other criteria can include organizational issues, such as legal requirements or interested party concerns. These other criteria are not intended to be used to downgrade an aspect that is significant based on its environmental impact.

Here i have explained about the planning of actions for significant aspects

When planning actions the organization shall consider;

establishing environmental objectives / management programmes

identifying the need for operational controls and for what purpose?

establish types and level of controls

Review of existing controls / proposing additional controls; (E.S.E.A.P)

Elimination

Substitution

Engineering Controls

Administrative Controls / signage

PPEs

With focus to protecting the environment – prevention of pollution & other specific commitment(s)