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Audit Title

Client / Site

Conducted on 

Prepared by

Location 

Introduction

Please complete all sections starting immediately below. This internal self-assessment
will evaluate the compliance of your Environmental Management System with ISO
14001:2015. Remember to attach evidence to items where required, and to sign off and
complete this assessment at the end.

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4.1 General requirements

Has the organization established and maintained an environmental management

system consistent with the requirements contained in ISO 14001?

Yes No N/A

4.2 Environmental Policy

Has top management defined the organization’s environmental policy?<br>

Yes No N/A

Is the environmental policy appropriate to the nature, scale, and environmental impacts
of the organization’s activities, products, or services?<br>

Yes No N/A

Does the environmental policy include a commitment to continual improvement and

prevention of pollution?<br>

Yes No N/A

Does the environmental policy include a commitment to comply with relevant

environmental legislation and regulations and with other requirements to which the
organization subscribes?<br>

Yes No N/A

Does the environmental policy provide a framework for setting and reviewing
environmental objectives and targets?<br>

Yes No N/A

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Is the environmental policy documented,implemented, and maintained and

communicated to all employees?<br>

Yes No N/A

Is the environmental policy available to the public?

Yes No N/A

4.3 PLANNING

4.3.1 Environmental aspects

Has the organization established and maintained (a) procedure(s) to identify the
environmental aspects of its activities,products, or services that it can control and over
which it can be expected to have an influence?<br>

Yes No N/A

Has the organization determined which of its aspects have a significant impact on the
environment?<br>

Yes No N/A

Has the organization ensured that its aspects and related significant impacts are
considered in setting its environmental objectives?<br>

Yes No N/A

Does the organization periodically update information regarding its aspects and
significant impacts?

Yes No N/A

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4.3.2 Legal and other requirements

Has the organization established and maintained a procedure to identify and have
access to legal and other requirements to which the organization subscribes, that are
applicable to the environmental aspects of its activities, products, or services?

Yes No N/A

4.3.3 Objectives and targets

Has the organization established and maintained documented environmental objectives

and targets, at each relevant function and level within the organization?<br>

Yes No N/A

Has the organization, when establishing and reviewing its objectives, considered:
<br>The legal and other requirements?<br>Its significant environmental aspects?
<br>Its technological options?<br>Its financial, operational, and
business<br>requirements?<br>The views of interested parties?<br>

Yes No N/A

Are the organization’s objectives and targets consistent with its environmental policy,
including the commitment to the prevention of pollution?

Yes No N/A

4.3.4 Environmental management program(s)

Has the organization established and maintained environmental management

program(s) for achieving its objectives and targets?<br>

Yes No N/A

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Do environmental management program(s) designate responsibility for achieving

objectives and targets at each relevant function and level of the organization?<br>

Yes No N/A

Do environmental management program(s) define the means and timeframe by which

they are to be achieved?<br>

Yes No N/A

Are environmental management program(s) reviewed and changed when appropriate if

new or modified activities, products, or services are implemented in the organization?

Yes No N/A

4.4 Implementation and Operation

4.4.1 Structure and responsibility

Has the organization defined, documented, and communicated the roles,

responsibilities, and authorities to facilitate effective environmental management? How
is this done?<br>

Yes No N/A

Has management provided resources essential to the implementation and control the
environmental management system?<br>

Yes No N/A

Resources include human resources and specialized skills, technology, and

financial<br>resources?<br>

Yes No N/A

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Has the organization’s top management appointed (a) specific management

representative(s) who irrespective of other responsibilities, has defined roles,
responsibilities, and authority to:<br>Ensure that the environmental management
system (EMS) requirements are established, implemented, and maintained in
accordance with this International Standard.<br>Report on the performance of the EMS
to top management for review and as a basis for improvement of the EMS.

Yes No N/A

4.4.2 Training, awareness and competence

Has the organization identified the training needs for all personnel whose work may
create a significant impact upon the environment? How is this done?<br>

Yes No N/A

Has the organization established and maintained procedure to make it employees at

each relevant function aware of:<br>

Yes No N/A

The importance of conformance with the environmental policy and procedures and with
the requirement of the environmental management system (EMS)?

Yes No N/A

The significant environmental impacts, actual or potential, of their work activities and
the environmental benefits of improved personal performance?<br>

Yes No N/A

Their roles and responsibilities in achieving conformance with the environmental policy
and procedures and with the requirements of the EMS, including emergency
preparedness and response requirements?<br>

Yes No N/A

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The potential consequences of departure from specified operating procedure?<br>

Yes No N/A

How does the organization ensure that personnel performing tasks which can cause
significant environmental impacts are competent on the basis of appropriate education,
training, and/or experience?

Yes No N/A

4.4.3 Communication

Regarding its environmental aspects and environmental management system, has the
organization established and maintained procedures to ensure:<br>Internal
communication between the various levels and functions of the organization?
<br>Proper receiving, documenting, and responding to relevant communication from
external interested parities?<br>

Yes No N/A

Has the organization considered its process(es) for external communication on its
significant environmental aspects and recorded its decision?

Yes No N/A

4.4.4 Environmental management system documentation

Has the organization established and maintained information in paper or electronic

form to:<br>Describe the core elements of the management system and their
interaction?<br>Provide direction to related documentation?

Yes No N/A

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4.4.5 Document control

Has the organization established and maintained procedures for controlling all
documents required by this International Standard to ensure:<br>

Yes No N/A

They can be located?<br>

Yes No N/A

They are periodically reviewed, revised as necessary, and approved for adequacy by
authorized personnel?<br>

Yes No N/A

The current versions of relevant documents are available at all locations where
operations essential to the effective functioning of the environmental management
system are performed?<br>

Yes No N/A

Obsolete documents are promptly removed from all points of issue and points of use, or
otherwise assured against unintended use?<br>

Yes No N/A

Any obsolete documents are retained for legal and/or knowledge preservation purposes
are suitably identified?<br>

Yes No N/A

Are the organization’s documents legible, dated (with dates of revision), and readily
identifiable, maintained in an orderly manner and retained for a specified period?<br>

Yes No N/A

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Has the organization established and maintained procedures and responsibilities

concerning the creation and modification of the various types of documents?

Yes No N/A

4.4.6 Operational control

Has the organization identified those operations and activities that are associated with
the identified significant environmental aspects in line with its policy, objectives, and
targets?<br>

Yes No N/A

Has the organization planned these activities, including maintenance, in order to ensure
that they are carried out under specified conditions by:<br>Establishing and
maintaining documented procedures to cover situations where their absence could lead
to deviations from the environmental policy and the objectives and targets?
<br>Stipulating operation criteria in the procedures?<br>Establishing and maintaining
procedures related to the identifiable significant environmental aspects of goods and
services used by the organization and communicating relevant procedure and
requirements to suppliers and contractors?<br>

Yes No N/A

4.4.7 Emergency preparedness and response

Has the organization established and maintained procedures to identify potential for
and respond to accidents and emergency situations, and for preventing and mitigating
the environmental impacts that may be associated with them?<br>

Yes No N/A

Has the organization reviewed and revised, where necessary, its emergency
preparedness and response procedure, in particular, after the occurrence of accidents
or emergency situations?<br>

Yes No N/A

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Has the organization periodically tested such procedures where practicable?

Yes No N/A

4.5 Checking and Corrective Action

4.5.1 Monitoring and measurement

Has the organization established and maintained documented procedures to monitor

and measure, on a regular basis, the key characteristics of its operations and activities
that can have a significant impact on the environment?<br>

Yes No N/A

Does the monitoring and measurement include the recording of information to track
performance, relevant operational controls and conformance with the organization’s
environmental objectives and targets?<br>

Yes No N/A

Does the organization calibrate equipment and maintain records according to the
organization’s procedures?<br>

Yes No N/A

Has the organization established and maintained a documented procedure for

periodically evaluating compliance with relevant environmental legislation and
regulations?

Yes No N/A

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4.5.2 Nonconformance and corrective and preventive action

Has the organization established and maintained procedures for defining responsibility
and authority for handling and investigating non conformance, taking action to mitigate
any impacts caused, and for initiating and completing corrective and preventive action?
<br>

Yes No N/A

When corrective and preventive actions are taken to eliminate the causes of actual and
potential non conformances, are they appropriate to the magnitude or problems and
commensurate with the environmental impact encountered?<br>

Yes No N/A

Has the organization implemented and recorded any changes in the documented
procedures resulting from corrective and preventive action?

Yes No N/A

4.5.3 Records

Has the organization established and maintained procedures for the identification,
maintenance, and disposition of environmental records, including:<br>Training records?
<br>The results of audits (EMS audits)?<br>The results of reviews (Management
Reviews)?<br>

Yes No N/A

Are the organization’s records legible, identifiable, and traceable to the activity, product,
or service involved?<br>

Yes No N/A

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Are the environmental records stored and maintained in such a way that they are readily
retrievable and protected against damage, deterioration, or loss?<br>

Yes No N/A

Are the retention times for records established and recorded?<br>

Yes No N/A

Are records maintained, as appropriate to the system and to the organization, to

demonstrated conformance to the requirements of this International Standard?

Yes No N/A

4.5.4 Environmental management system audit

Has the organization established and maintained program(s) and procedure(s) for
periodic environmental management system audits to be carried out in order to:<br>-
Determine whether or not the environmental management system conforms to
planned arrangements for environmental management including the requirements of
this International ---Standard and has been properly implemented and maintained?
<br>Provide information on the results of audits to management?<br>

Yes No N/A

Is the organization’s audit program, including any schedule, based on the

environmental importance of the activity concerned and the results of previous audits?
<br>

Yes No N/A

Do the audit procedure cover the audit scope, frequency, and methodologies, as well as
the responsibilities and requirements for conducting audits and reporting results?

Yes No N/A

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4.6 Management Review

Does the organization’s top management, at intervals it determines, review the

environmental management system to ensure its continuing suitability and
effectiveness?<br>

Yes No N/A

Does the management review process ensure that the necessary information is
collected to allow management to carry out this evaluation?<br>

Yes No N/A

Are the management reviews documented?<br>

Yes No N/A

Does each management review address the possible need for changes to policy,
objectives, and other elements of the environmental management system, in the light
of:<br>Environment management system audit results?<br>Changing circumstances?
<br>The commitment to continual improvement?<br>

Yes No N/A

Sign Off

I, the undersigned, confirm this audit took place and was completed accurately.

Full name and signature of auditor 

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