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ISO 14001 What are the key

changes?

Dr Anne-Marie Warris Chair ISO TC 207 SC1

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What were the influences?

• move from end of pipe approach

• broader concept of environment

• business focus / importance

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What did we do? – EMS challenges study +survey

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EMS Challenges – themes

1. part of sustainability and social responsibility 2. improvement of environmental performance 3. compliance with legal and other external requirements 4. overall (strategic) business management 5. conformity assessment 6. uptake in small organisations 7. environmental impacts in the value/supply chain 8. engaging stakeholders 9. parallel or sub systems (GHG, energy) 10. external communication (including product information) 11. positioning of EMS in (inter)national policy agendas

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Users view of why ISO 14001? Survey of 5000 users identified the following benefits: • 75% high or above for meeting legal requirements and improving the

organization’s environmental performance

• > 60% high or above for management commitment and employee engagement

• > 50% high or above for business management, notably for meeting stakeholder requirements, improving public image, achieving strategic objectives, and integrating with business management systems

• > 60% moderate value or higher in the area supplier environmental performance

• > 75% moderate or above for providing a competitive advantage

• > 60% moderate value or above for providing financial benefit

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Scope of revision • be based on the common management

system framework and its identical

text, common terms and core

definitions

• consider the final report "Future

Challenges for EMS"

• ensure the maintenance and

improvement of the basic principles of

ISO 14001:2004, and also the retention

and improvement of its existing

requirements

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Changes

Three focus areas:

1. holistic environment

2. business linkage

3. ‘cloud’ consideration

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Holistic environment (i)

How environment effect your organisation

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Holistic environment (ii)

Protect the environment > pollution prevention • commit to proactive initiatives to protect the environment

from harm and degradation

• can include prevention of pollution, sustainable resource use, climate change mitigation and adaptation, protection of biodiversity and ecosystems, etc.

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Holistic environment (iii) Life cycle perspective • extend its control and influence to the environmental

impacts associated with product design and development to address each stage of the life cycle

• sufficient to think carefully about the life cycle stages that can be controlled or influenced by the organization

• typical stages of a product (or service) life cycle include raw material acquisition, design, production, transportation/ delivery, use, end-of-life treatment and final disposal

• will vary depending on the activity, product or service

• does not imply a requirement to do a life cycle assessment

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Holistic environment (iv)

Environmental Performance

• shift in emphasis with regard to continual improvement, from improving the management system to improving environmental performance

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Business linkage (i)

Context + strategic planning process • understand the organization’s context to identify and leverage

opportunities for the benefit of both the organization and the environment

• focus is on issues or changing circumstances related to the needs and expectations of interested parties (including regulatory requirements) and local, regional or global environmental conditions that can affect, or be affected by, the organization

• actions to mitigate adverse risk or exploit beneficial opportunities are integrated in the operational planning of the environmental management system

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Business linkages (ii)

Leadership • ensure the success of the system

• assigns specific responsibilities for those in leadership to promote environmental management within the organization

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Business linkages (iii)

Transparency / Communication • develop a communications strategy with

equal emphasis on external and internal communications

• communicate consistent and reliable information

• decision to communicate externally is for the organization. Needs to take into account information reporting required by regulatory agencies and the expectations of other interested parties

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‘Cloud’ / modern IT

Document information • evolution of computer and cloud based systems for running

management systems

• uses the term ‘documented information’, instead of ‘documents’ and ‘records’

• organization retain the flexibility to determine when ‘procedures’ are needed to ensure effective process control

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Common structure for MSS Introduction

1. Scope

2. Normative references

3. Terms and definitions

4. Context of the organization

5. Leadership

6. Planning

7. Support

8. Operation

9. Performance evaluation

10. Improvement

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Structure linkage 1. Scope

2. Normative references

3. Terms and definitions

4. Context of the organization – Understanding the organization and its

context

– Understanding needs and expectations of interested parties

– Scope of the management system

– Environmental management system

5. Leadership – Leadership & commitment

– Environmental policy

– Roles, responsibilities and authorities

6. Planning – Actions to address risks & opportunities

• General

• Environmental aspects

• Compliance obligations

• Planning action

– Objectives and planning to achieve them

• Environmental objectives

• Planning to achieve objectives

7. Support – Resources

– Competence

– Awareness

– Communication

• General

• Internal communication

• External communication

– Documented information

• General

• Creating and updating

• Control of documented information

8. Operation – Operational planning and control – Emergency preparedness &

response

9. Performance evaluation – Monitoring, measurement,

analysis & evaluation

• General

• Evaluation of compliance

– Internal audit

– Management review

10. Improvement – General

– Nonconformity and corrective action

– Continual Improvement

Annex A – Informative Guidance

Annex B – Correspondence 2015 vs 2004

Bibliography

Alphabetical Index

Key: Black – core MS requirement , comparable to 14001:2004 Red – New MS requirements Blue – ISO 14001, discipline-specific ©Susan L K Briggs

EMS challenges – how successful?

1. part of sustainability and social responsibility 2. improvement of environmental performance 3. compliance with legal and other external requirements 4. overall (strategic) business management 5. conformity assessment 6. uptake in small organisations 7. environmental impacts in the value/supply chain 8. engaging stakeholders 9. parallel or sub systems (GHG, energy) 10. external communication (including product information) 11. Positioning of EMS in (inter)national policy agendas

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Font colour code

Red colour = incorporated

Green colour = partly incorporated

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ISO 14001 link with ISO 9001?

• close co-operation between the committees

• regularly updated tabular comparison on how various elements of the common structure for MSS was being handled by the two working groups.

• liaison arrangement to help understanding and to identify further need for alignment between the two standards

• NSB members were requested to collaborate among their respective ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 experts to develop and submit joint comments on issues related to alignment between the two standards

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ISO 14001 - future My view 1. assisting organization to manage tradeoff

between environmental issues by using a life cycle perspective and supply chain considerations

2. becoming the tool of choice for organizations to integrate environmental issues and dependencies such as resource use into business strategic thinking, actions and plans

3. continuing to be the valued by significant number of users (in excess of 70%) for improving environmental performance, providing a competitive advantage and continuing to meet legal requirements

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More information from website

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Support material such as: • Terms and definitions

comparison • Main changes • Mapping • Slides from workshop on

changes at TC207 plenary

committee.iso.org/tc207sc1

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SC1 scope, mission and vision Scope

Standardization in the field of environmental management systems to support the achievement of sustainability

Mission

Develop and maintain standards in the field of environmental management systems that meet stakeholder needs, are market based and support sustainability

Vision

• We are recognized as the world leader in the development of environmental management system standards that supports sustainability

• Our standards are recognized nationally and internationally by users and other stakeholders as the EMS standards of choice.

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Thank you

• BSI for opportunity

• my colleagues and friends in ISO SC1 WG 5 for their hard work and dedication to getting us to this exciting point

• USA TAG for award to WG5 leadership

• apologies but I am chairing an Innovate project meeting at 12 so ….have good rest of event

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