Environmental Aspects

ISO 14001 Aspect and Impact Requirements

"The organization shall establish and maintain (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, in order to determine those which have or can have significant impacts on the environment.

Significant environmental impacts will be taken into account when establishing, implementing and maintaining the environmental management system.

The organization shall keep this information up-to-date.

Environmental aspects are defined as: "results of the organizations activities, products and/or services that can interact with the environment"

We start by identifying your organizations "environmental aspects"

Things to consider when identifying environmental aspects

Item

Emission to air

Releases to water

Releases to land

Use of raw materials

Use of natural resources

Use of energy

Energy emitted

Waist and by products

Physical attributes

 

Consideration will be given to your organizations activities, products and services such as:

Item

Design and development

Manufacturing processes

Packaging

Transportation

Environmental performance

Practices of contractors and supplies

Waste management

Extraction and distribution of raw materials and natural resources

Distribution, use and end of life

Wildlife

Biodiversity

We need to understand these "Environmental Aspects" Conderidation will be given to:

Item

Positive (beneficial) environmental aspects

Negative (adverse) environmental aspects

Actual environmental impacts*

Potential environmental impacts

Which part of the environment could be affected. (air, water, soul, flora, fauna, cultural heritage, etc.)

Characteristics of the location that might affect the impact such as: local weather conditions, height of water table, soil types, etc.

Nature of changes to the environment (global Vs local issues, length of time for which the impact occurs, potential for impact to accumulate in strength over time)

 

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