List of Mandatory Documents required by ISO 14001 Environmental Management System

ISO 14001 is the international standard that specifies necessities for an effective environmental management system. It delivers a framework that an organization can follow, rather than establishing environmental performance requirements. ISO 14001 is a part of the ISO 14000 family of standards on environmental management, ISO 14001 is a standard that organizations can certify to integrating it with other management systems standards, most generally ISO 9001, can further assist in achieving organizational goals.

The International Organization for Standardization describes an environmental management system as part of the management system used to manage environmental features, fulfil compliance obligations, and address risks and opportunities. The framework in the ISO 14001 standard can be used within a plan-do-check-act method to constant improvement.

So, here is the list of requirements for documentation that essential to know below there is not only mandatory documents, but also the most generally used documents for ISO 14001 implementation.

Mandatory Documents:

Here are the ISO 14001 documents that need to produce if organization want to be compliant with Environmental Management System:

• Scope of the Environmental Management System.
• Environmental Policy.
• Risk and Opportunities to be addressed and procedures required.
• Conditions for evaluation of important environmental aspects.
• Environmental aspects with related environmental impacts.
• Important environmental aspects.
• Compliance obligations document.
• Environmental objectives and plans for accomplishing them.
• Operational control.
• Emergency preparedness and response.

Here are the mandatory records if organization want to be compliant with ISO 14001:

• Records of Training, Skills, Experience and Qualifications.
• Evidence of communication.
• Monitoring and Measurement results.
• Evidence of the obedience evaluation results.
• Internal audit program.
• Results of Internal audits.
• Results of the Management review.
• Results of corrective actions.

Non-Mandatory Documents:

There are many non-mandatory documents that can be used for ISO 14001 implementation. Although they are not mandatory, these non-mandatory documents to be most commonly used:

• Procedure for Determining Context of the Organization and Interested Parties.
• Procedure for Identification and Evaluation of Environmental Aspects and Risks.
• Capability, Training and Awareness procedure.
• Procedure for Communication.
• Procedure for Document and Record control.
• Procedure for Internal Audit.
• Procedure for Management Review.
• Procedure for Management of Nonconformities and Corrective actions.