• Environmental policy — Develop a statement of your organization’s commitment to the environment. Use this policy as a framework for planning and action.
• Environmental aspects — Identify environmental attributes of your products, activities and services. Determine those that could have significant impacts on the environment.
• Legal and other requirements — Identify and ensure access to relevant laws and regulations, as well as other requirements to which your organization adheres.
• Objectives and targets — Establish environmental goals for your organization, in line with your policy, environmental impacts, the views of interested parties and other factors.
• Environmental management program — Plan actions necessary to achieve your objectives and targets.
• Structure and responsibility — Establish roles and responsibilities for environmental management and provide appropriate resources.
• Training, awareness and competence — Ensure that your employees are trained and capable of carrying out their environmental responsibilities.
• Communication — Establish processes for internal and external communications on environmental management issues.
• EMS documentation — Maintain information on your EMS and related documents.
• Document control — Ensure effective management of procedures and other system documents.
• Operational control — Identify, plan and manage your operations and activities in line with your policy, objectives and targets.
• Emergency preparedness and response — Identify potential emergencies and develop procedures for preventing and responding to them.
• Monitoring and measurement — Monitor key activities and track performance. Conduct periodic assessments of compliance with legal requirements.
• Nonconformance and corrective and preventive action — Identify and correct problems and prevent their recurrence.
• Records — Maintain and manage records of EMS performance.
• EMS audit — Periodically verify that your EMS is operating as intended.
• Management review — Periodically review your EMS with an eye to continual improvement.