ISO 14001:2015 Gap Analysis Tool

You need to determine the external and internal issues that are relevant to your organization, including environmental conditions affected by or affecting your organization.

You need to determine the interested parties for your EMS, their relevant needs requirements, and which of these become compliance obligations.

You need to determine and document the boundaries and applicability of your EMS by considering external and internal issues, compliance obligations, physical boundaries, what you control and influence and your activities, products and services.

An environmental policy must be established that is appropriate for the organization, provides a framework for environmental objectives, and shows commitment to protecting the environment, meeting compliance obligations and continual improvement.

You need to determine the environmental aspects of your activities, products, and services, including new developments and abnormal conditions, and maintain documented information about these.

You need to determine your compliance obligations, how they apply to your organization, and take these into account in the EMS.

You need to establish environmental objectives for the EMS that are measurable, monitored, communicated, updated, and documented, and plan actions to achieve them.

You need to determine the necessary competence required of persons who will perform functions within the EMS processes.

You need to take actions to ensure persons doing work within the EMS know the environmental policy, environmental aspects, compliance obligations, and EMS effectiveness.

You need to determined the what, when, with whom, how, and who of EMS communication for both internal and external communications relevant to the EMS.

You need to set up a process to control documented information of the EMS including creating and updating, control of use, adequate protection, control of distribution, and changes.

You need to plan and control processes needed to meet EMS requirements, including outsourced processes, consistent with a life cycle perspective including control of planned changes.

You need to establish, implement and maintain processes to respond to any potential emergency situations to prevent environmental impact.

You need to test planned responses where practicable and review and revise as necessary.

You need to determine the monitoring and measurement needs, how it will be done, and when it shall be performed for the processes of the EMS. You need to analyze and evaluate the data and information arising from monitoring and measurement.

You need to establish, implement and maintain a process to evaluate how you fulfill your compliance obligations.

You need to have audit procedures to evaluate the EMS against the planned arrangements (including effectiveness and maintenance) at planned intervals and results must be reported to management.

Top management must review the data from the EMS to assess the need for change in the EMS, resource adequacy, and the effectiveness of the EMS.

When a nonconformity occurs, you must take action to deal with the nonconformity and deal with the consequences, evaluate the need to eliminate the root cause of the nonconformity, and review the effectiveness of the corrective action taken.