2. Defining the type of documentation that meets ISO 14001 requirements
The new version no longer requires a specific procedure or record, but rather documented information. These cover the previous notions of procedures, documents or other records that the 2004 version required, while the 2015 version is neither less nor more demanding in this respect.
This documented information is considered as a tool for controlling the management system and its processes, to ensure their effectiveness (see chapter 7 "Support" of the documentary control requirements).
They focus more on ensuring implementation and the achievement of results than on the methodologies used. In addition, the "appropriate" and "necessary" dimensioning of documented information, expressed in chapters 7.5.2 and 7.5.3, makes it possible to maintain a system previously in place, to adapt it by examining the possibilities for lightening it, or even...
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ISO 14001: Environmental management – Requirements and guidelines for its use. Latest edition published on September 15, 2015.
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