ISO 14000 Opportunities for improvement
ISO 14000 Opportunities for improvement
An organization should continually evaluate its environmental performance and the performance of its environmental management system processes to identify opportunities for improvement. Top management should be involved directly in this evaluation through the management review process.
The identification of environmental management system deficiencies (including actual or potential
non-conformities) also provides significant opportunities for improvement. To realize such improvements, an organization should not only know what deficiencies exist, but understand why they exist. This can be achieved by analyzing the root causes(s) of environmental management system deficiencies.
Some useful sources of information for continual improvement include
a) experience gained from corrective and preventive actions,
b) external benchmarking against best practices,
c) intended or proposed changes applicable to legal requirements and other requirements to which the organization subscribes,
d) results of environmental management system and compliance audits,
e) results of monitoring of key characteristics of operations,
f) results of progress towards achieving objectives and targets, and
g) views of interested parties, including employees, customers and suppliers.
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