ISO 14000 Planning
ISO 14000 Planning
Planning is critical to the fulfillment of an organization’s environmental policy and the establishment, implementation, and maintenance of its environmental management system. An organization should have a planning process that includes the following elements:
a) Identification of environmental aspects and the determination of those which are significant;
b) Identification of applicable legal requirements and other requirements to which the organization subscribes;
c) Setting of internal performance criteria where appropriate;
d) Setting of objectives and targets and establishment of programme(s) to achieve them.
Such a planning process can help an organization focus its resources on those areas that are most important to achievement of its goals. Information generated by the planning process can also be used in the establishment and improvement of other parts of the environmental management system, such as training, operational control and monitoring and measurement.
Planning is an ongoing process. It is used both to establish and implement elements of the environmental management system and to maintain and improve them, based on changing circumstances and inputs and outputs of the environmental management system itself. As part of the planning process, an organization should consider how it would measure and evaluate its performance in meeting its policy commitments, objectives and targets, and other performance criteria. One approach that can be useful is to establish performance indicators during the planning process.
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