I am reviewing for the lead auditor class I have next week. One of the questions asked in the student study manual is...What are the seven elements of the "DO" section of ISO 14001:2004?
What is the "DO" section and what are the elements?

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Do you have a copy of ISO 14001? If you do read it. There is a diagram normally around Roman numeral page vi that illistrates the Plan-Do-Check-Act / Continual Improvement process and provides information about what that all means...DO is primarily the Implementation and Operation portion of ISO 14001 and there are 7 very distinct elements in it.

Otherwise, have a look at ISO 14004 (note: 14004 is a guidance document) for detail explanation of PDCA in page 6. Within the box and under the title: Practical help - the environmental management system model, it provides details of the clauses under Plan, Do, Check & Act. In this case 4.4.1 - 4.4.7.

From http://www.praxiom.com/iso-14001-2004.htm

4.4.1 Provide resources and establish jobs.

Provide the resources needed to support your
organization’s environmental management system.

Provide the resources needed to establish
your environmental management system.

Provide the resources needed to implement
your environmental management system.

Provide the resources needed to maintain
your environmental management system.

Provide the resources needed to improve
your environmental management system.

Establish environmental management
roles, responsibilities, and authorities.

Define your environmental management
roles, responsibilities, and authorities.

Document your environmental management
roles, responsibilities, and authorities.

Communicate your environmental management
roles, responsibilities, and authorities.

Appoint someone to assume the role
of management representative.

4.4.2 Deliver training and awareness programs.

Make sure that people, who perform tasks that could potentially
have a significant environmental impact, are in fact competent.

Establish your environmental training programs.

Identify your organization’s
environmental training needs.

Deliver training programs that meet
your environmental training needs.

Maintain a record of your organization’s
environmental training activities.

Establish a procedure to make people aware
of your environmental management system.

Implement your environmental awareness procedure.

Maintain your environmental awareness procedure.

4.4.3 Establish communication procedures.

Establish a procedure to control your organization’s
internal environmental communications.

Implement your organization’s internal
environmental communications procedure.

Maintain your organization’s internal
environmental communications procedure.

Establish a procedure to control your organization’s
external environmental communications.

Implement your organization’s external
environmental communications procedure.

Maintain your organization’s external
environmental communications procedure.

4.4.4 Document your environmental management system.

Document your organization’s environmental policy.

Document your organization’s environmental objectives.

Document your organization’s environmental targets.

Document the scope of environmental management system.

Document the main parts of environmental management system.

Describe how the parts of your organization's
environmental management system interact.

4.4.5 Control environmental management documents.

Control documents required
by the ISO 14001 2004 standard.

Control documents required by your
environmental management system.

Control your environmental
management system records.

4.4.6 Control environmentally significant operations.

Identify those operations that are associated with your
organization’s significant environmental aspects.

Establish procedures to manage and control operational
situations that could have significant environmental impacts.

Document your environmental
operational control procedures.

Implement your environmental
operational control procedures.

Maintain your environmental
operational control procedures.

Establish procedures to control the significant
environmental aspects of the goods and services
provided by your suppliers and contractors.

Implement your environmental supplier
and contractor control procedures.

Maintain your environmental supplier
and contractor control procedures.

4.4.7 Establish an emergency management process.

Prepare for emergency situations and accidents that
could have a significant impact on the environment.

Establish procedures to identify potential emergency situations
and accidents that could have an impact on the environment.

Implement procedures to identify potential emergency
situations and accidents that could have an impact.

Maintain procedures to identify potential emergency
situations and accidents that could have an impact
on the environment.

Establish procedures to respond to actual emergency situations
and accidents that have an impact on the environment.

Implement procedures to respond to actual emergency
situations and accidents that have an impact.

Maintain procedures to respond to actual emergency
situations and accidents that have an impact on the
environment.

Test your environmental emergency response procedures.

Respond to actual environmental emergencies and accidents.

Prevent or mitigate the adverse environmental impacts
that emergencies and accidents can and do cause.

Review and revise your environmental emergency
preparedness and response procedures.

Great guys, great:nope:

The OP stated he/she was having to perform a pre-course exercise before attending a Lead Auditor course so instead of his reading and learning you just give him/her the answers to his question.

Let's just have the OP give us all the questions so that he/she won't have to expend any effort and get a course requirement out of the way.

.................. Let's just have the OP give us all the questions so that he/she won't have to expend any effort and get a course requirement out of the way.

You've a point but what we posted are nothing extra but information from the standards. What the OP should realized is the importance of being familiar with the standards and its interpretation. If not, one gets no where even if it is an open book test.

Great guys, great:nope:

The OP stated he/she was having to perform a pre-course exercise before attending a Lead Auditor course so instead of his reading and learning you just give him/her the answers to his question.
No, that's not what the OP said. He said he's reviewing a study guide. "DO section" is a colloquialism that doesn't appear in the standard as such, and one of the things the OP was asking was what the "DO section" is, which he couldn't know for sure from reading the standard.

Let's just have the OP give us all the questions so that he/she won't have to expend any effort and get a course requirement out of the way.The OP did give the questions, and got the answers. That's what we're here for, no? How is reviewing course materials before the course takes place a "course requirement"? It seems that the OP was trying to get a head start, nothing more.

How is reviewing course materials before the course takes place a "course requirement"? It seems that the OP was trying to get a head start, nothing more. Most likely an incorrect assumption

Odds are the OP is doing a graded exercise just as our students are required to do prior to Day 1. Under RABQSA rules for TCC courses the student has to be able to demonstrate previous experience or knowledge of ISO 14001 and some providers have them take a test that requires reading the Standard and submitting the results at the startup of the class. (Their own work) My response was designed to lead the student to the solution, not provide the solution, what was provided by others has diminished the learning process.

Great guys, great:nope:

The OP stated he/she was having to perform a pre-course exercise before attending a Lead Auditor course so instead of his reading and learning you just give him/her the answers to his question.

Let's just have the OP give us all the questions so that he/she won't have to expend any effort and get a course requirement out of the way.Randy, go to the moderator's forum and re-read the thread from Marc on answering students questions, please.

In a nutshell, if you don't want to answer these types of questions, fine; but don't harass those who ask the question nor the people who are willing to answer them. Just stay away, if you don't want to help.

Most likely an incorrect assumption

Odds are the OP is doing a graded exercise just as our students are required to do prior to Day 1. Under RABQSA rules for TCC courses the student has to be able to demonstrate previous experience or knowledge of ISO 14001 and some providers have them take a test that requires reading the Standard and submitting the results at the startup of the class. (Their own work) My response was designed to lead the student to the solution, not provide the solution, what was provided by others has diminished the learning process.
If the OP reads the material here, and understands its place in the standard rather than reading a copy of the standard itself (in this instance) how is anything diminished? It would be foolhardy of the OP to not verify (against the standard) what was posted here, and I agree that people should read the standard and try to understand it as far as possible prior to taking the course, but the OP was asking for help in that direction. My guess is that he will either pass the course or not pass it, and that outcome won't be affected by anything that's been posted here so far.

Thanks all for your help. After I got the first reply understood better what they meant by "Do". So as suggest I reviewed the standard and found the answers myself before any of the other replies to my questions.
The replies helped me see I answered correctly.
I am trying to understand the ISO 14001 standard Because as the last post stated I am taking the class and the questions is to show them I have knowledge of the standard before attending.

Thank you for everone's help.:agree1:

Good luck.

Carefully read and study 14001 from front to back. Pay particular attention to Section 3 (Definitions) and Annex A to enable you to get an even better grasp on what 14001 is about. Don't fret over Section 4 Requirements because that's actually the easiest to understand and apply. I've taught 2 complete 40 Hr Lead Auditor courses in the in the last 3 weeks, so you can rest assurred that I understand your delima and needs.

Never refrain from coming here and asking for assistance, it will be given. I am a believer in helping one to learn to to fish for a meal than just giving him a snack and sending him off to be hungry again at a later time.

Odds are the OP is doing a graded exercise just as our students are required to do prior to Day 1. Under RABQSA rules for TCC courses the student has to be able to demonstrate previous experience or knowledge of ISO 14001 and some providers have them take a test that requires reading the Standard and submitting the results at the startup of the class. (Their own work) My response was designed to lead the student to the solution, not provide the solution, what was provided by others has diminished the learning process.In you employer's website, the pre-requisites for the Environmental management systems lead auditor: Five day course state
Prerequisite

There is a pre-course questionnaire to be completed and signed before the first day of the course. A prior review of the ISO 14001 standard and internal audit experience are strongly recommended for this course.

Sorry I started the discussion, these comments seem negative...I just didn't understand what they meant by "dO" maybe I should have ask that question instead.

Sorry I started the discussion, these comments seem negative...I just didn't understand what they meant by "dO" maybe I should have ask that question instead.You have nothing to apologize for. You asked a perfectly valid question. And you got good replies. That is the very essence of this virtual place. Come back when you need more help.

In you employer's website, the pre-requisites for the Environmental management systems lead auditor: Five day course state

Quote:
Prerequisite

There is a pre-course questionnaire to be completed and signed before the first day of the course. A prior review of the ISO 14001 standard and internal audit experience are strongly recommended for this course.

Thank you, I appreciate the help. I had no idea what the website stated just as I was just guessing about what the person was doing and why.:sarcasm:

RABQSA TP4.EMSLA
3.1.1 Each student shall be required to have studied the current published version of ISO 14001 prior to attending the course

Under the 40 hr format we send out the 1st exercise for grading to each student to help assure that the above RABQSA requirement has been met and to be able to provide verifiable evidence of such.


Sorry I started the discussion, these comments seem negative...I just didn't understand what they meant by "dO" maybe I should have ask that question instead. You're doing fine. Keep asking questions

RABQSA TP4.EMSLA
3.1.1 Each student shall be required to have studied the current published version of ISO 14001 prior to attending the course

Under the 40 hr format we send out the 1st exercise for grading to each student to help assure that the above RABQSA requirement has been met and to be able to provide verifiable evidence of such.So, go and tell your web admin to update the information in the website, because strongly recommended is different from required....:tg: You have a mismatch between the RABQSA requirements and the publicly available information in the website.:mg: