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Situation: A company is in its 4th year of an ISO 14001 certificate. During a tour it was observed that the facility was having unauthorized release of a liquid to the storm drain which empties on the site property. It was noted that another storm drain appeared to have another type of a liquid coming out of it and it also drained on-site. The sites storm drain system is old. The site does have a storm water pollution plan as part of their NPDES permit. Site staff knows that there are and have been unauthorized releases in the past. The site does have a management program that has not really addressed this issue successfully.The 2011 compliance audit did pick up that storm water was an issue but the 2009 compliance audit did not.
It was decided to issue a major nonconformance to the ISO 14001, 4.2 Environmental Policy, Commitment to Comply because the plant has operated with unauthorized releases over the 4 year history of their ISO 14001 program. Other elements feeding into the not committing to comply include, legal and other, management programs compliance auditing, communication, resources and roles and operational control. Thus, the major was based on the most restrictive clause, 4.2 Environmental Policy, Commitment to Comply.
Thoughts? Correct call? Thank you.
It was decided to issue a major nonconformance to the ISO 14001, 4.2 Environmental Policy, Commitment to Comply because the plant has operated with unauthorized releases over the 4 year history of their ISO 14001 program. Other elements feeding into the not committing to comply include, legal and other, management programs compliance auditing, communication, resources and roles and operational control. Thus, the major was based on the most restrictive clause, 4.2 Environmental Policy, Commitment to Comply.
Thoughts? Correct call? Thank you.
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