ISO 14001 Requirements - Three Basic Questions

Cliff · May 25, 2001

Hello everyone

I have few questions on 14001 requirement.

1. Shall the Enivornmental Policy doucment be signed by the top management to show the approval status?

2. Should training materials be treated as controlled documents?

3. Is an auditor allowed to perform audit within his own department? Or he has to be independent from his job.

Randy · May 26, 2001

1.Yes

2.Yes

3.Yes

4.Yes/No Yes/No

My opinion anyway.

[This message has been edited by Randy (edited 26 May 2001).]

alisha · May 27, 2001

Originally posted by Cliff:
Hello everyone

I have few questions on 14001 requirement.

1. Shall the Enivornmental Policy doucment be signed by the top management to show the approval status?

2. Should training materials be treated as controlled documents?

3. Is an auditor allowed to perform audit within his own department? Or he has to be independent from his job.

Repling

alisha_Pakitan

A_1. yes, it is very important to have the
top manag. involved in the hole process. e.g
Any thing droped from hieght makes much more
impact than from bottom. therefore to sign the envirn. policy specialy by the head of the organization becomes imp.

A_2. Yes, documentation is must, and whats more it actualy makes things easier. without
doumentation it is deficult to gauge succes
& also improve.

A_3. It depends, if the org. is small one e.g. 150 so strength 1 or 2 auditors are
enough for larger org. no. of auditors may increase. As the auditor must recive proper tranning they become quit capable of performing audit of any dept. but offcourse
background does count.