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Marty50
I am doing a survey for a company of around 500 employees to see wether they could obtain ISO14001 certification.
The company say they have adopted the Environmental Policy statement of their parent organisation a large multinational with a large range of industries across the world including the one I am looking at on this specific site. This policy, in my opinion, is not necessarily appropraite to the nature, scale and impacts of this site's activities, products and services. It is dated 2003 and not signed off by their CEO but rather the CEO of the parent body.
I have met with some concern to my recommending they should define their own policy statement that says what they do, is signed off by their own CEO and dated regularly to show that it is reviewed by senior management.
Annex A of ISO14001 suggests that an organisation should define the scope to clarify boundaries to which its EMS will apply, especially if the organisation is part of a larger organisation at a given location.
When setting the scope, it should be noted that the credibility of the EMS will depend upon the choice or organisational boundaries. If a part of the organisation is excluded from the scope of its EMS, the organisation should be able to explain the exclusion.
It also says its area of application (i.e. scope) should be clearly identifiable and should reflect the unique nature, scale and enviromental impacts of the activities, products and services within the defined scope of the EMS.
Looking at Singapore Airlines policy statement its starts with "We fly thousands of people all over the world every day....". Thats pretty clearly stating what they do and how they sit in the world. The policy statement I am looking at adopted from the parent organisation doesnt in any way indicate what this company does on this site.
My questions to you guys are:
Can an organisation adopt the policy statement of the organisation of which it is a part of to obtain accreditation for a particular site if that policy statement doesnt define what this site does?
How do we prove that its supported by local senior management if its signed off by only by the CEO of the parent organisation?
And how often is regularly reviewed; surely not every five years?
Marty
The company say they have adopted the Environmental Policy statement of their parent organisation a large multinational with a large range of industries across the world including the one I am looking at on this specific site. This policy, in my opinion, is not necessarily appropraite to the nature, scale and impacts of this site's activities, products and services. It is dated 2003 and not signed off by their CEO but rather the CEO of the parent body.
I have met with some concern to my recommending they should define their own policy statement that says what they do, is signed off by their own CEO and dated regularly to show that it is reviewed by senior management.
Annex A of ISO14001 suggests that an organisation should define the scope to clarify boundaries to which its EMS will apply, especially if the organisation is part of a larger organisation at a given location.
When setting the scope, it should be noted that the credibility of the EMS will depend upon the choice or organisational boundaries. If a part of the organisation is excluded from the scope of its EMS, the organisation should be able to explain the exclusion.
It also says its area of application (i.e. scope) should be clearly identifiable and should reflect the unique nature, scale and enviromental impacts of the activities, products and services within the defined scope of the EMS.
Looking at Singapore Airlines policy statement its starts with "We fly thousands of people all over the world every day....". Thats pretty clearly stating what they do and how they sit in the world. The policy statement I am looking at adopted from the parent organisation doesnt in any way indicate what this company does on this site.
My questions to you guys are:
Can an organisation adopt the policy statement of the organisation of which it is a part of to obtain accreditation for a particular site if that policy statement doesnt define what this site does?
How do we prove that its supported by local senior management if its signed off by only by the CEO of the parent organisation?
And how often is regularly reviewed; surely not every five years?
Marty