Understanding the ISO 14001 Context of an Organization
The context of an organization is the environment within which it operates. It includes all factors that can affect the organization’s ability to achieve its objectives.
The ISO 14001 2015 standard requires organizations to consider the context in which they operate as part of their environmental management system. This includes understanding external and internal issues that could affect their ability to achieve their environmental objectives.
Organizations need to consider their legal requirements and also need to consider the internal and external issues that could affect their ability to achieve their environmental objectives.
External factors could include:
- Legislation and regulations.
- External stakeholder cultural, social, political and legal expectations.
- The natural environment.
Internal factors could include:
- Organizational culture.
- Business processes.
- Operational processes.
- The resources needed to identify and understand the context in which they operate.
How to Determine the ISO 14001 Context of an Organization
The international standard for ISO 14001, environmental management systems, do not prescribe methods for determining the context of an organization.
Therefore, this procedure template follows a very practical four-step approach:
- Identify who are the relevant interested parties and what their ISO 14001 requirements, needs and expectations are.
- Identify the internal issues that can affect our products, services, investments and interested parties.
- Identify the external issues that can affect our organization’s products, services, investments and interested parties.
- Regularly review, maintain and continually improve those internal issues, external issues and interested parties that have been identified, so that intended outcomes are achieved.
By taking the time to consider all of these factors, you can ensure that your ISO 14001 implementation will be successful.
Contents of this ISO 14001 Context of the Organization Procedure
- Approval.
- Purpose.
- Scope.
- Terms and Definitions.
- Roles and Responsibilities.
- Procedures.
- Overview of the Context of the Organization Assessment.
- Determining the Context.
- Environmental Aspects
- Environmental Conditions and Compliance Obligations.
- Interested Parties.
- Interest Party Requirements and Issues of Concern.
- Risks and Opportunities.
- Related Procedures, Forms and Documents.
- Review Management Criteria.
- Record Management.
- References.
Why Choose to Buy this ISO 14001 Context of the Organization Procedure
This 8-page ISO 14001 context of the organization procedure template can help you implement, maintain and continually improve on how to establish the context of your organization and subsequent objectives and direction through the:
- Identification of interested parties.
- Analysis of internal and external issues of concern.
- Identification of the needs and expectations of interested parties.
- Relevant risks and opportunities.
The procedure can help you understand how relevant factors arising from legal, political, economic, social and technological issues influence your organization’s strategic direction based on organizational context.
This procedure can also be applied to the processes of defining your organization’s position in the marketplace.
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