scope:

This guide provides tools to help develop an objective and consistent approach to understanding how your organization can better manage the environmental aspects it controls and over which it has an influence. Suggestions in this guide do not add to the requirements of IS0 14001.

how your organization's activities, products, and services have the potential to interact with the environment, and how, in turn, environmental factors can impact your business.

This document will help your organization meet the requirements of ISO 14001, Clause 4.3.1, by outlining four key steps and explaining how to succeed at each one:

(a) select an activity, product, or service;

(b) identify environmental aspects of the activity, product, or senke;

(c) identify environmental impacts of these aspects; and

(d) evaluate the significance of environmental impacts.

At the end of each step, a checklist of tasks is provided as a summary. The guide may be used by organizations that intend to have a fully developed EMS, to self-declare conformity with the requirements of ISO 14001 , or to seek third-party registration.

The guide also includes

(a) examples of various approaches to identifying environmental aspects and impacts and to determining their significance; and

(b) worksheets and tables to help identify and assess significant environmental aspects.