The document summarizes the key changes between the existing ISO 14001 standard and the revised version. Some of the major changes include a stronger focus on leadership and strategic planning, broader consideration of environmental context and stakeholder needs, specific commitments to sustainable development, extending environmental management to suppliers, and an increased emphasis on compliance, risk, and performance tracking. The revisions require a more holistic and process-oriented approach to environmental management.

1. YOUR HEADING
HERE
10.05.2011
ISO 14001 revision: what do the changes mean for
business?
A focus on strategic aspects
Colleen Theron, director
14 July 2015

2. Introduction
• Who am I ?
• What do we do?
• What will we cover this morning?

3. Some of our clients

4. Setting the scene
• Societal expectations have evolved of increasingly
stringent legislation, restraint natural resources,
supply chain challenges
• Increased international focus on companies and
how they manage risk
• Greater focus on stakeholder engagement
• Leadership key in attainment of resilient
companies
• ISO- normal review process

5. Basics of 14001
• Plan, Do, Check, Act approach
• Demonstrates iterative process for
organisations to achieve continual
improvement
• Benchmark environmental standard but
previously more of a tick box exercise

6. ISO revision timeline
• Proposed changes been on sale since 2 July
2014
• Final DIS released in April 2015
• Final standard in Autumn of 2015

7. To whom does the standard apply?
• Large and small business and industry
• Service sectors
• Government organisations
• All types of organisations

8. Key changes
• Greater expectation for top management to
understand the organisations environmental issues
• Broader strategic consideration of organisations
environmental context, including the interests of
stakeholders
• Specific commitments to sustainable development
• Extending environmental influence in the supply
chain
• Demonstrating environmental compliance
• Using KPIs to track improvement

9. New structure detail
• Significant change
• Context
• Leadership
• Processes rather than procedures
• Compliance obligations
• Need to view the requirements in a more
holistic manner

10. The new structure
Plan
CheckCorrect
Do
6.
Planning
5.
Leadership
10.
Improvement
9.
Performance
evaluations
7/8
Support &
operation
4.1 external
4.2 needs
3. Terms & definitions
2. Normative references
1. Scope
4. Context of org.

11. Seven key changes
1. Greater expectation top management
2. Broader strategic consideration of organisations
environmental context
3. Specific commitments to sustainable development
4. Extending environmental influence to the supply
chain
5. Embracing opportunities for using environmental
design as a tool for improvement
6. Demonstrating environmental compliance
7. Using performance indicators to track performance

12. Context
• Organisations to understand the internal and
external issues of an organisation
• AND the needs and expectations of interested
parties

13. Leadership
• Requirement strengthened - commitment and
active support / be accountable
• Provide adequate resources
• Expected to create a culture and environment
that encourages leadership roles
• Integrate EMS into business processes

14. Processes rather than procedures
• Multiple connections between different parts
of the new standard
• Not written in a linear implementation way
• Terminology- e/g ‘consider vs ‘take into
account’ ‘appropriate vs ‘applicable’
• Change management

15. Broad concept of risk
• Organisation to understand the risk associated
with threats and opportunities
• Also link risk to compliance

16. Interested parties
• Standard requires the identification of
interested parties
• Can include customers, regulators,
shareholders, investors and internal (e.g.
marketing, finance, employees)
• Must understand their needs and
expectations
• Not prescriptive on how the needs or
expectations are evaluated

17. Tracking performance
• Broadly align environmental objectives with
top management commitments
• Aligned with environmental policy
• Selection of indicators to achieve measureable
objectives
• Indicators can be aligned with any regulatory
requirements

18. Extending environmental influence –
procurement implications
• Specific requirement to address
environmental issues in procurement:
– evaluating the supply of goods, services and
outsourced processes, taking a lifecycle
perspective
– specifying environmental requirements in
procurement of goods (DO shorts book)
– communicating requirements to contractors

19. What does this mean in practice?
• Holistic approach
• Understand what internal and external
issues give rise to risk ( materiality? )
• Gain an understanding of internal and
external stakeholders
• Not limited to solely environmental
factors

20. Challenges facing users
• How to interpret the new requirements
• How to get more business value out of the
system
• Aligning the system with the business drivers
• Competence and capability
• Implementing the new standard from scratch

21. What should you be doing now?
• Start planning for the transition
• Consider training requirements
– Auditors/ management/ operational managers
• Consider key changes to way business
operates
– Stakeholder engagement, identifying material risk,
changes to procurement
• Undertake a gap analysis
– Tool available: www.clt-envirolaw.com

22. Contact Details
Colleen Theron
Sustainability lawyer and consultant
Tel: +44 (0)7714979936
Email: colleen.theron@clt-
envirolaw.com

23. ISO 14001 REVISION: WHAT DO THE CHANGES MEAN
FOR BUSINESS?
A FOCUS ON COMPLIANCE OBLIGATIONS
14 JULY 2015
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http://clt-envirolaw.com/

24. 6. PLANNING
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Draft Standard:
6.1.3 Compliance Obligations
The organization shall:
a) identify and have access to the
compliance obligations related to its
environmental aspects;
b) determine how these compliance
obligations apply to the organization.
The organization shall maintain
documented information of its compliance
obligations.
Existing Standard:
4.3.2 Legal and other requirements
The organization shall establish, implement
and maintain a procedure(s)
a) to identify and have access to the
applicable legal requirements and other
requirements to which the
organization subscribes related to its
environmental aspects, and
b) to determine how these requirements
apply to its environmental aspects.
The organization shall ensure that these
applicable legal requirements and other
requirements to which the
organization subscribes are taken into
account in establishing, implementing and
maintaining its environmental
management system.

25. 6. PLANNING
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• The compliance obligations section is now directly linked to risk
associated with threats and opportunities in 6.1.4
• Risk required to be determined with associated threats and
opportunities:
— Give assurance that the EMS can achieve outcomes
— Prevent or reduce undesired effects
— Achieve continual improvement
• Compliance obligations are also linked to documented
information in 7.5
• Actions are required to address risks and compliance
obligations (6.1.5 a)
— Actions must be integrated and implemented into the EMS processes
and the effectiveness of the actions must be evaluated.

26. 7.5 DOCUMENTED INFORMATION
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Definition (3.7)
Information required to be controlled and maintained by an
organisation (3.1) and the medium on which it is contained
-Necessary for the effectiveness of the EMS
-Will vary in content and extent depending on organisation
-Must be appropriate
-Must be updated, reviewed & approved for suitability & adequacy
-Must be available & protected & controlled
-Necessary external documents must also be controlled in the
system
E.g. Legal Registers, compliance audits, management plans to
address compliance obligations etc ..

27. 9. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
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• Compliance obligations need to be monitored
and measured.
• The methods for monitoring measurement
analysis and evaluation must be specified to
ensure valid results, including timing of such
monitoring, measurement & evaluation. The
results must be documented.

28. 9.1.2. EVALUATION OF COMPLIANCE
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Draft Standard:
9.1.2 Evaluation of Compliance
The organization shall plan and implement
a process to evaluate conformity with its
compliance obligations.
The organization shall:
•determine the frequency that compliance
will be evaluated;
•evaluate compliance and take action if
needed;
•maintain knowledge and understanding of
its status of conforming with compliance
obligations.
The organization shall retain documented
information as evidence of the compliance
evaluation result(s).
Existing Standard:
4.5.2 Evaluation of compliance
4.5.2.1 Consistent with its commitment to
compliance, the organization shall establish,
implement and maintain a procedure(s) for
periodically evaluating compliance with
applicable legal requirements.
The organization shall keep records of the
results of the periodic evaluations.
4.5.2.2 The organization shall evaluate
compliance with other requirements to
which it subscribes. The
organization may wish to combine this
evaluation with the evaluation of legal
compliance referred to in 4.5.2.1
or to establish a separate procedure(s).
The organization shall keep records of the
results of the periodic evaluations.

29. 9.2 INTERNAL AUDIT
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• Internal audit required to provide information on whether the
EMS conforms to the standard, the co’s own requirements and
is effectively implemented and maintained.
• The audits must take into account the risks associated with
threats and opportunities as well as the results of previous
audits (includes compliance audits).
• Audit programme and audit results to be retained as
documented information and required to assist with
management review.
• Therefore Compliance issues are integrated into the entire
management process.

30. 9.3 MANAGEMENT REVIEW
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• Management review must consider changes in
compliance obligations and risks associated with
threats and opportunities.
• All to contribute towards continual improvement
(10.2) to enhance environmental performance.

31. CONTACT DETAILS
THANK YOU
CATHERINE WARBURTON
Warburton Attorneys
IMBEWU Sustainability Legal Specialists (Pty) Ltd
53 Dudley Road, Cnr Bolton Avenue
Parkwood, Johannesburg.
Tel: 011 447 6848/0
Fax: 011 447 6868
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