Your organization should actively seek out and realize improvement opportunities that will better enable it to achieve the intended outcomes of the EMS.
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Improvement may not always take place on a continual basis. ‘Improvement’ can be affected:
Potential sources of improvement opportunities include the results of analysis and evaluation of:
Your organization should actively seek out and realize improvement opportunities that will better enable it to achieve the intended outcomes of its EMS.
Look out for objective evidence that improvement is taking place. However, while improvement does not need to be continuous, it does need to be evidenced as occurring.
The organization is required to take whatever action is necessary to control and correct a nonconformity, and to deal with any resultant environmental impact.
Determine what caused the nonconformity and then to consider whether the potential for a similar problem remains. You will need to consider whether any further action is required to prevent a similar nonconformity recurring at the same place or occurring somewhere else, at some point in the future.
Auditors should evidence that where nonconformities have been identified an investigation has been conducted to determine whether other similar nonconformities actually do or potentially could exist and whether the organization has considered whether it needs to make changes to the EMS to prevent recurrence or occurrence elsewhere:
There may be instances where it is impossible to completely eliminate the cause of non-conformity, so in instances, the best organizations can do is to reduce the likelihood or the consequences of a similar occurrence happening again in order to reduce the risk to an acceptable level.
A corrective action should be considered as a reactive response to a problem since it is taken when a nonconformance is detected or upon receipt of a customer complaint.
Your organization should first contain the problem and then determine its root cause in order to take appropriate corrective action to prevent the problem’s recurrence.
Auditors should evidence whether your organization has identified improvement opportunities and EMS underperformance using the outputs from other processes such as, analysis and evaluation, internal audit, management reviews, tools and methodologies to support investigations. Auditors should also check whether the organization has implemented the identified opportunities for improvement in a controlled manner.
The standard provides help to interpret some terms used in this clause. ‘Continual’ means that this activity occurs over a period of time, but with potential intervals of interruption, while ‘continuous’ means duration without interruption.
Your organization should seek to implement a process, with appropriate methods, techniques, and formats for identifying areas of underperformance or opportunities for improvement.
You should expect to evidence that your organization has selected the appropriate tools and techniques to investigate the causes and thereby establishing and implementing a process for continual improvement.
The impetus for continual improvement must come from the use of (as a minimum):
Requirements for continual improvement interrelate with the following clauses:
Processes can always be made more efficient and effective, even when they are producing conforming products. The aim of a continual improvement programme is to increase the odds of satisfying customers by identifying areas that need improvement. It requires the organization to plan improvement systems and to take into account many other activities that can be used in the improvement process.
You will be required to ensure that you continually improve the degree to which your products and services meet customer requirements and to measure effectiveness of your processes. To this end the continual improvement principle implies that you should adopt the attitude that improvement is always possible and your organizations should develop the skills and tools necessary to drive improvement.
Once your environmental management system has been implemented, run the new EMS for at least three months to ensure it is fully embedded it into your business’s processes and to identify nonconformities, address corrective actions, and to implement any improvement opportunities. Engage with your chosen Certification body to arrange certification!
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Updated: 24th February 2022
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