The Top management team must periodically review the environmental management system (EMS) to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness. The frequency or intervals of the Top management’s formal review must be defined in the EMS. The management review must address the possible need for changes to policy, objectives, targets, and other elements of the EMS.
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The company's senior managers should regularly review the EMS for effectiveness. Usually, the reviews are recorded so that external auditors can see the management is kept up to date with the results of monitoring.
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ISO standards state the frequency or intervals of reviews must be defined in the EMS by the Management Team.
The frequency of management reviews might be quarterly, six monthly or annually. You may decide to have stand-alone management reviews or combine it with other business activities, e.g. strategic planning, business planning, operations meetings or functional reviews.
It is not a mandatory requirement to document your ISO 14001 management review process for achieving certification, however, we find it useful for the business and recommend you develop and implement a Management Review Procedure that defines:
Customer feedback, audit findings & audit results (using a gap analysis tool or ISO 14001 audit checklist), as well as Internal and external issues should be discussed by the management team; processes performance, EMS objectives, preventive actions, recommendations for improvement - and their potential effect on the strategic direction of the organization.
The management review meetings must address the possible need for changes to policy, objectives, targets, and other elements of the EMS.
The management review process must ensure that the necessary information is collected ahead of time to allow management to effectively carry out this evaluation.
Suitability and effectiveness of the EMS based possible changing circumstances that may include:
All management reviews must be documented. Observations, conclusions, and recommendations for further necessary action from the review must be recorded. If any corrective action must be taken, Top management should follow up to ensure that the action was effectively implemented.
This now includes additional requirements for your organization to have a structured management review process that includes discussion of internal and external issue changes, and its potential effect on the strategic direction of your organization.
Your organization’s management review process must also include discussion of external provider’s, and other supplier’s performance. It must also include an assessment of risk management actions.
Auditors should expect to evidence the same outputs from management reviews as at present. However, they should note that the results of management reviews can now be held in any format that the organization chooses.
Auditors now expect to see evidence of a more strategically focused management review. Context, risks and opportunities need to be considered, as well as the alignment of the EMS to the organization’s overall strategic objectives.
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You should seek and record evidence of outputs from the management review process, there should be evidence of decisions regarding output from the management review process includes decisions and actions related to:
Management review output is documented in the minutes of the review meeting:
Auditors will expect to see evidence of the same types output from the management reviews as per the previous version of the standard. However, note that the results of management reviews may now be held in any format that your organization chooses.
Organizations are now required to retain documented information as evidence of the results of the management reviews
Updated: 9th February 2024
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