This checklist audits IMS1 Section 6, covering environmental awareness, aspects, incidents, waste and the storage of oils and chemicals.

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Further Reading

Further guidance on environmental management and internal auditing:

• ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems
• Waste Management Duty of Care
• Environmental Aspects and Impacts
• Internal Auditing knowledge base

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IMS1 Section 6 Audit Checklist Template - Environmental Management

An audit checklist for Section 6 of the alphaZ IMS1 Integrated Management System Manual, covering environmental management for ISO 14001. Each question is referenced to its IMS1 section. It is set out on the F-Q2 Audit Checklist format, with the scope, criteria, auditor and date recorded at the top, and each question alongside the auditee and the evidence viewed, response and findings.

Areas Covered

• 6.1 Commitment to environmental protection - environmental awareness and the environmental staff handbook, the environmental legal requirements and updates, and the life cycle perspective on F-ENV6
• 6.2 Environmental assessment - environmental aspects, with controls for the significant ones
• 6.3 Environmental incident prevention and management - training and testing of the emergency response, significant incidents, premises checks, fire extinguishers and emergency signage
• 6.4 Waste management - bins and segregation, waste transfer notes, registered waste carriers, hazardous waste and the F-ENV2 Waste Matrix
• 6.5 Storage of oils and chemicals - storage to legal requirements, operative awareness and spill kits

Carrying Out the Audit

Section 6 is best audited on a walk round, looking at bins, storage areas, spill kits and emergency equipment, then checking the waste transfer notes, the waste matrix and the aspects register against what was seen.

Planning the Audit

Have IMS1 Section 6, the environmental aspects register, the legal register, F-ENV2, F-ENV6 and the waste transfer notes to hand.

Who Should Carry Out the Audit?

Anyone trained in internal auditing who is independent of the area being audited. The questions are written in plain language, so the checklist also works well for training new internal auditors.

Included in the ISO 14001 Toolkit

This checklist is part of the ISO 14001 Toolkit and the integrated toolkits that include ISO 14001.

Related Documents

Documents that work alongside this checklist:

• F-ENV2 Waste Matrix Form
• F-ENV6 Environmental Life Cycle Form
• F-IMS60 Environmental Aspects and Impacts Register
• F-ENV1 Waste Transfer Note

Part of the IMS1 Audit Checklists

The IMS1 audit checklists follow the sections of the alphaZ IMS1 manual. Sections 6, 7 and 8 cover environmental, health and safety and information security management, and the IMS1 ISO 9001 Checklist covers Sections 1 to 5, so the whole system can be audited across the year using the ER11 Audit Schedule. The results can be written up using the F-Q31 Audit Report.

Not Using IMS1?

For a management system that is not built on IMS1, the Environmental Management System Audit Checklist covers the same ground without the IMS1 references.

Using the Findings

Gaps in waste records, storage or emergency response are raised as actions, with anything that could cause pollution dealt with straight away.