Audit Guidance
Conformance
Status
1. Environmental aspects has been broadened to take into account planned or
new developments, or new or modified activities, products or services within
the EMS scope that it can control.
NOTE: ISO 14001-1996 edition states – “when identifying the environmental
aspects of its activities, products or services that it can control and over which
it can be expected to have influence”
NOTE: Controls may consist of changing input material, reducing or
eliminating waste products, projects that minimize or prevent adverse
pollution, or implementing specific operating criteria to prevent or mitigate
potential adverse impacts
NOTE:Organizations do not have to consider each product, component or
raw material input individually. They may select categories of activities,
products and services to identify their environmental aspects.