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Gap Analysis Ems
Gap Analysis Ems
1. Have you determined the external and internal issues that are relevant to your organization, including environmental conditions affected
by or affecting your organization?
Yes No
Document for Evidence: procedure for determining EKEDP Context and Interested parties
2. Have you determined the interested parties for your EMS, their relevant needs requirements, and which of these become compliance
obligations?
Yes No
3. Have you determined and documented the boundaries and applicability of your EMS by considering external and internal issues,
compliance obligations, physical boundaries, what you control and influence and your activities, products and services?
Yes No
4. Have you established, implemented, maintained, and continually improved an EMS including all processes needed; including interactions
and sequences of processes and assigning resources?
Yes No
5 LEADERSHIP
5. Does top management demonstrate leadership of the EMS by accounting for the efficiency of the EMS, ensuring EMS integration into
business practices, promoting improvement, and ensuring resources are available?
Yes No
6. Is an environmental policy established that is appropriate for the organization, provides a framework for environmental objectives, and
shows commitment to protecting the environment, meeting compliance obligations, and continual improvement?
Yes No
Environmental Policy
7. Is the environmental policy available, maintained, communicated, and understood by relevant interested parties?
Yes No
8. Has top management assigned responsibilities and relevant roles for the EMS development, reporting, and maintenance so that it meets
the intended goals?
Yes No
6 PLANNING
9. Has planning for the EMS considered issues and requirements that determine the risks and opportunities to be addressed?
Yes No
10. Has planning taken place to address the risks and opportunities identified and integrate these into the EMS?
Yes No
11. Have you determined the environmental aspects of your activities, products, and services, including new developments and abnormal
conditions, and maintained documented information about these?
Yes No
12. Have you determined your compliance obligations, how they apply to your organization, and taken these into account in the EMS?
Yes No
13. Have you planned to take action to address significant environmental aspects, compliance obligations, and risks and opportunities and
integrate these into your EMS processes?
Yes No
14. Have you established environmental objectives for the EMS that are measurable, monitored, communicated, updated, and documented,
and planned actions to achieve them?
Yes No
7. SUPPORT
7.1 RESOURCES
15. Have you determined the resources needed for the EMS including those for implementation, maintenance, and continual improvement?
Yes No
7.2 COMPETENCE
16. Have you determined the necessary competence required of persons who will perform functions within the EMS processes?
Yes No
7.3 AWARENESS
17. Have you taken actions to ensure persons doing work within the EMS know the environmental policy, environmental aspects,
compliance obligations, and EMS effectiveness?
Yes No
7.4 COMMUNICATION
18. Have you determined the what, when, with whom, how, and who communicates for both internal and external communications relevant
to the EMS?
Yes No
19. Have you set up a process to control documented information of the EMS including creating and updating, control of use, adequate
protection, control of distribution, and changes?
Yes No
8 OPERATION
20. Do you plan and control processes needed to meet EMS requirements, including outsourced processes, consistent with a life cycle
perspective including control of planned changes?
Yes No
21. Have you established, implemented, and maintained processes to respond to any potential emergency situations to prevent
environmental impact?
Yes No
Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan for Fire, Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan for Leakage, Emergency Preparedness
and Response Plan for Flooding and Evaluation Record of Response Actions Testing.
22. Are planned responses tested where practicable and reviewed and revised as necessary?
Yes No
9 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
23. Have you determined the monitoring and measurement needs, how it will be done, and when it shall be performed for the processes of
the EMS? Are analysis and evaluation done on the data and information arising from monitoring and measurement?
Yes No
24. Have you established, implemented and maintained a process to evaluate how you fulfill your compliance obligations?
Yes No
25. Are there audit procedures to evaluate the EMS against the planned arrangements (including effectiveness and maintenance) at planned
intervals? Are results reported to management?
Yes No
Procedure for Internal Audit
Internal Audit Checklist, Annual Program of Internal Audits, Audit Plan and Internal Audit Report.
26. Does top management review the data from the EMS to assess the need for change in the EMS, resource adequacy, and the effectiveness
of the EMS?
Yes No
Matrix of Environmental Performance, Data Analysis Report and Management Review Minutes.
10 IMPROVEMENT
10.1 GENERAL
27. Do you identify opportunities for improvement and implement action to achieve the intended outcomes of the EMS?
Yes No
28. When a nonconformity occurs, do you take action to deal with the nonconformity and deal with the consequences, evaluate the need to
eliminate the root cause of the nonconformity, and review the effectiveness of the corrective action taken?
Yes No
Environmental Nonconformity Record, Corrective Action Record and Registry and Status of Corrective Actions and Nonconformities.
29. After action is taken, do you assess the effects, including the environmental impacts, and update the EMS if necessary?
Yes No
30. Do you continually improve the suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness of the EMS?
Yes No