
Environmental Management Systems – Internal Auditing
Description
Environmental Management Systems: Internal Auditing provides audit checklists to help organizations assess the compliance of their environmental management system (EMS) with most EMS models, including ISO 14001:2015. The guide provides a series of detailed audit criteria covering each key element of an EMS, including context and scope, leadership, planning, support, operation, evaluation and review, and improvement.
The guide contains a single module, with the following parts:
• Introduction, providing a discussion applicability and EMS standards, and key definitions of terms.
• Pre-audit Preparation, providing lists of documents and records to review prior to conducting an
audit, and items to have available for review during an audit.
• Rulebook, providing audit criteria based on the key elements of most EMS models, with guide notes
to be used by the auditor to assess conformance with the criteria.
• Scoresheet, allowing quick recording of the organization’s compliance status.
The guide is sold together with the implementation guide ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems: A Complete Implementation Guide