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Terms and Definitions

ISO 14001:2015 EMS

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Environment:

• Surroundings in which an organization operates, including air, water,

land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans and their
interrelationships.

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Management System:

• Set of interrelated or interacting elements of an organization to

establish policies and objectives and processes to achieve those
objectives.

Environmental Management System:

• Part of the management system used to manage environmental

aspects, fulfil compliance obligations, and address risks and
opportunities.

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Interested Party

• Person or organization that can affect, be affected by, or

perceive themselves to be affected by a decision or activity.
Interested Parties:
 Workers (all employees including officers)
 External Providers and Contractors
 Owners / Shareholders / Partners
 Society / Neighbors / Communities
 Government / Control Bodies
 Non-governmental Organizations
 Insurance
 Certification Body
 Top Management

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Environmental Aspect:

• Element of an organization’s activities or products or services that

interacts or can interact with the environment.

Servicing Aspect

Car Washing Waste (Oil, dirt) water

Drains to river

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Environmental Impact:

• Change to environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or

partially resulting from an organization’s environmental aspects.

Servicing Aspect Impact

Car Washing Waste (Oil, dirt) water Water Pollution

Drains to river

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Objective:

• Result to be achieved.

Environmental Objective:

• Objective set by the organization consistent with its environmental

policy.

Environmental Policy:

• Intentions and direction of an organization related to environmental

performance, as formally expressed by its top management.

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Prevention of Pollution:

• Use of processes, practices, techniques, materials, products, services

or energy to avoid, reduce or control (separately or in combination) the
creation, emission or discharge of any type of pollutant or waste, in
order to reduce adverse environmental impacts.

Environmental Condition:

• State or characteristic of the environment as determined at a certain

point in time.

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Compliance Obligations (preferred term):

Legal Requirements and Other Requirements (admitted term):

• Legal requirements that an organization has to comply with and other

requirements that an organization has to or chooses to comply with.

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Risk:

• Effect of uncertainty.

Risks and Opportunities:

• Potential adverse effects (threats) and potential beneficial effects

(opportunities).

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Documented Information:

• Information required to be controlled and maintained by an

organization and the medium on which it is contained.

 Controlled: Document No. with Revision No. / Version No. / Issue No.

 Maintained: Updating Registers / Forms / Communications and Retain.

Documented Information can be in any format and media and from any source.

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Life Cycle:
• Consecutive and interlinked stages of a product (or service) system, from raw
material acquisition or generation from natural resources to final disposal.

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Audit:

• Systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining audit

evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which
the audit criteria are fulfilled.
Conformity:

• Fulfilment of a requirement.
Nonconformity:

• Non-fulfilment of a requirement.

Corrective Action:

• Action to eliminate the cause of a nonconformity and to prevent

recurrence.
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Effectiveness:

• Extent to which planned activities are realized and planned results

achieved.

Continual Improvement:

• Recurring activity to enhance performance.

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Indicator:

• Measurable representation of the condition or status of operations,

management or conditions.

Measurement:

• Process to determine a value.

Monitoring:

• Determining the status of a system, a process or an activity.

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Competence:

• Ability to apply knowledge and skills to achieve intended results.

Performance:

• Measurable result.

Environmental Performance:

• Performance related to the management of environmental aspects.

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 Role is particular Position / Designation / Status in a group or

organization.

 Authority is the right to make a decision or take an action.

 Responsibility is the obligation to ensure that an action is taken.

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 Frequently used words in the standard ISO 14001:2015 EMS.

 Establish (To gain full recognition or acceptance of; set up on a permanent basis)
 Implement (Performance of an obligation)

 Maintain (Enable to continue)

 Continually Improve (Improve with breaks; improve very often)
 Control (Keep the process within the established criteria)

 Process (What to be done)

 Determine (Establish exactly by research or calculation)
 Ensure (Make sure, provide all resources & support till getting intended results)
 Effectiveness (Planned activities realized; acceptable)
 Evaluation (Making of a judgment about the amount, number or value of something;
assessment)
 Maintain Documented Information
 Retain Documented Information
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