ISO 14001

BVQI (NA)

Common Areas of Nonconformance - A Registrars Perspective

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BVQI Overview Common Nonconformances

BVQI

Worldwide organization with offices in 60 countries service 31,000 clients

Parent company Bureau Veritas is a value -added business service provider of quality, environment, and health & safety testing, certifications, classifications and more.

BVQI is the most widely accredited Registrar in the world today.

Some EMS clients:

IBM Ford Hewlett-Packard Akzo Nobel Sony International Paper DuPont Goodyear

Kodak Rolls-Royce Lockheed Martin Cisco Systems Osram Sylvania Mark IV UPS Minolta

Common Nonconformances

Categorized as either major or minor Internal Audit program Aspects/Impacts analysis Legal and Other requirements Objectives/Targets/Programs

Internal Audit Program

Schedule on each element of the standard once a year.– Schedule should be based on environmental

importance of activities and results of previous audits.

Aspects/Impacts Analysis

Aspects/Impacts analysis is based on production processes and does not include products or services.

Aspects/Impacts analysis only looks for negative impacts.

Significance criteria only works for negative impacts.

Legal and Other Requirements

Legal requirements include federal and state but overlook local requirements.– Examples include

Noise Planning Visual Odors

Access method will not work for local requirements.

Objectives/Targets/Programs

Objectives/Targets are set but there is no evidence of progress toward meeting them.

Objectives/Targets do not have correlating EMS Program.

Miscellaneous

The decision to communicate significant aspects to the public has not been recorded.

Training and awareness program does not include provisions for new employees, temporary employees or transfers between departments.

Records have retention times identified but no disposal method.

Creation of a New System

“There is nothing more difficult toplan, more doubtful of success, normore dangerous to manage than thecreation of a new system. For theinitiator has the enmity of all whowould profit by the preservation ofthe old system and the merelylukewarm defenders in those whowould gain by the new one.”

Machiavelli, 1513