Posted By Simon Carrier Shane Are you trying to demonstrate legal compliance or compliance with the standard? We use a checklist to establish our legal compliance which satisfies the auditor. If you want I can send you a copy. regards

Posted By Booney Shane, our Environmental manager does his own (documented) compliance checks against the standard. Basically, he just takes areas of the standard at random and drills down into our systems and paperwork to see if we comply or not and records his findings and any non-conformances and corrective measures. In essence, just a thorough audit but of one area or clause of the standard at a time - not all of it! We have recently had our annual review for which he was complimented over his compliance evaluation so we know it works...

Posted By terryt We achieved certification to ISO14001 within the last year and I agree that at first this requirement to demonstarte how you comply with legal and other requirements was a bit confusing. It is not your internal audit process. As example is - we are a company which discharges trade effluent into the foul sewer. Law says we must have a consent from the water company to do this. We can produce a paper consent issued by water company which demonstrates that we have one. But what do we do on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis to show that we are within the consent limits? In our case we sample and test trade effluent on a regular basis and record the results. We only allow discharges that are within consent. We also have a system where the responsible manager monitors these test results and records that she has viewed them. That was the way we demonstrated that we ensured compliance with that bit of legislation.