Identify the current environmental, legal and other non-regulatory environmental requirements for the organisation and determine compliance

This standard describes the skills and knowledge requirements for those who identify the current environmental, legal requirements and other non-regulatory environmental requirements for an organisation and determine compliance.

Identification may be carried out when an organisation first decides to evaluate the current environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements, or as part of continual improvement.

This standard is suitable for:

·        Anyone with responsibility within an organisation for identifying current environmental, legal and other non-regulatory environmental requirements for the organisation and determine compliance.

This standard covers the identification of current environmental legislation and other non-regulatory environmental requirements which relates to the organisation, plus any sector, customer, or organisation-specific requirements.  These could include schemes which adhere to good practice or added-value services.  Legislation can come across the devolved nations, locally, regional, as well as National and International legislation.

It also covers the evaluation of environmental performance of the organisation against the current environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements to determine compliance and ensuring that the ongoing compliance with environmental legal requirements is demonstrated by management, documentation, and communication.

Organisations need to be accountable for how they manage their impact on the environment, they need to become more sustainable.  The organisation needs to look at their carbon impact at global as well as a local level.  This will also involve assessing the impact.

1. The key internal and external relevant stakeholders, including those from protected characteristics, to the organisation
2. The relevant environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements applicable to the organisation
3. How to access relevant sources of information on current environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements and expertise
4. How to determine the requirements of current environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements apply to the environmental aspects of the organisation
5. The key environmental regulators and enforcement bodies
6. The consequences to the organisation, associated with breaching relevant environmental legislation
7. The requirements for legal environmental documentation relevant to the organisation
8. Other environmental requirements applicable to the sector and the organisation
9. The reasons for evaluating compliance with current environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements of the organisation
10. The different methods available for evaluating compliance with current environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements of the organisation
11. How to engage relevant stakeholders in the process of identifying and evaluating compliance with current environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements
12. The purpose and use of control mechanisms to aid the organisations compliance with current environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements
13. The process for identification and implementation of corrective, preventative or improvement actions
14. The methods for communicating the outcome of evaluation to determine compliance with current environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements
15. The environmental aspects associated with abnormal and emergency situations with the organisation
16. The reasons for maintaining an awareness of current environmental, legal, and non-regulatory environmental other requirements
17. The different methods available for confirming ongoing compliance with current environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements of the organisation
18. How to record your findings in an organisationally approved format

​Other environmental requirements: discharge consents, process licences, permits and authorisation documents, waste documentation including transfer notes, site waste management plans, hazardous waste consignment notes