Exam: Manager of Environmental Management System according to ISO 14001:2015

What is the purpose of forms?

How often the management system procedures should be updated?

For what purpose are corrective actions taken?

Preventive actions:

Staff competences. Select the correct sentence.

Is it required to establish rules for creating, updating and distributing of documents and records?

What is action to eliminate the cause of a nonconformity and to prevent its recurrence

Deming’s PDCA cycle is as follows:

Identification and traceability. Select correct answers.

Processes. Select the correct sentences.

Who is responsible for providing resources in the organization?

What is continuous improvement?

What is process?

What are records?

Who can approve documents in an organization?

What does it mean to be competent?

Can the lack of competences generate nonconformities?

Should competencies be supervised and managed?

What should be understood as the environment?

Where does human impact on the environment end?

In the system, we are obliged to define the context of the organization. This action is based on:

What statements do we need to make in our environmental policy?

What is a procedure in an environmental management system?

Do we need to define the scope of the environmental management system?

What are the tasks of the top management in the environmental management system?

Does manager have to be appointed in the environmental management system?

Do we have to identify risks in the environmental management system?

What should we consider when identifying environmental aspects?

What impact can the company have on the environment?

Do we have to identify the legal requirements that are imposed on us?

Do we need to take any action after identifying the risk?

How should the environmental objectives be formulated?

What is necessary to do in the scope of plans of achieving environmental goals?

Does management need to undertake awareness-raising activities for staff and suppliers?

What is operational control and what is its role?

What is an operating criteria and what is its role?

Do we have to define procedures to prepare us for emergency?

What is the purpose of an environmental management system audit?

What the organization have to do in terms of legal requirements?

When can corrective actions be taken in the environmental management system?

Assess the presented situation: “The company” uses machine oils. Used oils are stored in sealed, unmarked containers standing on the ground outside the production hall. By law, used oils are hazardous substances that must be labeled and prevented from leaking into the environment.

Assess the presented situation: According to the maintenance procedure in the “Company”, the operator of the post-production wastewater treatment process should replace carbon filtr used to filtration every other week. However, he does not do it. Asked why, he explains that he has never done it since he has been working here (5 years), and he knows nothing about the procedure.

Assess the presented situation: Records of internal calibration of measuring devices used to study the environmental impact of the organization are made by hand, with a pencil in a notebook located at the measuring station.

Assess the situation: The “Company” has a register of environmental aspects, with significant aspects marked, but it is not explained how it was determined which aspects were significant. When asked about this, the employee replied that he did not know how it was determined, as he had already received a completed table from an environmental protection specialist.

Assess the situation: “The company” transfers the municipal waste it generates to the company “Trash”, which deals with its transport and storage. The “company” has a contract for this, but the employees are not able to answer whether “Trash” has the permits required by law for the transport and storage of waste.