引言1。1 ISO 14000系列ISO 14000系列由自愿标准组成，为组织提供如何更有效地管理其活动、产品和服务的环境方面的指导。该系列已经制定，并不断审查，以支持组织以负责任的方式控制环境影响的努力，并证明他们遵守满足社会、法律和监管需求的环境政策。ISO 14000系列规定了在任何行业、部门或地区运营的任何规模和类型的组织可能使用的环境管理体系（EMS）的要求，以及注册和审核此类体系的要求。 1.2环境管理体系检查表本检查表基于ISO 14001《环境管理体系——规范及使用指南》第4条，其中描述了有效环境管理体系的要求。这一系列问题可用于注册审核，在注册审核中，认证和合格的审计师审查组织的EMS绩效，或作为组织的EMS代表进行的“自我审核”的一部分。检查表问题旨在确定应在审计中评估的环境管理体系的每个特征，无论审计是出于注册目的还是出于内部审查目的。1.3进一步信息第4节中的检查表问题由摘自ISO和CSA出版物的定义和解释性意见补充。 对于任何EMS问题，需要进一步指导的读者应参考ISO 14001附录A，该附录提供了对第4条要求的评论，以及以下相关工作:CAN/CSA-ISO 14004，环境管理体系——原则、系统和支持技术的一般指南；CSA PLUS 1113，《环境责任管理的第一步:环境政策制定的综合手册》（基于ISO 14000）；CSA PLUS 1117，竞争性更精简、更敏锐、更环保:ISO 14000小企业指南；CSA加14001，ISO要素；CSA Z825，ISO 14000审核员和用户指南[草案]附录A中提供了源文件和相关出版物的完整书目。 1.4第4节“环境管理体系检查表”的布局第4节在右页列出了为满足ISO 14001中规定的环境管理体系要求而制定的问题清单。该列表遵循ISO 14001第4条的编号，但为了方便参考，在左栏中为每个问题添加了“Q”编号。封面页提供了与每页问题相关的各种材料:（a）包含CAN/CSA-ISO 14001实际文本的文本框；（b） 左边一个标题为“概念和评论”的专栏，包含从CAN/CSA-ISO 14004《环境管理体系——原则、体系和支持技术的一般指南》和CSA Z825《ISO 14000审核员和用户指南》中选出的摘录； 以及（c）标题为“定义”的右侧栏，其中包含CAN/CSA-ISO 14001第3条、ISO/DIS 14031和ISO/DIS 14050中的定义。

Introduction1.1The ISO 14000 Series The ISO 14000 series is made up of voluntary standards that provi de organizations with guidance on how to manage the environmental aspects of their activities, products, and services more effectively. The series has been developed, and is continually reviewed, to support organizations in their efforts to control environmental impacts in a responsible fashion, and to demonstrate their adherence to environmental policies that satisfy social, legal, and regulatory needs. The ISO 14000 series sets out the requirements for an environmental management system (EMS) that may be used by organizations of any size and type, operating in any industry, sector, or locale, as well as the requirements for registering and auditing such a system.1.2The EMS Checklist This checklist is based on Clause 4 of ISO 14001, Environmental management systems - Specification with guidance for use, which describes the requirements for an effective EMS. The series of questions may be used in a registration audit, in which Certified and qualified auditors review an organization's EMS performance, or as part of a ""self-audit"" by an organization's EMS representatives. The checklist questions have been designed to identify every feature of an EMS that should be evaluated in auditing, whether the audit is conducted for the purposes of registraton or for internal review.1.3Further Information The checklist questions in Section 4 are supplemented by definitions and interpretative comments excerpted from ISO and CSA publications. Readers requiring further guidance on any EMS questions should consult Annex A of ISO 14001, which provides a commentary on the requirements of Clause 4, as well as the following related works:CAN/CSA-ISO 14004, Environmental management systems - General guidelines on principles, systems and supporting techniques;CSA PLUS 1113, First Steps to Environmentally Responsible Management: A Comprehensive Workbook for Environmental Policy Development (Based on ISO 14000);CSA PLUS 1117, Competing Leaner, Keener and Greener: A Small Business Guide to ISO 14000;CSA PLUS 14001, The ISO Essentials;CSA Z825, Guide to ISO 14000 for Auditors and Users [draft]A complete bibliography of source documents and related publications is provided in Appendix A.1.4Layout of Section 4, EMS Checklist Section 4 presents, on the right-hand pages, the list of questions developed to cover the EMS requirements set out in ISO 14001. The list follows the numbering of Clause 4 of ISO 14001, but is supplemented, for convenient reference, by ""Q"" numbering for each question, noted in the left-hand column.The facing pages provide a variety of materials that are relevant to each page of questions: (a) a text box containing the actual text of CAN/CSA-ISO 14001; (b) a left-hand column, headed ""Concepts and Comments"", that contains s elected excerpts from CAN/CSA-ISO 14004, Environmental management systems - General guidelines on principles, systems and supporting techniques, and CSA Z825, Guide to ISO 14000 for Auditors and Users; and (c) a right-hand column, headed ""Definitions"", that contains definitions from Clause 3 of CAN/CSA-ISO 14001, from ISO/DIS 14031, and from ISO/DIS 14050.