Environmental management is the workflow for handling your environmental management obligations under ISO 14001 — environmental aspects and impacts, ESG risks, compliance obligations, and the environmental objectives programme.
🆕 What's new: The Environmental management workflow brings together what used to be spread across themed lists. Your existing environmental processes, ESG risks, and compliance records are all here, exactly as they were — just on one focused page.
When this workflow appears
Environmental management is visible when you have ISO 14001 active among your frameworks. Activate it and the workflow appears in the Workflows list on the Dashboard. Deactivate ISO 14001 and the workflow returns to the framework-specific catalogue.
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Setting it up
Environmental management is a framework-specific workflow — there's no separate guided setup. The workflow is available directly; configuration (owner, environmental documentation, related tasks) is handled inline on the page when relevant.
What's on the page
Main metrics
A single trend line: your ISO 14001 compliance score over time, sourced directly from the compliance view. This is the one metric the workflow optimises against — there are no separate operational counters for environmental management.
Documentation
The documentation that backs your environmental management practice, organised into two groups:
Assets
- Environmental processes — the processes that have an environmental dimension
- Environmental aspects & impacts — the elements of your activities that interact with the environment
Records
- Environmental objectives — your stated environmental performance objectives
- ESG risks — environmental, social, and governance risks
- Compliance obligations — the legal and other obligations the organisation must meet
Each documentation row shows the total item count, items still to work on, the related ISMS theme, and the responsible owner.
Tasks
Below the documentation, the workflow page lists the operational tasks tied to environmental management — aspects identification routines, objectives setting, emergency preparedness, compliance evaluations. Each task shows its theme, status (Untreated / Partly done / Mostly done / Fully done), owner, priority (Low / Normal / High / Critical), and due date.
Reports
The audit-ready outputs Environmental management produces:
- Environmental policy and objectives — the foundational policy and the objectives derived from it
- EMS description and scope — describes the environmental management system and its boundaries
Reports refresh from your live data, so they're always current.
How it connects to other workflows
Environmental management is a relatively standalone workflow — it has its own framework basis (ISO 14001) and its own object types (aspects, impacts, ESG risks). The closest links are to Continuous improvement, where environmental improvement actions are tracked, and to Management reviews, where environmental performance is a standard agenda item under ISO 14001.
