The organization's top management ensures that responsibilities for relevant environmental roles are assigned, communicated, and understood within the organization. Along with responsibilities, these roles usually require authorizations for certain actions so that the responsibilities can be successfully fulfilled.
When necessary, these roles are also defined in the process sequence in relevant steps, for example, who can carry out an environmental review, inspection, approval, or monitoring action within a process.
Top management clearly assigns responsibility at least for:
- management system ownership (ensuring that the environmental management system conforms to selected requirements)
- process ownership (ensuring that processes deliver their intended environmental outcomes)
- performance communication (reporting on the environmental performance of the management system and identifying opportunities for improvement)
- environmental focus ownership (ensuring the promotion of environmental protection and related priorities throughout the organization)
- management system continuity (ensuring that the integrity of the environmental management system is maintained when changes are planned and implemented)
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