Environmental Management System
The Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle describes how we apply the Environmental Management System to drive progress and continual improvements.
- Context of the Organisation (PDF, 219kB)
- Risks and Opportunities (PDF, 137kB)
- ISO 14001:2015 structure (PDF, 47kB)
PLAN: what you’re going to do
- Policy and Strategy for Sustainability
- Environmental Legislation (PDF, 993kB)
- Legal Register Updates and Responsibilities Procedure (PDF, 150kB)
- Aspects and Impacts Significance Procedures (PDF, 167kB)
- Action Plan (PDF, 5.33MB)
- EMS- organisational roles and responsibilities (PDF, 121kB)
DO: what you planned to do
- Environmental management manual (PDF, 150kB)
- System Forms
- Competence, Training and Awareness Procedure (PDF, 181kB)
- Competence assessment (PDF, 160kB)
- Document Control (PDF, 165kB)
- Records control (PDF, 154kB)
- Environmental Communications Procedure (PDF, 206kB)
- EMS Communications 2024 (PDF, 56kB)
- Annual Sustainability Report (PDF, 4.32MB)
CHECK: to ensure that you did what you planned
- Operational Procedures
- Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Compliance Checks Procedure (PDF, 157kB)
- Internal Audit Procedure (PDF, 140kB)
- Internal Audit Programme 2024 (PDF, 103kB)
- Management Review Procedure (PDF, 111kB)
- Management Review Agenda (PDF, 38kB)
ACT: to make improvements
- Monitoring and Measurement (PDF, 162kB)
- Nonconformity, Corrective Action and Preventive Action (PDF, 73kB)
If you would like to access any of these documents in a different file format then please email sustainability-estates@bristol.ac.uk and we will respond to you in a different format.
Historical EMS
Here are some of our completed EMS Documents for previous years