THE PLAN-DO-CHECK-ACT COMPONENTS OF
ISO
50001
What is the underlying foundation
for the
PLAN-DO-CHECK-ACT (PDCA)
continual
Improvement structure
of an ISO 50001 energy management system
(EnMS)? (Click here for detailed
graphic)
Management responsibility —
Demonstrate
top management’s
commitment and support to
the EnMS and to continual
improvement of its
Effectiveness and the organization’s energy performance.
Roles, responsibility and authority —
appoint an energy champion
and an
energy team, and define and communicate expectations for energy management and
energy performance
improvement behaviors
and actions.
Energy policy — Develop and implement top
management’s
statement
of the
organization’s commitments related to energy to provide direction
for energy performance improvement
activities.
What’s addressed in energy PLANning
?
Energy review
— Analyze energy data, identify the significant energy uses, and prioritize the
organization’s opportunities for energy performance improvement.
Energy baseline
— Define a period of time to serve as a basis for comparison of energy performance.
Energy performance indicators (EnPIs) — Develop quantitative measures of energy performance.
Objectives and targets — decide on the energy performance improvement goals
to be achieved by the organization.
Energy management action plans — Plan the actions, responsibilities and methods needed
to achieve and verify the improvements stated in the energy objectives and targets.
How DO the outputs from energy planning
get implemented?
Competence, training and awareness — Ensure that employees and contractors are aware of and
capable of carrying out their energy management responsibilities.
Communication
— Implement processes for internal and external communication about the EnMS and
the organization’s energy performance.
Documentation
— Maintain documented information on the EnMS.
Control of documents — Establish processes for managing documents to ensure that current and
accurate information is available.
Operational control — Plan the operations associated with your significant energy uses, objectives
and targets, and action plans to ensure that those operations are resourced and
carried out consistently.
Design — consider
opportunities for improving energy performance in design activities for new, modified
or renovated facilities, equipment, systems and processes.
Procurement
— Make energy performance a factor in purchasing decisions when significant energy
uses are involved.
What Processes CHECK on how the EnMS is Doing?
Monitoring, measurement and analysis — Monitor, measure and analyze the key characteristics
of activities that determine energy performance.
Evaluation of compliance — Assess the status of compliance with applicable legal
requirements and other energy requirements adopted by or committed to by the organization.
Internal audit
— Verify that the EnMS is functioning properly and generating the planned results.
Nonconformities, correction,
corrective and preventive action — Identify and correct actual and potential problems.
Control of records — Maintain information that indicates the results achieved or provides
evidence of the activities performed.
How does the management ACT for continual improvement?
Management review — Review the results and performance of the EnMS and take action to ensure
its continuing suitability, adequacy, effectiveness and continual improvement in
energy performance.
