ISO 14001 requires a firm to have a(n) policy, specific improvement targets, audits of environmental programs, and top management review of processes.

ISO 14001 requires a firm to have an environmental policy, specific improvement targets, audits of environmental programs, and top management review of processes.

Here are the steps:

1. Environmental Policy: The organization needs to define its environmental policy. This policy should be appropriate to the nature, scale, and environmental impacts of its activities, products, or services. It should include a commitment to continual improvement and prevention of pollution.

2. Specific Improvement Targets: The organization needs to set environmental objectives and targets. These should be measurable, where practicable, and consistent with the environmental policy, including the commitment to prevention of pollution.

3. Audits of Environmental Programs: The organization needs to establish and maintain a program for periodic environmental management system audits to be carried out, in order to determine whether or not the environmental management system: a) conforms to planned arrangements for environmental management including the requirements of the ISO 14001 standard, and b) has been properly implemented and maintained.

4. Top Management Review of Processes: The organization's top management should review the organization's environmental management system, at planned intervals, to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness. This review process should ensure that the necessary information is collected to allow management to carry out this evaluation. This review should be documented.

The output from the management review should include any decisions and actions related to possible changes to environmental policy, objectives, targets and other elements of the environmental management system, consistent with the commitment to continual improvement.