ISO-14001-Lead-Auditor Exam Dumps : PECB Certified EMS ISO 14001 Lead Auditor Exam

As per ISO 14001:2015 Clause 10 (Improvement) and Clause 9 (Performance Evaluation):

The 'Check' phase includes activities that evaluate performance, such as:

Clause 9.1:

“The organization shall monitor, measure, analyze and evaluate its environmental performance.”

Clause 10.2:

“When a nonconformity occurs, the organization shall react to the nonconformity, evaluate the need for corrective action.”

Management review is part of the 'Act' phase (Clause 9.3), and Environmental Policy (Clause 5.2) belongs to 'Plan'.

From ISO 19011:2018:

Clause 5.4.3:

“The audit plan should consider the potential impact on the auditee's processes during audit activities to minimize disruption.”

Clause 5.2 and 5.3:

“The audit programme frequency should be based on the significance of the environmental aspects, past audit results, changes, and risks.”

Internal auditors auditing their own work violates auditor impartiality (Clause 4.4.2 - Auditor Independence).

Second-party audits are customer-supplier audits, not certification body audits (Clause 3.7 - Audit Types).

EMS auditors must consider the organization's preparedness for emergencies (ISO 14001:2015 Clause 8.2).

According to ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 Clause 9.3.2.1:

The main purpose of Stage 1 is:

“To evaluate the client's management system documentation and preparedness for Stage 2 audit.”

This includes reviewing:

The status of implementation.

The client’s understanding of requirements.

Readiness for the Stage 2 audit.

While the auditor will learn about the organization (B) and may draft plans (C), these are supporting activities. Legal compliance checks (D) occur in Stage 2.