In management of environment for an organization as per ISO 14001, carrying out risk assessment for its environmental aspects is a requirement. Right assessment of risks arising from environmental aspects, leads to right decision making for the purpose of prevention and control of environmental aspects.
One methodology for carrying out risk assessment of environmental aspects, that has basic factors well considered is given below. It has been used by many good organizations and has benefitted them in management of environment.
This methodology of risk assessment is modified by using excel sheet – for ease of working. Please know that template given below requires only ‘drop down’ list to choose what is applicable and the background data is built-in under row1 of excel sheet that is hidden. You may kindly download the template of carrying out risk assessment of environmental aspects: