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Environmental aspects registerEnvironment & sustainability

Know which activities affect the environment and how you control them

The environmental aspects register records which of your activities have an environmental impact, how significant that impact is and how you control it. Significant aspects that are not sufficiently controlled can be turned straight into an improvement action or environmental objective. That makes the register the foundation of your ISO 14001 system.

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Features

What you do with Environmental aspects register

Guided aspect wizard

For each aspect you record the theme, environmental impacts, activity, location, situation and life cycle stage. Likelihood and severity (1 to 5) produce the significance score.

Significance with reasons

An aspect also becomes significant when a compliance obligation applies, it is not controlled or complaints are already known. You always see the reason, and a manual override requires a justification.

Effects matrix

Aspects set against environmental impact categories at a glance, with significant aspects in red. You can adjust the ten default categories in the settings.

AI draft list

AI suggests aspects based on your sector, processes, substance register, reports and inspections, and explains why. You choose to add, edit and add, or reject each one.

Missing aspects check

A signalling layer looks at your substance register, transport, reports, significant aspects without follow-up and compliance without evidence. It also works without AI.

Reviews and management review

When the next review date passes, the owner gets a task. The Management review button gives counts and lists as input for your management review.

In practice

How it works

  1. 1

    Add an aspect

    Click New aspect and work through aspect and impact, origin, and weighting and owner. The owner is a job role, not a person.

  2. 2

    Assess significance

    The system calculates significance. On the Assessment tab you switch to the extended view for a deeper assessment or a justified override.

  3. 3

    Control and evidence

    Record the control measures and note under compliance and evidence whether an obligation applies, together with the supporting evidence.

  4. 4

    Create follow-up

    If an aspect is significant and not sufficiently controlled, you create an improvement action or environmental objective straight away, prefilled and linked to its source.

  5. 5

    Review periodically

    Plan the annual review with the next review date and mark the aspect as reviewed once you have assessed it again.

A selection of what AI does in Environmental aspects register

AI proposes aspects and flags what is missing, and you add, edit or reject them.

AI draft list of aspects

Based on your sector, processes, substances register, reports and inspections, AI proposes a draft list with the reason for each proposal, and you add, edit or reject each one.

Flagging missing aspects

The signalling layer checks the substances register, transport, reports and compliance without evidence, and when AI is on it adds AI signals.

Questions about aspects

On the AI tab you ask, for example, which aspects are significant or where to set priorities.

This is a selection of the AI capabilities in this module, not everything. AI suggests, you decide. Nothing is applied without your approval.

Standards and legislation

Where it helps you

BrydgeOne contains no text of the standards. Here you see which topics from standards and legislation this module helps you with.

ISO 14001

Covers clause 6.1.2: identifying environmental aspects, assessing their significance and controlling them, with a register that serves as core evidence.
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Works together with

Every module works on its own. Switch on more and they fill each other in automatically.

ActionsControl actions and reassessments run as actions Objectives & KPIsCreate an environmental objective from an aspect ProcessesAspects are linked to a process Energy & EmissionsEmission sources refer to the environmental aspect Environmental reportsEnvironmental reports feed AI suggestions and the missing aspects check Hazardous substancesSubstances without an environmental aspect are flagged Management reviewSignificant and uncontrolled aspects are included as input StakeholdersLink the aspect to a requirement in the requirements register Incidents & reportsNuisance incidents without an environmental aspect are flagged Environmental inspectionsInspection findings feed AI suggestions for aspects Audit-ready checkFor ISO 14001 an empty or outdated register is flagged Standards frameworkThe register counts as core evidence for ISO 14001
Knowledge base

Read more about Environmental aspects register

ISO 14001: how to build an environmental management systemISO 14001 helps you control and gradually reduce the environmental impact of your organisation. The standard revolves around insight into your environmental aspects, compliance with obligations and demonstrable improvement. Here is how to build the system. Identifying environmental aspects: how to inventory and assess themIdentifying environmental aspects starts with a walk through what your organisation does and where it touches the environment. Here you will read how to inventory aspects, assess their significance and attach measures, with example lines for an environmental aspects register.
Glossary

Terms related to Environmental aspects register

ISO 14001ISO 14001 Environmental management systemsEnvironmental aspectEnvironmental aspect
Frequently asked questions

Questions about Environmental aspects register

What makes an aspect significant?

A calculated score (likelihood times severity) above the threshold, your justified manual assessment, or one of the automatic rules, such as an applicable compliance obligation, an uncontrolled aspect or known complaints. Each significant aspect shows the reason.

How often should the register be reviewed?

At least once a year, using the review date per aspect, and whenever processes, substances or permits change. When the date passes, the owner gets a task to reassess the aspect.

Can I change the environmental impact categories?

Yes. An administrator adjusts the list and the significance threshold in the module settings. Existing aspects keep their ticked categories, and you can always return to the default list.

Does the register work across multiple locations?

Yes. With Copy you duplicate an aspect for another location or process, and with Filters you view the register per location.

Start small

Start with just Environmental aspects register and expand when you want

You do not have to set up everything at once. Switch this module on, add other modules later and keep using the same data and the same app. BrydgeOne fits every organisation, from a small company to enterprise, and you only pay for what you switch on, from € 49 per month.

Environmental aspects registerStart hereActionsAdd laterObjectives & KPIsAdd laterProcessesAdd laterEnergy & EmissionsAdd later

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You only pay for the modules you switch on, from € 49 per month. In a demo we show how it works with your own processes.

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