‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌The Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle describes how we apply the Environmental Management System to drive progress and continual improvements.

• Context of the Organisation 2025 (PDF, 324kB)
• Risks and Opportunities 2025 (PDF, 192kB)
• ISO 14001:2015 structure (PDF, 47kB)

PLAN: what you’re going to do

• ‌Policy and Strategy for Sustainability‌
• Environmental legislation (PDF, 881kB)
• Legal Register Updates and Responsibilities Procedure (PDF, 177kB)
• Aspects and Impacts Significance Procedures (PDF, 294kB)
• Action Plan (PDF, 5,987kB)
• EMS- organisational roles and responsibilities (PDF, 121kB)

 DO: what you planned to do‌

• ‌Environmental Management Manual (PDF, 175kB)
• System Forms‌
• Competence, Training and Awareness Procedure (PDF, 202kB)
• Competence Assessment (PDF, 170kB)
• Document Control (PDF, 227kB)
• Records Control (PDF, 185kB)
• Environmental Communications Procedure (PDF, 288kB)
• EMS Communications 2025 (PDF, 163kB)
• Annual Sustainability Report (PDF, 4.32MB)

CHECK: to ensure that you did what you planned

• Operational Procedures 
• Emergency Preparedness and Response
• Compliance Checks Procedure (PDF, 181kB)
• Internal Audits Procedure (PDF, 197kB)
• Internal Audit Programme 2024 (PDF, 103kB)
• ‌Internal Audit Programme (PDF, 196kB)
• Management Review Procedure (PDF, 217kB)

ACT: to make improvements

• ‌‌Monitoring and Measurement (PDF, 162kB)
• Nonconformity, Corrective Action and Preventive Action (PDF, 73kB)

If you would like to access any of these documents in a different file format then please email sustainability-estates@bristol.ac.uk and we will respond to you in a different format. ‌