Set up your Aspects register

Aspect Categories

1. We provide a list of example Aspect categories for you to use however you can edit, remove or add your own.

2. Once you are happy, click Next.

Life Cycle Stage

1. You are required to consider the life cycle when determining your aspects.

Select the Enable this function? tick box to add this function to your register, which will allow you to add a life cycle stage when creating each of your aspects.

We provide you with 7 standard life cycle stages however you can edit, remove or add to these to suit your organisation.

2. Once you are happy, click Next.

Area / Process

1. This stage allows you to set up any other kind of grouping that you feel would benefit your aspects register.

Select the Enable this function? tick box to add this function to your register.

Again we have provided you with examples, however you can edit, remove and add.

2. Once you are happy, click Next.

Significance Evaluation

This feature is designed for you to establish the criteria which you are going to use to evaluate your environmental aspects for significance.

1. A default significance evaluation has been provided for normal, abnormal and emergency situations covering the requirements in the ISO 14001 Standard. It allows for a thorough assessment of each aspect to fully determine what aspects are significant for the organisation.

Click View if you wish to review the questions and scoring.

You can change the score of the significance threshold at a later stage, once you have added your aspects to your register.

2. If you are happy with the default criteria provided, click Complete.

Alternatively, you can add your own significance evaluation criteria by clicking Add Your Own Significance Evaluation Criteria in the top right corner.

3. From here you can delete, edit or add to the questions and scoring, and change from multiplication to addition or division.

4. Once you have created your significance evaluation criteria, click Save Significance Evaluation Criteria.

5. You can now select which criteria you wish to use for each operating condition.