The environmental management system in a building company in the aspect of the requirements of the PN-EN ISO 14001:2015-09 standard

The article presents the environmental management system in a building company from the process perspective which meets the requirements of the international ISO 14001 standard. A new issue of this document from September 2015 introduced essentials changes in the attitude of building the system, its structure and in ways of documentation. The article is to precede an attempt of working out the criteria and parameters of the effectiveness of the assumed structure of processes, which will be a subject of next article. In the first part of the article, the justification for using the process approach in building the environmental management system was depicted – the modern concept which determines the effectiveness of action. The second part presents the theoretical model of the process structure of the environmental management system, which when adopted to the needs of a given building company may become a basis for the preparation of an effective system in practice.