Aspects Regarding Competence, Training and Awareness Requirements for the Environmental Management System Certification Audit

One of the requirements of ISO 14001 is that the organization must ensure that any person, including personnel working for and on behalf of organization, that have the potential to cause significant environmental impacts is well trained and competent. The personnel competencies can be defined by education, training and/or appropriate experience. In this regard, this paper briefly present requirements and specific documents for proper audit of requirement 4.4.2 that will constitute evidence of practical implementation of SR EN ISO 14001:2005.