EMS Documentation
Your EMS must be clearly understood by employees and external stakeholders.
You should provide EMS information to employees and external parties, such as customers, regulators, financial institutions, and the public, who need to understand how your EMS is designed and deployed. To do that, you must make sure your EMS is well documented. There are two basic categories of EMS documentation:
- EMS Manual. The EMS Manual describes the core processes within the EMS and provides direction.
- Other Documentation. This category includes other supporting documents related to the EMS like management procedures, work instructions, and forms.
The EMS Manual
The EMS Manual is a summary of how the various elements of the EMS fit together. It is a series of informative discussions that explain the processes your organization uses to conform to the EMS criteria. The manual may be a single document or a number of documents that contain the following information:
- a description of the EMS core elements (and how they relate to each other), and
- directions on how to locate other related documentation.
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5-5. Which of the following are the two basic categories of EMS documentation?
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