BS 8901:2009 pdf free.Specification for a sustainability management system for events.
BS 8901 The organization shall maintain and control documents and records. The organization shall ensure, where appropriate, that its suppliers contribute to its documentation. The documentation shall include:
a) documents, including records, required by this standard; and
b) documents, including records, determined by the organization to be necessary to ensure the effective planning, operation and control of processes that relate to its significant sustainable development issues.
Checking and corrective action
Monitoring and measurement
The organization shall establish and maintain procedures to monitor and measure on a regular basis the key characteristics of its operations and activities that can affect the delivery of its policy, objectives and targets. This shall include the recording of information to track performance, relevant operational controls and conformance with the organization’s objectives and targets.
The organization shall identify lessons learned from each event and will feed this learning into the planning and delivery of future events/event related activity and, where practicable, make the information available to others.
Where practicable, equipment that is provided by the organization, used for gathering data relevant to the sustainability management system shall be calibrated and maintained and records of this process shall be retained according to the organization’s procedures.
Evaluating compliance
The organization shall periodically evaluate its compliance with legal and other requirements to which the organization subscribes.
Nonconformity and corrective and preventive actions
The organization shall establish and maintain procedures defining responsibility and authority for handling and investigating nonconformance, taking action to mitigate any impacts caused and for initiating and completing corrective and preventive action.
The organization shall conduct management reviews at regular intervals appropriate to the scale and frequency of its involvement in events. The organization shall synchronize management reviews with the event life cycle, or where there is continual involvement in multiple events, conduct management reviews at intervals that maximize learning opportunities from different events.BS 8901 pdf download.