Framework overlap

Does ISO 15189:2022 cover ISO 14004:2016?

You hold ISO 15189:2022 and have been told to do ISO 14004:2016. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

33% of ISO 14004:2016 you already have

ISO 15189:2022 already covers about 33% of ISO 14004:2016, leaving 27 of 40 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 2 Likely covered 11 New work 27

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO 15189:2022 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

10.3.1
Opportunities for improvement
10.3.2
Implementation of continual improvement
3.1
Terms related to organization and leadership
3.2
Terms related to planning
3.3
Terms related to support and operation
3.4
Terms related to performance evaluation and improvement
4.2.2
Determining relevant interested parties
4.2.3
Determining relevant needs and expectations of relevant interested parties
4.2.4
Determining compliance obligations
4.2.5
Use and application of the needs and expectations of interested parties
5.3
Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities
6.1.2
Environmental aspects
6.1.4
Planning action
6.2
Environmental objectives and planning to achieve them
6.2.4
Performance indicators
7.1
Resources
7.2
Competence
7.3
Awareness
7.4.2
Internal communication
7.4.3
External communication
7.5
Documented information
7.5.3
Control of documented information
8.2
E mergency p rep arednes s and res p o ns e
9.1
M o nito ring, meas urement, analys is and evaluatio n
9.1.2
Evaluation of compliance
9.2
Internal audit
9.3
Management review
Show the 13 you already have
6.1
Actions to address risks and opportunities
8.1.1
General guidance: Operational control
10.3
Continual improvement
4.1
Understanding the organization and its context
4.2
Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties
5.1
Leadership and commitment
6.1.3
Compliance obligations
6.2.2
Establishing environmental objectives
6.2.3
Planning actions to achieve environmental objectives
7.4
Communication
7.5.2
Creating and updating
8.1
Operational planning and control
8.1.3
Establishing operational controls

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO 15189:2022 to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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