Framework overlap

Does ISO 19011:2018 cover ISO 14001:2015?

You hold ISO 19011:2018 and have been told to do ISO 14001:2015. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

72% of ISO 14001:2015 you already have

ISO 19011:2018 already covers about 72% of ISO 14001:2015, leaving 10 of 36 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 20 Likely covered 6 New work 10

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO 19011:2018 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

10.2
Nonconformity and corrective action
3.3
Terms related to support and operation
3.4
Terms related to performance evaluation and improvement
4.4
Environmental management system
6.1.2
Environmental aspects
6.2
Environmental objectives and planning to achieve them
7.1
Resources
7.3
Awareness
8.1
Operational planning and control
9.1
Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation
Show the 26 you already have
10.3
Continual improvement
3.1
Terms related to organization and leadership
3.2
Terms related to planning
4.1
Understanding the organization and its context
4.2
Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties
5.3
Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities
6.1
Actions to address risks and opportunities
6.1.4
Planning action
6.2.1
Environmental objectives
6.2.2
Planning actions to achieve environmental objectives
7.2
Competence
7.4
Communication
7.4.2
Internal communication
7.4.3
External communication
7.5.2
Creating and updating
7.5.3
Control of documented information
9.1.2
Evaluation of compliance
9.2
Internal audit
9.2.2
Internal audit programme
9.3
Management review
4.3
Determining the scope of the environmental management system
5.1
Leadership and commitment
5.2
Environmental policy
6.1.3
Compliance obligations
7.5
Documented information
8.2
Emergency preparedness and response

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO 19011:2018 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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