Framework overlap

Does ISO 37001:2016 cover ISO 50001:2018?

You hold ISO 37001:2016 and have been told to do ISO 50001:2018. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

57% of ISO 50001:2018 you already have

ISO 37001:2016 already covers about 57% of ISO 50001:2018, leaving 20 of 46 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 23 Likely covered 3 New work 20

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO 37001:2016 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

3.1
Terms related to organization
3.2
Terms related to management system
3.3
Terms related to requirement
3.4
Terms related to performance
3.5
Terms related to energy
4.4.4
Energy baseline
4.4.5
Energy performance indicators
4.4.6
Energy objectives, energy targets and energy management action plans
4.5.4
Documentation
4.5.5
Operational control
4.5.6
Design
4.5.7
Procurement of energy services, products, equipment and energy
4.6
Checking
4.6.2
Evaluation of compliance with legal requirements and other requirements
4.6.4
Nonconformities, correction, corrective action and preventive action
4.6.5
Control of records
6.4
Energy performance indicators
6.5
Energy baseline
7.1
Resources
9.1.2
Evaluation of compliance with legal requirements and other requirements
Show the 26 you already have
10.1
Nonconformity and corrective action
10.2
Continual improvement
4.1
Understanding the organization and its context
4.2
Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties
4.3
Determining the scope of the energy management system
4.4
Energy management system
4.5.2
Competence, training and awareness
4.6.1
Monitoring, measurement and analysis
4.6.3
Internal audit of the EnMS
4.7
Management review
5.1
Leadership and commitment
7.2
Competence
7.3
Awareness
7.4
Communication
7.5
Documented information
7.5.2
Creating and updating
7.5.3
Control of documented information
8.1
Operational planning and control
8.2
Design
8.3
Procurement
9.1
Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation of energy performance and the
9.2
Internal audit
9.3
Management review
4.5.3
Communication
4.7.2
Input to management review
4.7.3
Output from management review

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO 37001:2016 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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