Framework overlap

Does ISO 50001:2018 cover ISO 14004:2016?

You hold ISO 50001:2018 and have been told to do ISO 14004:2016. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

50% of ISO 14004:2016 you already have

ISO 50001:2018 already covers about 50% of ISO 14004:2016, leaving 20 of 40 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 14 Likely covered 6 New work 20

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO 50001:2018 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

10.3.1
Opportunities for improvement
10.3.2
Implementation of continual 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
Actions to address risks and opportunities
6.1.2
Environmental aspects
6.1.3
Compliance obligations
6.1.4
Planning action
6.2
Environmental objectives and planning to achieve them
6.2.2
Establishing environmental objectives
6.2.3
Planning actions to achieve environmental objectives
6.2.4
Performance indicators
7.4.2
Internal communication
7.4.3
External communication
8.1.3
Establishing operational controls
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
Show the 20 you already have
10.3
Continual improvement
3.1
Terms related to organization and leadership
3.4
Terms related to performance evaluation and improvement
4.1
Understanding the organization and its context
4.2
Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties
5.1
Leadership and commitment
7.2
Competence
7.5
Documented information
7.5.2
Creating and updating
7.5.3
Control of documented information
8.1
Operational planning and control
8.1.1
General guidance: Operational control
9.2
Internal audit
9.3
Management review
3.2
Terms related to planning
3.3
Terms related to support and operation
7.1
Resources
7.3
Awareness
7.4
Communication
9.1.2
Evaluation of compliance

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO 50001:2018 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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