Framework overlap

Does ISO/IEC 23894:2023 cover ISO 14001:2015?

You hold ISO/IEC 23894:2023 and have been told to do ISO 14001:2015. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

58% of ISO 14001:2015 you already have

ISO/IEC 23894:2023 already covers about 58% of ISO 14001:2015, leaving 15 of 36 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 5 Likely covered 16 New work 15

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO/IEC 23894:2023 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

3.2
Terms related to planning
3.3
Terms related to support and operation
3.4
Terms related to performance evaluation and improvement
4.4
Environmental management system
5.2
Environmental policy
6.2
Environmental objectives and planning to achieve them
6.2.1
Environmental objectives
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
9.1
Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation
9.3
Management review
Show the 21 you already have
10.3
Continual improvement
4.1
Understanding the organization and its context
5.1
Leadership and commitment
5.3
Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities
7.4
Communication
10.2
Nonconformity and corrective action
3.1
Terms related to organization and leadership
4.2
Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties
4.3
Determining the scope of the environmental management system
6.1
Actions to address risks and opportunities
6.1.2
Environmental aspects
6.1.3
Compliance obligations
6.1.4
Planning action
6.2.2
Planning actions to achieve environmental objectives
7.1
Resources
7.5.2
Creating and updating
8.1
Operational planning and control
8.2
Emergency preparedness and response
9.1.2
Evaluation of compliance
9.2
Internal audit
9.2.2
Internal audit programme

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO/IEC 23894:2023 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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