Leadership

• How do senior leaders communicate their commitment to continuous environmental improvement to employees and other interested parties?
• How do leaders demonstrate that commitment?

Strategic Planning

• How does your organization identify, develop and implement long-term and short-term goals and objectives for continuous environmental improvement?
• How do these goals and objectives relate to your organization's overall business objective?

Involving Other Interested Parties

• How does your organization involve interested parties (stakeholders) in the development and implementation of your continuous environmental improvement?
• How is your organization involved in other organizations' continuous environmental improvement programs?

Information and Analysis

• How does your organization select and collect information to assess the effectiveness of the EMS program and use that information to make decisions?

Employee Involvement

• How does your organization prepare and involve employees in the development and implementation of the approaches?
• How are the employees' values and well-being considered in the program?

Process Management

• How does your organization identify, analyze and manage the aspects and impacts to gain environmental excellence?

Results

• What are your organization's real and anticipated results related to your continuous environmental improvement approach?
• Consider levels and trends as they relate to impacts on the environment, interested parties and financial indicators.

 adapted from  http://p2.utep.edu/projects/2000CriteriaR_final.cfm#criteria