Illustrating the depth of the IHMM Certified Hazardous Materials Manager [CHMM] credential, the following ISO international standards are involved with the CHMM. Learn more about the CHMM here > https://ihmm.org/chmm/

ISO Standards Related to the Technical Blueprint

Domain 1 — Planning for Materials with Hazards

This domain includes chemical identification, SDS use, laboratory reports, pollution prevention, recycling, environmental impacts, permitting, risk-management planning, and SOPs.

Principal standards

  • ISO 11014:2009 — Safety data sheets for chemical products.
  • ISO 14001:2026 — Environmental management systems.
  • ISO 14004 — General guidance on implementing environmental management systems.
  • ISO 14005 — Flexible, phased implementation of an environmental management system.
  • ISO 14006 — Incorporating ecodesign.
  • ISO 14009 — Material circulation in design and development.
  • ISO 14031:2021 — Environmental performance evaluation.
  • ISO 14040:2006 — Life-cycle assessment principles and framework.
  • ISO 14044:2006 — Life-cycle assessment requirements and guidelines.
  • ISO 14046 — Water-footprint assessment.
  • ISO 14050 — Environmental-management vocabulary.
  • ISO 14051, ISO 14052 and ISO 14053 — Material-flow cost accounting.
  • ISO 14064-1, ISO 14064-2 and ISO 14064-3 — Greenhouse-gas quantification, reporting, projects, validation, and verification.
  • ISO 14067 — Carbon footprint of products.
  • ISO 14090 and ISO 14091 — Climate adaptation, risk, and vulnerability assessment.
  • ISO 59004, ISO 59010 and ISO 59020 — Circular-economy principles, business models, and circularity measurement.
  • ISO 31000:2018 — Risk-management guidelines.
  • ISO 37301:2021 — Compliance-management systems.

ISO 14001:2026 supplies the principal environmental-management framework, while the ISO 14040 family addresses life-cycle impacts and ISO 14031 addresses environmental-performance evaluation.

Domain 2 — Shipping and Transporting Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials

Principal standards

  • ISO 16106:2020 — Dangerous-goods packaging, intermediate bulk containers, and large packaging—Application of ISO 9001.
  • ISO 16495:2022 — Packaging for transport of dangerous goods—Test methods.
  • ISO 17508:2025 — Compatibility testing for certain plastic dangerous-goods packaging.
  • ISO 28000:2022 — Security and resilience—Security-management systems, including supply-chain security.
  • ISO 780 — Distribution packaging—Graphical symbols for handling and storage.
  • ISO 6346 — Freight-container coding, identification, and marking.
  • ISO 668 — Series 1 freight containers—Classification, dimensions, and ratings.
  • ISO 1496 series — Specification and testing of freight containers.
  • ISO 39001 — Road-traffic safety management systems.
  • ISO 14083:2023 — Quantification and reporting of greenhouse-gas emissions from transport-chain operations.
  • ISO 9001:2015 — Quality controls for packaging manufacture and inspection.

These ISO standards supplement, but do not establish, the legal shipping descriptions, hazard classes, placards, labels, markings, or documentation required by 49 C.F.R., the UN Model Regulations, IMDG Code, ICAO Technical Instructions, or other modal rules. ISO 16106 itself is directed toward packaging systems that must satisfy dangerous-goods regulatory requirements.

Domain 3 — Storage of Materials with Hazards

Principal standards

  • ISO 14001:2026 — Environmental controls for storage operations.
  • ISO 45001:2018 — Occupational-health-and-safety controls.
  • ISO 31000:2018 — Storage risk assessment.
  • ISO 11014:2009 — SDS information supporting compatibility and storage decisions.
  • ISO 7010:2019 — Registered safety signs.
  • ISO 3864 series — Safety colors, safety signs, and product-safety labels.
  • ISO 28000:2022 — Access control and supply-chain security.
  • ISO 22342:2023 — Guidelines for developing facility security plans.
  • ISO 22340:2024 — Protective-security architecture and framework.
  • ISO 9001:2015 — Inventory and process controls.

The ISO 7010 and ISO 3864 families are particularly relevant to facility signs, warnings, access restrictions, and container-related safety communication.

Domain 4 — Facility Operations Involving Materials with Hazards

Principal standards

  • ISO 45001:2018 — Occupational-health-and-safety management systems.
  • ISO 45002:2023 — Implementation guidance for ISO 45001.
  • ISO 45004:2024 — OH&S performance-monitoring and evaluation guidance.
  • ISO 12100:2010 — Machinery safety, hazard identification, risk assessment, and risk reduction.
  • ISO 14123-1 and ISO 14123-2 — Control of hazardous substances emitted by machinery.
  • ISO 11014:2009 — Safety data sheets.
  • ISO/IEC 17025:2017 — Competence of testing and calibration laboratories.
  • ISO/TS 16975-1 and ISO/TS 16975-2 — Respiratory-protective-device selection, use, and program guidance.
  • ISO 16975-3 — Respirator fit-testing procedures.
  • ISO 17420-1:2021 — General requirements for respiratory protective devices.
  • ISO 16602 family — Chemical-protective clothing.
  • ISO 374 family — Protective gloves against dangerous chemicals and microorganisms.
  • ISO 13688 — General requirements for protective clothing.
  • ISO 13982-1 — Protective clothing against solid particulates.
  • ISO 17491 series — Test methods for chemical-protective clothing.
  • ISO 20345 — Safety footwear.
  • ISO 11612 — Clothing protecting against heat and flame.

These standards correspond to the blueprint’s engineering controls, worker exposure, PPE, sampling, testing, and hazard-communication tasks.

Domain 5 — Disposition of Materials with Hazards

Principal standards

  • ISO 14001:2026 — Operational control and life-cycle perspective.
  • ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 — Life-cycle assessment.
  • ISO 14009 — Material circulation.
  • ISO 14051, ISO 14052 and ISO 14053 — Material-flow cost accounting.
  • ISO 59004, ISO 59010 and ISO 59020 — Circular economy.
  • ISO 18601 through ISO 18606 — Packaging and the environment, including optimization, reuse, material recycling, energy recovery, and organic recycling.
  • ISO 14046 — Water-footprint implications.
  • ISO 14064 family — Air-emission and greenhouse-gas accounting.
  • ISO 18504:2017 — Sustainable remediation.
  • ISO 5667 series — Sampling of water, wastewater, sludge, and sediment.
  • ISO 18400 series — Soil sampling and site investigation.
  • ISO 31000:2018 — Risk-based evaluation of disposition options.

Domain 6 — Recordkeeping and Reporting

Principal standards

  • ISO 15489-1:2016 — Records-management concepts and principles.
  • ISO 30301:2019 — Management systems for records.
  • ISO 14001:2026 — Environmental documented information and compliance evaluation.
  • ISO 45001:2018 — OH&S documented information and incident records.
  • ISO 14031:2021 — Environmental-performance information.
  • ISO 14033 — Quantitative environmental information.
  • ISO 14063:2020 — Internal and external environmental communication.
  • ISO 14016 — Assurance of environmental reports.
  • ISO 14064-1 — Organizational greenhouse-gas reporting.
  • ISO 37301:2021 — Compliance records and reporting.
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022 — Security and integrity of electronic records.

ISO 15489-1 and ISO 30301 provide the records-management foundation, while ISO 14063 addresses environmental communications with internal and external parties.

Domain 7 — Training Personnel

Principal standards

  • ISO 10015:2019 — Competence management and people development.
  • ISO 21001:2025 — Management systems for educational organizations.
  • ISO 29993:2017 — Learning services outside formal education.
  • ISO 29994:2021 — Distance-learning requirements.
  • ISO 45001:2018 — Worker competence, awareness, training, and participation.
  • ISO 45002:2023 — Guidance for implementing OH&S competence requirements.
  • ISO 14001:2026 — Environmental competence and awareness.
  • ISO 22320:2018 — Competence and coordination in incident management.
  • ISO 22398 — Guidelines for exercises and testing.
  • ISO/IEC 17024:2026 — Assessment of individuals against defined competencies.

These standards relate directly to identifying required competencies, designing instruction, assessing learning, conducting drills, and documenting training adequacy.

Domain 8 — Response and Recovery

Principal standards

  • ISO 22300:2025 — Security and resilience vocabulary.
  • ISO 22301:2019 — Business-continuity management systems.
  • ISO 22313:2020 — Guidance on applying ISO 22301.
  • ISO/TS 22317:2021 — Business-impact analysis.
  • ISO/TS 22318:2021 — Supply-chain continuity.
  • ISO 22320:2018 — Emergency-management incident guidelines.
  • ISO 22361:2022 — Crisis-management guidelines.
  • ISO 22398 — Exercises and testing.
  • ISO 22315 — Mass-evacuation planning.
  • ISO 22316 — Organizational resilience.
  • ISO 22319 — Planning involvement of spontaneous volunteers.
  • ISO 22342:2023 — Facility security plans.
  • ISO 31000:2018 — Incident risk assessment and treatment.
  • ISO 14001:2026 — Environmental emergency preparedness and response.
  • ISO 45001:2018 — OH&S emergency preparedness and response.

The ISO 22300 family addresses incident command, continuity, exercises, crisis management, recovery, coordination, and organizational resilience.

Domain 9 — Remediation

Principal standards

  • ISO 18504:2017 — Sustainable remediation.
  • ISO 21365:2019 — Conceptual-site-model development.
  • ISO 14015:2022 — Environmental due-diligence assessment.
  • ISO 18400 series — Soil-quality sampling, investigation, preservation, pretreatment, and field methods, particularly:
    • ISO 18400-101 — Sampling plans;
    • ISO 18400-102 — Selection and application of sampling techniques;
    • ISO 18400-104 — Sampling strategies;
    • ISO 18400-105 — Packaging, transport, storage, and preservation;
    • ISO 18400-201 — Physical pretreatment in the field;
    • ISO 18400-205 and ISO 18400-206 — Sampling for biological testing;
    • ISO 18400-301 — Investigation of volatile organic compounds.
  • ISO 11074 — Soil-quality vocabulary.
  • ISO 15175 — Soil characterization related to groundwater protection.
  • ISO 15800 — Soil characterization related to human exposure.
  • ISO 19258 — Background values in soils.
  • ISO 16558 series — Risk-based petroleum-hydrocarbon analysis.
  • ISO 17402 — Bioavailability of contaminants in soil.
  • ISO 17924 — Oral bioaccessibility of metals in soil.
  • ISO 18772 — Leaching procedures.
  • ISO 22155 — Determination of volatile organic compounds in soil.
  • ISO 7303:2025 — Simplified oral bioaccessibility testing for certain metals and metalloids.
  • ISO 5667 series — Groundwater, wastewater, surface-water, sediment, and sludge sampling.
  • ISO/IEC 17025:2017 — Laboratory competence and analytical-data quality.

ISO 18504 directly concerns sustainable remediation; ISO 21365 addresses conceptual site models; and the ISO 18400 series supplies the principal soil-investigation and sampling framework.

Domain 10 — Management Systems

Principal standards

  • ISO 14001:2026 — Environmental management systems.
  • ISO 45001:2018 — OH&S management systems.
  • ISO 9001:2015 — Quality management systems.
  • ISO 37301:2021 — Compliance-management systems.
  • ISO 31000:2018 — Risk management.
  • ISO 19011:2026 — Management-system auditing.
  • ISO 14031:2021 — Environmental-performance evaluation.
  • ISO 14007 — Determining environmental costs and benefits.
  • ISO 14008 — Monetary valuation of environmental impacts.
  • ISO 14016 — Assurance of environmental reports.
  • ISO 14033 — Quantitative environmental information.
  • ISO 14063:2020 — Environmental communication.
  • ISO 26000 — Social responsibility and stakeholder engagement.
  • ISO 50001:2018 — Energy-management systems.
  • ISO 46001 — Water-efficiency management systems.
  • ISO 59004, ISO 59010 and ISO 59020 — Circular-economy management.
  • ISO 15489-1 and ISO 30301 — Records management.
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022 — Information-security management.

The most important distinction for Blueprint Task 10.7 is between a management-system audit, addressed by ISO 19011, and a legal compliance audit conducted against statutes, regulations, permits, and enforceable orders.

Domain 11 — Environmental Studies

Principal standards

  • ISO 14015:2022 — Environmental due-diligence assessment.
  • ISO 21365:2019 — Conceptual site models.
  • ISO 18400 series — Soil investigation and sampling.
  • ISO 5667 series — Water, groundwater, wastewater, sediment, and sludge sampling.
  • ISO 16000 series — Indoor-air investigations.
  • ISO 16000-7 — Sampling strategy for determining airborne asbestos-fibre concentrations.
  • ISO 10312 — Asbestos fibres in ambient-air measurements using transmission electron microscopy.
  • ISO 22262 series — Quantitative determination of asbestos in bulk materials.
  • ISO 7303:2025 — Bioaccessibility of metals and metalloids in soil.
  • ISO/IEC 17020 — Competence of inspection bodies.
  • ISO/IEC 17025:2017 — Competence of testing and calibration laboratories.
  • ISO 17034 — Competence of reference-material producers.
  • ISO/IEC 17043 — Proficiency testing.
  • ISO 19011:2026 — Auditing principles where an environmental study includes management-system evaluation.

ISO 14015 is directly applicable to property-transfer environmental due diligence, but expressly distinguishes due diligence from intrusive investigation and remediation. The ISO 16000 family addresses indoor-air investigations, including asbestos sampling.

Domain 12 — Health and Safety

Principal standards

  • ISO 45001:2018 — OH&S management systems.
  • ISO 45002:2023 — Implementation of ISO 45001.
  • ISO 45004:2024 — OH&S performance evaluation.
  • ISO 31000:2018 — Risk-management framework.
  • ISO 12100:2010 — Hazard identification and risk reduction.
  • ISO 14123-1 and ISO 14123-2 — Hazardous substances emitted by machinery.
  • ISO 11014:2009 — Safety data sheets.
  • ISO 7010:2019 — Safety signs.
  • ISO 3864 series — Safety colors, signs, and product labels.
  • ISO/TS 16975 series and ISO 17420-1 — Respiratory protection.
  • ISO 16602, ISO 374, ISO 13688, ISO 13982-1, ISO 17491, ISO 20345 and ISO 11612 — Task-specific PPE.
  • ISO 22320:2018 — Incident management.
  • ISO 22301:2019 — Continuity and recovery.
  • ISO 14001:2026 — Environmental emergency planning where releases affect workers, the public, or environmental receptors.
II. The Most Important Standards for the CHMM Reference Framework

The following is the primary ISO set:

  1. ISO/IEC 17024:2026
  2. ISO 14001:2026
  3. ISO 45001:2018
  4. ISO 31000:2018
  5. ISO 19011:2026
  6. ISO 9001:2015
  7. ISO 37301:2021
  8. ISO 11014:2009
  9. ISO 7010 and ISO 3864
  10. ISO 16106:2020 and ISO 16495:2022
  11. ISO 22301:2019 and ISO 22320:2018
  12. ISO/IEC 17025:2017
  13. ISO 14015:2022
  14. ISO 18504:2017
  15. ISO 21365:2019
  16. ISO 18400 series
  17. ISO 5667 series
  18. ISO 15489-1:2016
  19. ISO 10015:2019
  20. ISO 14040 and ISO 14044

These standards should be treated as professional-practice references that supplement—not displace—applicable U.S. statutes, regulations, permits, consensus standards incorporated by reference, and agency guidance. The legal answers to blueprint questions involving RCRA, CAA, CWA, CERCLA, EPCRA, TSCA, OSHA, or hazardous-material transportation must continue to be derived principally from the controlling U.S. legal authorities.