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Environmental Management Best Practice + ISO 14001 – International Environment Management Standard Overview

Who should attend: 

All those who have the responsibility for developing or implementing environmental management and procedures in their respective positions including:

  • Environment, Health & Safety, and Quality Management staff and practitioners
  • Senior Managers, Managers, Team Leaders, Supervisors, Operations, Project and Non-Environmental staff who are involved in developing or implementing environmental management and procedures in their respective positions.
  • Consultants, Legal Professionals, Advisers, Contractors and Subcontractors
    Government and Regulatory Bodies Officials and policy makers
4 days
Course aims: 

The programme is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the principles, concepts, terms and techniques of environmental management.

It will give participants an in-depth knowledge of ISO 14001 - the environment management system (EMS) international standard, plus the practical skills needed to plan and develop their organisation’s EMS to international standard and best practices.

The programme will also provide participants with step-by-step guide on how to identify and analyse environment aspects of their organisations’ operational activities and the related requirements as well as reducing the risk from environmental incidents occurring.

Course outline: 
  • Introduction to environmental management
  • Benefits of environmental management
  • ISO 14001 – the international standard for EMS
  • Concepts of the ISO 14001:2004 EMS
  • Roles of ISO 14001 and other management systems standards: ISO:9000 and OHSAS 18001
  • Key elements of environmental management systems
  • Recent thinking and developments in environment management
  • Environmental aspects and impacts
  • Environmental risk assessment & management
  • Social and stakeholders assessment & management
  • Planning, documenting and implementing the system
  • Structure and responsibility
  • Training, awareness and competence
  • Communication
  • Developing sustainable environmental management culture throughout the organisation
  • Write up work instructions, policy statements and procedures
  • Leadership and commitment
  • Policy, strategy, objectives and targets
  • Organization and resources
  • Operational control
  • Emergency preparedness and response
  • Implementation and monitoring
  • Audit and review
  • Checking and corrective action
  • Monitoring and measurement
  • Corrective and preventative action
  • Continuous improvement cycle
  • Action Plan to progress organisational EMS project to its successful fulfilment.