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Implementing and Auditing EMS ISO 14001 – Environment Management System

Who should attend: 
  • Environmental practitioners and staff responsible for developing, implementing and auditing an EMS ISO 14001 or Eco-Management
  • Health & Safety and Quality Management staff / specialists
  • Senior managers, Managers, Team Leaders, Supervisors and all other Staff who oversee environmental activities or involved in environmental management improvement and performance evaluation
4 days
Course aims: 
  Participants attending this programme will:-
  • Gain in-depth understanding of the Environment Management Systems (EMS) fundamentals, aims and objectives including how to set targets
  • Comprehend all the requirements of EMS ISO 14001 standard and registration process.
  • Learn how to develop and implement EMS ISO 14001 standard and how to create necessary policy, procedures, and work instructions
  • Create own EMS implementation plans from which may be applied in the context of participants own organisation
  • Understand the principles and practices of auditing an organisation's EMS
  • Understand how to design, prepare, carry out an effective auditing programme
  • Effectively prepare audit reports, recommendations and follow-up actions
  • Contribute to development and improvement of their organisations' management system
Course outline: 
  • Overview of environmental management and the various standards - EMS ISO 14001, eco-management and audit regulation
  • An in-depth look at EMS ISO 14001
  • The EMS ISO 14001 standard requirements
  • Planning the EMS implementation programme
  • Implementing the EMS ISO 14001: policy, objectives and target setting/ timescales/ resources/ structure and responsibility, training and communication/ top management involvement and commitment
  • Documentation and document control: manual/ procedures/ work instructions
  • Identification and assessment of environmental aspects and impacts
  • Environmental performance measures
  • Corrective action follow-up
    • Establishing time line for action
    • Evaluating corrective action plans
    • Verifying implementation of corrective actions
  • Introduction to auditing
  • The audit process
  • Planning, preparing, performing and reporting audits
  • Conducting the audit
  • Writing an audit report
  • Administering and Improving the audit programme
  • Accreditation and certification process
  • Achieving continuous improvement
  • Action plan