ISO 14001 Foundation Course
A one-day course introducing Environmental Management Systems and their implementation.
This course provides an introduction to Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and the business benefits. The course includes a workshop on the requirements of the ISO 14001 and approaches to identifying environmental aspects and impacts.
Specific attention will be paid to the High Level Structure (HLS), the context of the organization, risks and opportunities and how to use these risks and opportunities as input for your operational control.
The training is also useful for those responsible for the conversion of the ISO 14001:2004 to ISO 14001:2015 and fulfills the prior knowledge requirement of other Environmental Management Systems training courses provided by us.
Additional benefits include:
- Access to course material augmented with exclusive insights from big data analytics based on our database of millions of audit findings worldwide
- Free access to our online self-assessment tool where you can quickly implement and practice learnings as well as to measure your company performance against specific management system standards
Objectives:
This course is designed to provide an understanding of Environmental Management Systems.
In addition to gaining an understanding of ISO 14001:2015, at the end of the course, attendees will also understand the following:
- A precise review of activities, products and services within a business
- Understand the concept of statement of intent/environmental policy
- Determine the organisation significant environmental aspects
- Create definitive links from the aspects to environmental impacts
- Establishing creative objectives and monitoring & measuring processes
- Environmental links for the procurement of products and services
- Creating consistency in control of an environment management system
- Controlling internal and external communication including sub-contractors
- Creating knowledge to compliance obligations with linkage to aspects register
- Establishing a review of the system including management aspects
Audience:
This course is aimed at the following individuals:
- Those interested in the latest version of ISO 14001 and how it works
- Anyone involved in the planning, implementing, maintaining, supervising, or auditing of an ISO 14001:2015 EMS
- Anyone with an interest in environmental management systems
- Those starting their career in environmental management
All our public courses can also be delivered in-house at your premises either as standard or tailored depending on the needs and requirements of your business.