Environmental Management Certificate

Day 1: Environmental Context

• How humans interact with the environment

• Definitions: ‘climate change’, ‘air’, ‘water and land pollution’, ‘biodiversity’ and ‘depletion of natural resources’

• The costs of environmental pollution

• The hydrological cycle and the carbon cycle

• Resource Consumption

• Waste minimization

Day 2: Environmental Legislation & Management

• Key aspects and requirements of UK legislation

• Environmental Protection Act, IPPC, PPC

• European directives and national legislation impact on commercial activities

• Common Management Systems

• Environmental Management Systems

• EMAS, ISO 14001

Day 3: Environmental aspects & Policy

• Identify how an organization’s activities can affect the environment

• Identify and describe an organization’s environmental aspects

• Evaluate the significance of environmental effects in order to prioritize an organization’s environmental activities indirect aspects that might have an influence over supplier performance

• How to write an environmental policy

• Appropriate techniques to disseminate the policy

·  Case Study

Day 4: Environmental management techniques & Training

• Practical environmental management techniques in waste minimization

• Prioritize actions needed to improve performance

• Changing work activities to improve environmental performance

• Benefits of environmental awareness and management education

• Factors to be considered in the development and content of the training program

• The necessity for feedback and evaluation

Day 5: Environmental Auditing, Reporting, and Emergency Plans

• Undertake an internal audit to an agreed specification and make recommendations

• Producing an environmental report adopting good practice features

• Types of an emergency situation that might have an impact on the environment

• How prior preparation and provision of training and resources can mitigate any effects

• Course Evaluation and Summary