This course consists of three separate e-Learning modules:
- ISO 14001:2015 - Introduction
- ISO 14001:2015 - Implementation
- ISO 14001:2015 - Internal Auditor
Course Content Introduction:
- Introduction to environmental management, background and relationship with other management system standards
- High level framework, clauses, process approach and risk-based thinking
- Process evaluation and improvement to control and reduce undesired effects from internal and external issues
- Planning for risk to ensure the management system will achieve its objectives
- Leadership commitment and responsibilities
- Support and what’s needed for the management system to operate effectively
- Performance review and monitoring to identify any actions needed for the correction and continual improvement of the management system
Course Content Implementation:
- Get buy-in and communicate the benefits
- Analyse the current business state
- Plan the implementation
- Design and document the system
- Steps to certification
Course Content Internal Auditor:
- Audit types and the principles of auditing
- Roles, responsibilities and competencies
- Planning, scheduling and preparing audit documents and activities
- Conducting the audit (verifying audit evidence against the audit schedule)
- Audit review (CAR’s and opportunities for improvement)
- Follow up and close out activities following the management review
The Objective for this course:
- Follow a systematic approach to establish processes that will improve your organisation’s environmental performance
- Incorporate the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model and risk-based thinking into the management system processes so that you can address risks and make the most of any opportunities
- Create a culture where employees are encouraged to take an active role in protecting the environment by contributing to sustainable practices that reduce the organisation’s environmental impacts and increases its operating efficiency
- Successfully plan and implement a management system based on an ISO standard
- Plan an internal audit of an environmental management system against ISO 14001:2015
- Ensure changes to processes and procedures are communicated and everyone is trained so they can support and contribute to the management system objective
- Complete an objective evaluation of your organisation’s current performance, to ensure processes are in place and operating as intended
- Plan and prepare activities in readiness for the certification audit
- Verify that the organisation is compliant with its own policies, procedures and associated documents by using the auditing principles and process
- Report on the management systems effectiveness by gathering objective evidence and evaluating the extent to which environmental management system is being managed, controlled and continually improved