IOSH - Working with Environmental Responsibilities

Yes, this course is accredited and certified by Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). This means every training provider advertising this course on this site must be an approved centre. In most cases the awarding body will audit the centre to ensure the correct standard of teaching.

Category: Environmental · Level: Beginner

At the end of the course each delegate should be able to:

Explain the effects of environmental legislation on your business

Analyse the impact of your business on the environment

Implement and monitor measures to improve your environmental performance

Examine the disposal of waste from your site and look for ways of saving or earning money

Apply the principles of an environmental management system such as BSEN ISO 14001

This course is aimed at raising awareness of the way that your business activities could be damaging the environment, and giving you a start on the process of reducing that damage and possibly saving or earning yourself money as a result.

Environmental concerns, effects of industrial and commercial activity on the environment

Company concerns, environment policy, objectives, targets

Environmental concepts, global warming, acid rain, ozone layer depletion, bio-diversity, sustainable

development, polluter pays, integrated pollution control, integrated pollution prevention and control, BAT,
BATNEEC, BPEO

Principles of environmental law, criminal, statutory nuisance, civil, enforcement, role of EA, SEPA, LA

Air pollution, including Clean Air Act

Water pollution including Water Acts

Noise

Principles of Waste Management, including national strategy, reduction, re-use, recovery, disposal

Waste management, Duty of Care

Hazardous waste

Packaging waste

Environmental management systems, including BSEN ISO

1 - 20 multi-format questions

2 - Picture Hazard Spotting Exercises