This course is an awareness course that could be appropriate for anyone in the workplace who wants to know more about how to help reduce their businesses environmental impact.
The course aims to increase your awareness of major environmental issues and provide an introduction to environmental management systems. It will start by defining important terms and identifying the key environmental issues the world is facing.
You’ll learn about environmental impacts, and the course will look at the issue of global climate change, including greenhouse gases, carbon, acid rain and loss of biodiversity.
There’s also information on the main environmental laws, and we’ll cover Environmental Management systems and their business benefits.
Other topics include product life-cycles, corporate and personal social responsibility, renewable and non-renewable energy and the three pillars of sustainability.
The course will also discuss how waste can be managed and reduced by consumer decisions and Waste to Energy schemes. You’ll be taken through the waste management hierarchy, which describes prioritised actions commercial waste producers can take to manage waste. Finally, we’ll cover water resource management and oil storage. You’ll learn how to plan for emergency hazardous substance spillages and the correct way to complete a spillage report.
“The course was resourced and delivered to a high standard.
The teaching was very interactive and the learners were obviously feeling comfortable with the teaching style and the pace and content of the learning.
Louise demonstrated a superb level of knowledge of the subject and delivered the learning well using an obviously vast knowledge of the industry and practices used within it and the skills to deliver the information well.
The presenter developed an excellent and effective rapport with the learners and her vast experience and knowledge of the subject area had a massively positive effect on their learning.”