ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems (EMS)

Level: Skill | Type: Classroom | Discipline: Environment

Course Summary

  • The purpose of ISO 14001:2015 is to provide organizations with a framework for responding to evolving environmental and socio-economic needs. It details the processes that enable an organization to achieve its Environmental Management objectives.
  • In this course, delegates will go step-by-step through the ISO 14001:2015 standard to be able to identify, control, and monitor the environmental aspects of their organization and ensure its sustainable development.
Course Objective
Delegates will be able to know
  • Importance, benefits, and challenges of an ISO 14001:2015 EMS
  • The framework of ISO 14001:2015 
  • Main concepts: process approach, Plan-Do-Check-Act, lifecycle perspective, aspects and impacts
  • A typical framework for implementing ISO 14001:2015 following the PDCA cycle
  • The key concepts and requirements of ISO 14001:2015 from an implementation perspective
  • Specific documented information requirements of ISO 14001:2015
  • Implementing  key concepts of ISO 14001:2015
  • Conducting a baseline review of an organization’s current position with regard to regard to ISO 14001:2015
Activities
  • Classroom with Theoretical and Practical exercises
The following points shall be discussed in the course:
  • How an Environmental Management System (EMS) is understood as a set of processes and practices enables an organization to reduce its environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency.
  • The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle for process improvement as the basic framework for ISO 14001:2015
  • ISO 14001:2015 framework, terms and definitions, processes and resources.
  • Principles of Internal Auditing
  • Gap Analysis: Fundamentals, principles, and application criteria 
  • Leadership, Commitment, and Accountability
  • Competences required by the EMS


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  • Fundamentals of Environmental Management System (EMS).
  • Risk-Based Approach (RBA) and Process Thinking Approach. 
  • The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle and Annex SL. 
  • Normalization of Deviance.
  • Environmental Culture in the Organization.
  • International Regulations and Resources (EPA, BSEE, API).
  • A brief history of ISO 14001:2015.
  • Principles of Internal Auditing.
  • Visibility of Leadership, Commitment, and Accountability, the omnipresent success factor in the EMS.
  • The competence development path of the staff responsible for the EMS.
  • ISO 14001:2015 Gap Analysis/Self-assessment.

  • Anyone involved in the planning, implementing, maintaining, supervising, or auditing of an ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems.
  • Nominated candidates who are responsible for the management & implementation of ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems.

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