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IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities

IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities

Aims
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.

Objectives
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

Programme content
Introductions
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
Examination

What happens next?
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