IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities

At the end of the IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities 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

The Working with Environmental Responsibilities course is aimed at raising awareness of the way that your business activities could be damaging the environment

The programme will look at 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, 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

The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health is the UK’s leading professional body

Our public courses are delivered at our own training centres located at The Court in Southam, Warwickshire and at The Mount School in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Alternatively, if you have a group of people we can deliver this course at your premises or a site of your choosing.

Please talk to one of our IOSH course specialists about your specific requirements by telephone or by email

Prices shown include IOSH fees and VAT

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Price: £165.00