ISO 14001:2015 specifies the requirements for an environmental management system that an organization can use to enhance its environmental performance. ISO 14001:2015 is intended for use by an organization seeking to manage its environmental responsibilities in a systematic manner that contributes to the environmental pillar of sustainability.
ISO 14001:2015 is applicable to any organization, regardless of size, type and nature, and applies to the environmental aspects of its activities, products and services that the organization determines it can either control or influence considering a life cycle perspective. ISO 14001:2015 does not state specific environmental performance criteria.
ISO 14001:2015 can be used in whole or in part to systematically improve environmental management. Claims of conformity to ISO 14001:2015, however, are not acceptable unless all its requirements are incorporated into an organization's environmental management system and fulfilled without exclusion.
A course for lead auditors intending to audit against the requirements of the ISO 14001:2015 in accordance with the guidance given in the ISO 19011 for first- and second-party audits as well as the requirements of the ISO 17021 for third-party audits.
- Before attending, you should have knowledge of the Quality Management principles and terminologies, PDCA Cycle (Plan, Act, Check, Act), requirements & structure of ISO 14001 standard
- Understand the requirements of ISO 14001:2015 – Environmental Management System
- Understand the elements and operations of an Environmental Management System and its principal processes
- Understand the approaches, methods and techniques used for the implementation and management of an EMS
- Interpret the ISO 14001:2015 requirements in the specific context of an organization
- Support an organization to effectively plan, implement, manage, monitor and maintain an EMS
- Plan, conduct, report, and follow-up an internal audit of part of an environmental management system based on ISO 14001:2015, and in accordance with ISO 19011
- Benefits and challenges of implementing an EMS
- Risk-Based Approach (RBA) and Process Thinking Approach
- The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model
- Auditing Culture in the Organization
- International Regulations and Resources
- A brief history of the 14000 Standards Serie
- Clause-by-Clause Analysis of ISO 19011:2018 applied to ISO 14001:2015
- Auditing Culture of the Organization
- Integrity
- Fair presentation
- Due to professional care
- Confidentiality
- Independence
- Evidence-based approach
- Internal and External Issues affecting the performance of the auditors
- Identifying the risks linked to the principles of auditing
- The area of influence of the audit team
- SWOT Analysis to achieve EMS desired outcomes
- Establishing audit programme objectives
- Determining and evaluating audit programme risks and opportunities
- Establishing the audit programme
- Roles and responsibilities of the individual(s) managing the audit programme
- Competence of individual(s) managing audit programme • Establishing the extent of the audit programme • Determining audit programme resources
- Establishing the extent of the audit programme
- Determining audit programme resources
- Defining the objectives, scope, and criteria for an individual audit
- Selecting and determining audit methods
- Selecting audit team members
- Assigning responsibility for an individual audit to the audit team leader
- Managing audit programme results
- Managing and maintaining audit programme records
- Monitoring audit programme
- Reviewing and improving audit programme
- Initiating audit
- Establishing contact with auditee
- Determining feasibility of audit
- Preparing audit activities
- Performing review of documented information
- Risk-based approach to planning
- Audit planning details
- Assigning work to audit team
- Preparing documented information for audit
- Assigning roles and responsibilities of guides and observers
- Conducting opening meeting
- Communicating during the audit
- Audit information availability and access
- Reviewing documented information while conducting an audit
- Collecting and verifying information
- Generating audit findings
- Evidence: definition, requirements, managing different types of evidence
- Interviews: roles and responsibilities, techniques and tools, recording results
- Preparation for the closing meeting
- Content of audit conclusions
- Conducting closing meeting
- Preparing audit report
- Distributing audit report
- Conducting audit follow-up
- Feedback: communicating results with a proactive approach
- Closing meeting: agenda, conditions, inputs, and outputs
- Follow-up: procedure and expected results
- Workshop: Conducting interviews
- Self-assessment
- Determining auditor competence: personal behavior, knowledge and skills, generic knowledge and skills of management system auditors, discipline and sector-specific competence of auditors, generic competence of audit team leader, knowledge and skills for auditing multiple disciplines
- Achieving auditor competence
- Achieving audit team leader competence
- Establishing auditor evaluation criteria
- Selecting appropriate auditor evaluation method
- Conducting auditor evaluation
- Maintaining and improving auditor competence
Training can take place in 4 formats:
- Self-paced
- Blended learning
- Instructor-led online (webinar)
- Instructor-led offline (classroom)
Description of training formats:
- Self-paced learning or e-Learning means you can learn in your own time and control the amount of material to consume. There is no need to complete the assignments and take the courses at the same time as other learners.
- Blended learning or "hybrid learning" means you can combine Self-paced learning or e-Learning with traditional instructor-led classroom or webinar activities. This approach requires physical presence of both teacher and student in physical or virtual (webinars) classrooms or workshops. Webinar is a seminar or presentation that takes place on the internet, allowing participants in different locations to see and hear the presenter, ask questions, and sometimes answer polls.
- Instructor-led training, or ILT, means that the learning can be delivered in a lecture or classroom format, as an interactive workshop, as a demonstration under the supervision and control of qualified trainer or instructor with the opportunity for learners to practice, or even virtually, using video-conferencing tools.
When forming groups of students, special attention is paid to important criteria - the same level of knowledge and interests among all students of the course, in order to maintain stable group dynamics during training.
Group dynamics is the development of a group in time, which is caused by the interaction of participants with each other and external influence on the group. In other words, these are the stages that the training group goes through in the process of communicating with the coach and among themselves.
The optimal group size for different types of training:
- Self-paced / E-learning: 1
- Instructor-led off-line (classroom): 6 – 12
- Instructor-led on-line (webinar): 6 – 12
- Blended learning: 6 – 12
- Workshop: 6 – 12
- On-the-job: 2 – 4
- Simulator: 1 – 2
Feedback in the form of assessments and recommendations is given to students during the course of training with the participation of an instructor and is saved in the course card and student profile.
In order to control the quality of the services provided, students can evaluate the quality and training programme. Forms of assessment of the quality of training differ for courses with the participation of an instructor and those that are held in a self-paced format.
For courses with an instructor, start and end dates are indicated. At the same time, it is important to pay attention to the deadlines for passing tests, exams and practical tasks. If the specified deadlines are missed, the student may not be allowed to complete the entire course programme.
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Registered users of a personal account can have various roles, including the role of a student, instructor or content developer. However, for all roles, except for the student role, you will need to go through an additional verification procedure to confirm your qualifications.
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- Certificate of Attendance - students who successfully completed the course but did not pass the tests and exams can apply for a certificate of attendance.
- Certificate of Completion - students who have successfully completed a course could apply for a Certificate of Completion, this type of certificate is often required for compliance training.
- Verified Certificate - it is a verified certificate that is issued when students have passed exams under the supervision of a dedicated proctor.
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During the training, you may encounter various forms of testing and knowledge testing. The most common assessment methods are:
- preliminary (base-line assessment) - to determine the current level of knowledge and adapt the personal curriculum
- intermediate - to check the progress of learning
- final - to complete training and final assessment of knowledge and skills, can be in the form of a project, testing or practical exam
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Conducting classes is based on the fact that the teacher demonstrates text, drawings, graphics, presentations on an interactive board, while the content appears in the student's electronic notebook. A specially designed digital notepad and pen are used to create and edit text and images that can be redirected to any surface via a projector.
Classes are live streamed online, automatically recorded and published on the Learning Portal, allowing you to save them for reuse anytime, anywhere, on any mobile device. This makes it possible not to miss classes and keep up with classes and keep up with the passage of new material.
Real-life training uses the principles of game organization, which allows future professionals to rehearse and hone their skills in a virtual emergency. Learning as a game provides an opportunity to establish a connection between the learning activity and real life.
The technology provides the following learning opportunities:
- Focused on the needs of the user
- Instant feedback
- Independent decision making and choice of actions
- Better assimilation and memorization of the material
- Adaptive pace of learning tailored to the individual needs of the student
- Better transfer of skills learned in a learning situation to real conditions
Basic principles of training:
- A gradual increase in the level of difficulty in the game;
- Using a simplified version of a problem situation;
- Action in a variable gaming environment;
- The right choice is made through experimentation.
The main advantages of Game Based Learning technology:
- Low degree of physical risk and liability
- Motivation to learn while receiving positive emotions from the process;
- Practice - mirroring the real situation
- Timely feedback
- Choice of different playing roles
- Learning in collaboration
- Developing your own behavior strategy
Conducting practical classes online using remote access technologies for presentations, multimedia solutions and virtual reality:
- Laboratory workshops that simulate the operation of expensive bench equipment in real production
- Virtual experiment, which is visually indistinguishable from a remote real experiment performed
- Virtual instruments, which are an exact copy of real instruments
- Mathematical modeling to clarify the physical characteristics, chemical content of the investigated object or phenomenon.