Environmental Aspects and Impacts
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Environmental Aspects and Impacts
The Environmental Aspects and Impacts course is intended to help you guide your organisation towards a strategy that will improve its overall environmental performance and comply with recent environmental legislation.
This course takes you through the first steps in introducing an environmental management system into your organisation. In order to accomplish this, you will explore in detail both local and global environmental issues, and how your company can reduce its contribution to these problems.
You will learn to identify those activities, products and services that can have an impact on the environment, evaluate the significance of those impacts, conduct an environmental review and to write a report of your findings.
Modules
Global Environmental Issues
1.1 What is the environment?
1.2 What is pollution?
1.3 Global warming
1.4 Ozone layer depletion
1.5 Air pollution
1.6 Loss of biodiversity and depletion of resources
Local Environmental Issues
2.1 Water
2.2 Waste
2.3 Local air pollution
2.4 Transport
2.5 Packaging
Energy Issues
3.1 Meeting the need for energy
3.2 Government policies to improve energy efficiency
3.3 Conducting an energy survey
3.4 Implementing energy-saving measures
Interested Parties
4.1 Who are your organisation's interested parties?
4.2 Communicating with interested parties
Conducting an Initial Environmental Review
5.1 What is an initial environmental review?
5.2 Review of background information
5.3 Site investigation
5.4 Register of aspects and impacts
5.5 Writing the report
For a more detailed syllabus on this course, click here
Entry Requirements
There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.
All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.
*You will have access to the course for 24 months.
Assessment Method
After each lesson there will be a question paper, which needs to be completed and submitted to your personal tutor for marking. This method of continual assessment ensures that your personal tutor can consistently monitor your progress and provide you with assistance throughout the duration of the course.
On successful completion of your course you will receive the learndirect Certificate of Completion of Training in Environmental Aspects and Impacts.
Your course certificate will also state the number of CPD points/hours the course is eligible for.
View a sample of the certificate (opens in new window)
learndirect is one of the largest integrated providers of courses and qualifications, training, and employment services in the UK
- Each year around 6,000 businesses equip their staff for success with learndirect
- learndirect have helped more than 75,000 businesses equip their employees with the skills needed to improve productivity.
- Almost 700,000 maths and English test passes have been achieved with learndirect.
- 300,000 people fulfilled their career ambitions last year with learndirect.
- Over 250,000 apprentices have achieved with learndirect.
Environmental Aspects and Impacts
The Environmental Aspects and Impacts course is intended to help you guide your organisation towards a strategy that will improve its overall environmental performance and comply with recent environmental legislation.
This course takes you through the first steps in introducing an environmental management system into your organisation. In order to accomplish this, you will explore in detail both local and global environmental issues, and how your company can reduce its contribution to these problems.
You will learn to identify those activities, products and services that can have an impact on the environment, evaluate the significance of those impacts, conduct an environmental review and to write a report of your findings.
Modules
Global Environmental Issues
1.1 What is the environment?
1.2 What is pollution?
1.3 Global warming
1.4 Ozone layer depletion
1.5 Air pollution
1.6 Loss of biodiversity and depletion of resources
Local Environmental Issues
2.1 Water
2.2 Waste
2.3 Local air pollution
2.4 Transport
2.5 Packaging
Energy Issues
3.1 Meeting the need for energy
3.2 Government policies to improve energy efficiency
3.3 Conducting an energy survey
3.4 Implementing energy-saving measures
Interested Parties
4.1 Who are your organisation's interested parties?
4.2 Communicating with interested parties
Conducting an Initial Environmental Review
5.1 What is an initial environmental review?
5.2 Review of background information
5.3 Site investigation
5.4 Register of aspects and impacts
5.5 Writing the report
For a more detailed syllabus on this course, click here
Entry Requirements
There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.
All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.
*You will have access to the course for 24 months.
Assessment
Assessment Method
After each lesson there will be a question paper, which needs to be completed and submitted to your personal tutor for marking. This method of continual assessment ensures that your personal tutor can consistently monitor your progress and provide you with assistance throughout the duration of the course.
Qualifications
On successful completion of your course you will receive the learndirect Certificate of Completion of Training in Environmental Aspects and Impacts.
Your course certificate will also state the number of CPD points/hours the course is eligible for.
View a sample of the certificate (opens in new window)
learndirect is one of the largest integrated providers of courses and qualifications, training, and employment services in the UK
- Each year around 6,000 businesses equip their staff for success with learndirect
- learndirect have helped more than 75,000 businesses equip their employees with the skills needed to improve productivity.
- Almost 700,000 maths and English test passes have been achieved with learndirect.
- 300,000 people fulfilled their career ambitions last year with learndirect.
- Over 250,000 apprentices have achieved with learndirect.
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