
Course Overview
Explore how the international organization ISO publishes standards, and how an environmental management system based on ISO 14001:2015 helps organizations manage the environment and meet objectives.
Identify and address internal and external interested parties to drive ISO 14001:2015 environmental management, reduce CO2 and resource use, and support continual improvement through audits and process controls.
Learn how ISO 14001:2015 defines an environmental management system and its requirements—from context and interested parties to leadership, planning, operation, performance evaluation, internal audit, and continual improvement.
Plan and execute a step-by-step internal audit for ISO standards, from yearly planning to evidence-based evaluation. Prepare checklists, conduct audits, and issue corrective actions and reports.
Explore the internal audit process for ISO 14001:2015, from planning and opening meetings to evidence gathering via interviews, observations, and document reviews, guiding findings and corrective actions.
Master the ISO 14001:2015 certification process: prepare with a gap analysis, perform an internal audit, engage a certification body for stage one and two audits, and sustain your management system.
This course is a complete guideline on how to read the ISO 14001:2015 standard and understand its requirement and how to implement it then how to create an audit checklist and the audit process from the audit plan to the NC report.
This course will take you through the process of auditing by real examples and practical way.
The instructor will show how each document will be create and show how to use it.
At the end of the course, you will be able to create your own checklist and audit documents to start your auditing and implementing the ISO 14001:2015 standard requirement. Also, you will be able to audit the organization safety process and procedure against the ISO 14001:2015 requirements and improve the system.
By the end of this course you are expected to be able to get the:
Knowledge
Explain the purpose of an environmental management system and the business and societal benefits of improving environmental performance
Explain the role of an auditor to plan, conduct, report and follow up an environmental management system audit in accordance with ISO 19011.
Skills
Plan, conduct, report and follow up an audit of an environmental management system to establish conformity (or otherwise) with ISO 14001 and in accordance with ISO 19011 (and ISO 17021-1 where appropriate).
ISO 14001:2015 specifies the requirements for an environmental management system that an organization can use to enhance its environmental performance.