COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of ISO 14000 IMS and Internal Auditor. It covers the integrated management system and ISO 14001:2015 standard; the organization and its context, internal and external issues, interested parties and scope of EMS; the role of top management, environmental policy requirements, organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities and leadership in risk-based thinking; the risks and opportunities, environmental aspects and impacts; and the compliance obligations and setting environmental objectives and planning actions. 

 

Further, the course will also discuss the resource management, competence and awareness; the communication and documented information and control; the operational controls, life cycle perspective in operations, outsourced processes and control; the emergency preparedness and response and monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation; the compliance evaluation, proper internal audits and management review requirements; and the nonconformity and corrective action, continual improvement strategies, root cause analysis and corrective action verification. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the environmental aspects and impact assessment; the legal and other requirements and linking ISO 14001 to IMS framework; the ISO 19011:2018 auditing guidelines and initiating the audit, planning the audit and conducting the audit; the nonconformity identification and classification, effective use of audit tools and internal audit execution; the reporting audit finding, conducting the closing meeting and following-up and verification; and the role of internal auditor in IMS, reviewing consolidated IMS audit reports and the system-wide improvements.