Environmental Awareness CD Rom

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The Environmental Awareness CD Rom can provide individuals with the understanding of the principles of environmental control, encouraging and allowing an exploration of the inter-relationships of the environment within all industry types.

Environmental Awareness – Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit trainees should be able to:

• Understand environmental concepts
• Be aware of the terminology of environmental
• Aware of the disciplines, systems and techniques associated environmental management
• Have an appreciation of stakeholder (customers, clients, markets, etc.) needs
• Apply environmental management methods to all activities in the business or organisation
• Understand the implementation, be able to review, evaluate and maintenance an Environmental Management System based on ISO 14001

Contents

Chapter 1 - The Environment

• What do we mean by the Environment?
• Environment Factors
• Environmental Aspect
• Environmental Impact
• The Significance of Aspects
• Why Environmental Awareness
• Environmental Damage
• Common ‘buzz’ words
• Atmospheric Pollution
• The Greenhouse Effect
• The Kyoto Protocol
• Acid Rain
• Land Pollution
• Water pollution
• Sustainable Development
• Types of sustainability
• Ethical
• Legal
• Marketing
• Economic

Chapter 2 - Environmental Management System (EMS)

• Brief history of environmental standards
• Environmental Management System EMS
• Drivers for implementing an EMS

Chapter 3 - ISO14001:2004

• Definitions within the standard
• ISO 14001:2004 - construction
• 4.1 General Requirements
• 4.2 Environmental Policy
• 4.3 Planning
• 4.3.1 Environmental Aspects
• 4.3.2 Legal and other Requirements
• 4.3.3 Objectives, targets and programmes
• 4.4. Implementation and operation
• 4.4.1 Resources, roles, responsibilities and authority
• 4.4.2 Competence, training and awareness
• 4.4.4 Documentation
• 4.4.5 Control of Documents
• 4.4.6 Operational Control
• 4.4.7 Emergency preparedness and response
• 4.5 Checking
• 4.5.1 Monitoring and Measuring
• 4.5.2 Evaluation of Compliance
• 4.5.3 Non-conformity, corrective action and preventive action
• 4.5.4 Control of records
• 4.5.5 Internal Audit
• 4.6 Management Review

Chapter 4 - Integrated Management System (IMS)

• Integrated Management System (IMS)
• Risk/Cost Benefits of EMS

Chapter 5 - Environmental Reporting

• A Typical Environmental Report
• Environmental Performance Indicators
• Environmental Implementation Programme

Chapter 6 - Starting out

• Environmental Manual
• Contents of an Environmental Manual
• Environmental Policy
• Review & Evaluation of an Environmental System
• Maintaining an Environmental Management System

The CD also contains:

• Qty 4 video clips with a duration of 32 minutes total on the related topic of the Environment
• ISO 14001:2004 in PDF format.
• Environmental Manual in PDF and Word formats.
• Environmental Checklist in HTML and Word formats.
• Qty 5 consolidation tests, 4 based on the video footage and 1 devised on questions from Chapter 1 – 6
• Adobe Acrobat Reader installation program

PC Specification requirements:
Note: This CD ROM has not been created for use on Apple Mac computers.

• Display: 800x600 pixels or greater.
• Display Resolution: Greater than 256 colours.
• Processor: 266Mhz or greater.
• System Memory:  32Mb of RAM or greater.
• Sound: Sound card and speakers rqd.
• CD ROM drive: 4 times or greater
• Windows: 98, NT, 2000, XP

AutoStart
The CD ROM has an “autorun” file to activate the training package. If your PC is not set to run CD’s automatically – use Windows Explorer to locate your CD ROM drive and then double left mouse click on the file named “cdstart.exe”

Controls
Most pages in the tutorial sections contain audio narrative - the NEXT button will be highlighted when the audio concludes so that you are aware it is time to move on to the next page.

Bookmarks: You can bookmark any of the pages in the tutorial sections and return to that page rapidly by using the Show Bookmark dialogue and select the page to which you wish to return. Those pages which have been book marked will remain so even when the PC is restarted. You have the additional option at any stage of clearing all bookmarks.

Page Pause: The page pause feature - when selected will leave the page you are currently on and will go to a separate "holding page". When you return from the pause page you will return to your original page and the sequence on that page will start from the beginning again