Environment
Environmental Management System ISO 14001
A programme in the requirements of ISO 14001 for environmental management systems and in building the system in an organisation: identifying environmental aspects and impacts, compliance obligations, operational control and performance evaluation, followed by internal audit of the system.
Overview
About the programme
Duration
4 days
Delivery
Training hall · Virtual · At your premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
Training outcomes
- Explain the structure of ISO 14001, the requirements of its main clauses (4–10) and the concept of a life cycle perspective.
- Identify the environmental aspects of activities, products and services and their impacts, and assess their significance against documented criteria.
- Build a register of compliance obligations and evaluate compliance with them periodically.
- Set environmental objectives, operational controls and environmental emergency preparedness procedures.
- Plan and conduct an internal audit of the system and prepare inputs to management review.
Content
What the programme covers
Day 1: the standard, context and leadership
- Environmental management and the high-level structure; how ISO 14001 relates to ISO 45001 and ISO 9001.
- Clause 4: internal and external issues, including environmental conditions and climate change under the 2024 amendment, interested parties and the scope of the system.
- Clause 5: leadership, and the environmental policy and its commitments to protect the environment, prevent pollution, fulfil compliance obligations and improve continually.
Day 2: environmental aspects and compliance obligations
- Clause 6: environmental aspects and impacts in normal, abnormal and emergency conditions, the life cycle perspective, and the criteria for determining significant aspects.
- Compliance obligations: the Environmental Law, its implementing regulations, environmental permit conditions and voluntary commitments, and building their register.
- Environmental objectives and plans to achieve them; exercise: an aspects and impacts register for one of the organisation’s activities.
Day 3: support and operation
- Clause 7: competence, awareness, internal and external communication, and documented information.
- Clause 8: operational control of significant aspects, environmental requirements in procurement and contractor work, and preparedness for and response to environmental emergencies such as spills and fires.
Day 4: performance evaluation, improvement and internal audit
- Clause 9: monitoring, measurement and analysis, evaluation of compliance, internal audit and management review.
- Clause 10: nonconformity, corrective action and continual improvement.
- Internal auditing with reference to ISO 19011, an audit exercise on a case study, and the final test.
Who it is for
Target audience
Environmental managers and coordinators, management system implementation teams, internal auditors, and quality and safety staff integrating systems in industrial and service organisations.
Method
Delivery method
Lectures tied to the text of the standard, exercises in which teams build the aspects and impacts register and the compliance obligations register for a real activity, and an internal audit exercise. The organisation’s own system documents can be used where they exist. Delivered in person in the hall or at the organisation’s premises, or virtually, in Arabic or English.
Questions
FAQ
Does the programme lead to ISO 14001 certification for the organisation?
No. Certificates of conformity are issued by certification bodies after an external audit. The programme builds on the requirements of the standard and prepares the organisation’s team to build, implement and internally audit the system in preparation for that.
Can we work on our own register of environmental aspects?
Yes. If the organisation shares its aspects and impacts register and its compliance obligations register with the centre before the programme, the exercises are run on them and any improvements needed are discussed.
Is there a certificate?
Every participant who attends the programme and passes the assessment receives a certificate of completion from Technology Experts Training Center, licensed by the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation.
A programme tailored to your organisation
The duration and topics of the programme are adjusted to the organisation's needs, and it is delivered at its site, in a training hall arranged by the Center, or virtually.