What is the NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate?
The brand new NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate brings your environmental controls to the forefront, giving them both urgency and priority.
It was developed by leading health and safety professionals and environmental experts, who developed extensive research to create relevant and transferrable course content.
The NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate course content is globally relevant and environmentally proactive. It supports every workplace and worker to be environmentally observant, and work with ethical, fiscal and legal awareness.
According to NEBOSH research, two-thirds of health and safety practitioners now have environmental management as part of their overall day-to-day responsibilities at work.
Possessing the skills delivered in the NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate (EMC) will give you life-long environmental assessment and management qualities, and will help businesses to meet the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems standard.
Who is the NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate for?
The NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate is for managers, supervisors, and employees. It's a qualification for people who want:
- A meaningful understanding of what environmental management is
- Greater environmental and social responsibilities at work
- An Environment Management System and process fit for a sustainable world, that improves reputation, grows profits and makes a positive ethical impact
- A sharp focus on controlling the risk, hazards and harm with environmental controls
If you're striving for sustainability, taking responsibility for your use of raw materials, transport and energy, by reducing your organisation's waste and emissions, the NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate will give you a blueprint to act with environmental integrity.
What's in the NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate syllabus?
The NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate has two units and key focuses, environmental management and assessing environmental aspects and associated impacts
Within the units are nine chapters to work through, that give you a rigorous understanding of environmental management and assessment.
1) Foundations in environmental management
2) Environmental management systems
3) Assessing environmental aspects and impacts
4) Planning for and dealing with environmental emergencies
5) Control of emissions to air
6) Control of environmental noise
7) Control of contamination of water sources
8) Control of waste and land use
9) Sources and use of energy and energy efficiency
What are the benefits of the NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate?
- Understand a range of environmental issues so that you can improve environmental performance and reduce harm
- Work within an environmental management system and contribute to continual improvement
- Recognise environmental aspects and associated impacts, and evaluate the effectiveness of existing controls
- Support decision-making with ethical, legal and financial arguments
- Understand the links between your organisation’s activities and wider environmental issues
What outcomes can you expect from the NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate?
On completion of the course, you will return to work with the ability to:
- Justify environmental management in the workplace
- Recognise which workplace activities may be subject to environmental legislation or enforcement
- Assess environmental aspects and impacts, and evaluate existing controls
- Support environmental emergency planning
- Understand the importance of reducing environmental harm
- Outline the issues associated with waste and its management
- Explain the pros and cons of various energy sources and how to use them more efficiently
