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Courses
Featured Courses
- Auditing
- Climate Change Levy for Directors and Managers
- Emissions Trading for Directors and Managers
- Environmental Management for Directors and Managers
- Environmental Management for Employees
- Environmental Review Level 5
- IPPC for Directors and Managers
- Reducing Energy Costs
Course Overviews
Featured Course
Cleaner Product Design for the Environment
Cleaner product design for the environment seeks to minimise environmental impacts over a product's entire lifetime, while maintaining cost and functional performance. This approach commonly minimises waste and reduces costs, with the potential for increased market competitiveness.
This course aims to introduce cleaner design, also know as 'Design for the Environment' or 'Ecodesign', for manufacturing SMEs in all sectors. It outlines the benefits, the basic process & methods and gives case studies to illustrate potential results. Concluding with a checklist, the course is a primer enabling further steps to be prioritised.
Featured Course
Cleaner Manufacturing
Cleaner manufacturing is the (re-)specification, implementation and control of production processes to minimise environmental impacts while maintaining other aspects of cost and technical performance. This approach commonly minimises waste and reduces costs with the potential for increased market competitiveness.
This course aims to introduce cleaner manufacturing, also know as Cleaner Production, particularly with SMEs in mind.
It outlines the benefits, the basic practices and gives case studies to illustrate potential results. Concluding with a checklist, the course is a primer enabling further steps to be prioritised.
Auditing
Auditing is the systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which criteria are fulfilled.
This course explains what auditing is, why it is important, how to prepare for an audit. Concluding with an exercise that requires you to carry out an example audit, the course is a primer for checking your compliance.
Climate Change Levy for Directors and Managers
The Climate Change Levy (CCL) is an additional tax on businesses added to their energy bills intended to address the environmental problems resulting from energy production and consumption, the associated pollution and increase to the average global surface temperature.
This course is aimed at increasing understanding of the new tax and ensuring that senior managers have all of the information that they need to reduce the impact of the tax. This course describes a stepwise method for planning to reduce the impact of the Levy by taking full advantage of discounts, good practice methods, Government grants and tax incentives.
Emissions Trading for Directors and Managers
The UK emissions trading scheme is the world's first economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme, which began in March 2002.
This course aims to increase your understanding of the fundamentals of and the potential for emissions trading to minimise the financial effect of the Climate Change Levy. The course covers the important principles of emissions trading, converting energy consumption and calculating emissions, and basic trading rules - including how to use the UK emissions trading system as a financial risk management tool.
Environmental Management for Directors and Managers
Environmental management is the active dealing with environmental issues at an organisational level; it concerns environmental reporting, environmental audits, development of an environmental policy, etc.
This course aims to promote a better understanding of the regulatory structure governing environmental issues in industry, allow you to examine environmental impacts and regulatory requirements at your site and provide underpinning knowledge for the implementation of an Environmental Management System (EMS). The course helps you to understand commonly used terms, the role of environmental enforcement authorities and assessing regulatory and management issues related to inputs and outputs at site.
Environmental Management for Employees
Environmental management is the active dealing with environmental issues at an organisational level; it concerns environmental reporting, environmental audits, development of an environmental policy, etc.
This course aims to increase understanding of important environmental issues applicable to your workplace and facilitate the formulation of an environmental improvement plan. The course helps you to understand air, water and land pollution issues, and concludes with the production of an environmental improvement plan for your workplace.
Environmental Review Level 5
An environmental review is a cost-efficient process that defines a site's current state and improvement potential of environmental performance, and assesses environmental compliance.
This course aims to promote a better understanding of the need for reviews, how to analyse manufacturing inputs and outputs in line with reviews and how to conduct an environmental review. This course contains numerous exercises that enable you up to conduct a full environmental review.
IPPC for Directors and Mangers
The Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) directive aims to achieve integrated prevention and control of pollution. It lays down measures designed to prevent, or where that is not practical, reduce emissions to air, land and water, including waste.
This course aims to develop; an appreciation of the way in which IPPC was designed and implemented in the UK, an understanding of the principles of IPPC, and, an understanding of the requirements of IPPC and the process of application under IPPC. It outlines the permitting process and explains the possible the consequences of associated offences.
Reducing Energy Costs
Energy costs directly affects profitability for companies. Reducing that cost achieves positive results for both industry and the environment.
This course aims to promote a better understanding of the types of energy used in the workplace, the cost of this energy use and methods of reducing energy consumption. The course provides an overview of energy usage in the workplace, assessing your building and processes, and helps you plan to reduce your energy usage.
