By the end
What you'll build
- Identify the environmental aspects of a task or area you work in
- Explain the difference between an aspect, an impact and a significant impact
- Follow waste segregation and storage rules and explain why each stream is separated
- Recognise a situation that could become an environmental incident and report it promptly
- Describe how lifecycle thinking changes a purchasing or design decision
- Read an environmental objective and say what your team contributes to it
Curriculum
What's inside
6 modules · 35 lessons
- 01
The environmental management idea
6 lessons- Aspects and impacts: the core distinction
- Why organisations run environmental systems
- The context of the organisation in plain terms
- Interested parties: regulators, neighbours, customers
- What 'significance' means and who decides it
- + 1 more lesson
- 02
Legal and other requirements
6 lessons- How environmental obligations reach your desk
- Permits, consents and conditions in general terms
- Keeping a register of obligations current
- When a customer requirement is stricter than the law
- Evidence of compliance and who asks for it
- + 1 more lesson
- 03
Operational control
6 lessons- Waste segregation and storage done properly
- Energy and water in daily operations
- Controlling emissions to air and water
- Contractors on site and shared responsibility
- Procurement decisions with an environmental consequence
- + 1 more lesson
- 04
Emergency preparedness
6 lessons- Recognising and reporting an environmental incident
- Your role in a spill scenario: raise, do not improvise
- Containment concepts you should recognise
- After the incident: investigation and lessons
- Drills and why they are rehearsed
- + 1 more lesson
- 05
Performance and improvement
6 lessons- Reading environmental objectives and targets
- Monitoring, measurement and honest data
- Lifecycle perspective for non-specialists
- Internal audit from an interviewee's side
- Communicating environmental performance without greenwashing
- + 1 more lesson
- 06
Practice and check
5 lessons- What we do, and what changes because of itmatch pairs
- A drum leaking in the yardsequence order
- Reading the environmental vocabularyfill blank
- The patch spreading towards the gullyscenario
- Course quizquiz
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
35 lessons across 6 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
Progress you can see
Your progress is saved lesson by lesson, ready whenever you come back.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.