ISO 14001:2015 Strategic approach to risk-based thinking

Level Specialist Duration 2 days

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Organizations are under constant pressure to improve their environmental performance, in particular, in response to scarcity of natural resources and the higher societal expectations for accountability. Therefore environmental management has become crucial to overall business management.

The global trend towards a low carbon and resource efficient economy poses various risks and opportunities affecting your organization’s business strategy. But that’s where an environmental management system (EMS) can help.

For a well-designed EMS, your organization has to address risks and opportunities. These may arise from your significant aspects, compliance obligations or from other issues relating to your organization’s context. So whilst you can base your EMS on the best practice ISO 14001 standard, it needs to be relevant to your risks and opportunities. Therefore understanding risk-based thinking is crucial to ensure that your required actions can be integrated into your organization’s processes to enable an effective EMS.

This two-day course will help you understand risk-based thinking. It uses practical activities to translate this concept into a structured methodology that will help you to address the strategic development of the EMS in your organization.

How will I benefit?

You’ll be able to:

understand of the importance of the context of the organization
address risk-based thinking
incorporate risk-based thinking into your organization’s EMS
use a practical approach to develop an EMS in a structured way

You’ll learn the knowledge and skills to:
- understand the context of your organization in planning and implementation of the environmental management system (EMS)
- understand the application of risk-based thinking in the context of ISO 14001:2015
- understand the opf structured method in developing an effective EMS relevant to the context
- understand how to integrate actions that address the risks and opportunities into your EMS processes or other relevant business processes
This course is designed for managers, executives and environmental professionals who need a practical understanding of the context of the organization and risk-based thinking.

It is particularly relevant to anyone involved in developing, auditing or maintaining the environmental management system.
- This course is eligible for 14 SDU points
- Delegate workbook
- Lunch and refreshment
- On completion, you'll be awarded an internationally recognized BSI Training Academy certificate

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