Environmental Aspects and Impacts
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Environmental Aspects and Impacts Course The Environmental Aspects and Impacts course is intended to help you guide your organisation towards a strategy that will improve its overall environmental performance and comply with recent environmental legislation. This course takes you through the first steps in introducing an environmental management system into your organisation. In order to accomplish this, you will explore in detail both local and global environmental issues, and how your company can reduce its contribution to these problems. You will learn to identify those activities, products and services that can have an impact on the environment, evaluate the significance of those impacts, conduct an environmental review and to write a report of your findings.
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- Global
- IT
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Syllabus
Global Environmental Issues
1.1 What is the environment?
1.2 What is pollution?
1.3 Global warming
1.4 Ozone layer depletion
1.5 Air pollution
1.6 Loss of biodiversity and depletion of resources
Local Environmental Issues
2.1 Water
2.2 Waste
2.3 Local air pollution
2.4 Transport
2.5 Packaging
Energy Issues
3.1 Meeting the need for energy
3.2 Government policies to improve energy efficiency
3.3 Conducting an energy survey
3.4 Implementing energy-saving measures
Interested Parties
4.1 Who are your organisation's interested parties?
4.2 Communicating with interested parties
Conducting an Initial Environmental Review
5.1 What is an initial environmental review?
5.2 Review of background information
5.3 Site investigation
5.4 Register of aspects and impacts
5.5 Writing the report
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Study HoursThis is only an approximate figure and is dependant upon how much time you can dedicate to your studies and how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material. Furthermore, at the end of each lesson there is a question paper that needs to be completed and returned to your tutor. You should allow at least 1 - 2 hours of study to complete each question paper.
The approximate amount of time required to complete the course is: 110 hrs.
Environmental Aspects and Impacts