Course description
A practitioner-focused, hands-on course that shows you how to design, implement, and sustain an Environmental Management System (EMS) that reduces risk, improves compliance, and drives measurable environmental performance. We cover the PDCA backbone, identifying environmental aspects and impacts with a life-cycle lens, understanding compliance obligations, managing risk and opportunity, setting objectives and programs; operational controls (including contractors and change management), emergency preparedness and response; competence and communication; monitoring and measurement, internal auditing, management review; and continual improvement. Includes practical tools, templates, and Canadian/BC context for permitting, waste, spills, and reporting.
What you’ll learn
- Map processes, identify environmental aspects/impacts, and prioritize significant aspects
- Determine and track compliance obligations; link them to controls and records
- Build EMS procedures and documented information that are lean and auditable
- Set environmental objectives, targets, and metrics; create improvement programs
- Apply life-cycle thinking to procurement, design, and outsourced processes
- Establish operational controls, emergency response, and contractor requirements
- Monitor and measure performance; manage findings, corrective action, and improvement
- Prepare for internal audits and management review; integrate with 9001/45001/50001
Who should attend
- Environmental, HSE/ESG, and sustainability managers/coordinators
- Operations, maintenance, facilities, and project managers
- Quality/IMS managers integrating multiple ISO systems
- Internal auditors and implementation team members
- Executives and budget owners seeking risk reduction and compliance assurance
Recommended
- Basic environmental concepts (air, water, waste, hazardous materials)
- Familiarity with site processes/equipment and contractor activities
- Comfort with spreadsheets and simple data analysis (trend, variance)
- Prior exposure to any ISO management system or PDCA concepts
- Awareness of local country/province regulatory context and reporting
