The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), provider of accredited qualifications in health and safety, food safety, environmental protection, fire safety and first aid, has announced that it has launched a new environmental management qualification to help organisations improve sustainability.
The ‘Level 3 Award in Environmental Management’ course intends to help businesses ‘improve their environmental performance’ and achieve ISO 14001 (an environmental management standard) accreditation or equivalent.
The five-day programme covers topics such as developing environmental policy as well as reviewing and reporting environmental performance and reportedly helps demonstrate that ‘all employees understand the requirements of the standard and the actions that must be taken to reduce environmental impacts’.
Announcing the launch of the new qualification, Marianne Phillips, CIEH Head of the Awarding Organisation, said: “The CIEH Level 3 Award in Environmental Management is the only Ofqual-regulated qualification developed specifically for staff wanting to increase their knowledge and understanding of working within an environmental management system. It builds on our Level 2 Environmental Principles and Best Practice qualification providing a clear route for the development of competence.”
Drawing on CIEH’s own experiences, Phillips added: “At the CIEH, we have realised huge benefits to improving our environmental performance. It has boosted staff morale and awareness, reduced costs and our environmental impact.
“Like many organisations, the CIEH is committed to reducing the impact of climate change on society… That is why we are not only embedding environmental best practice in everything we do, but actively encouraging and helping other organisations to do the same.”
The Environmental Management qualification enables candidates to learn best practices for measuring and meeting ‘specific [environmental] performance targets’ before sitting an examination. Candidates are then awarded with a certificate once the examination has been passed.
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