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I am looking at gaining an environmental qualification to sit alongside my years of experience and my qualifications in H&S i.e. British Safety Council Diploma Level 6 and others.
I have been in contact with a University that will accept me onto a distance learning MSc in Environmental Management and Assessment although in reality this is two years of study. I have also considered the NEBOSH Diploma but exam dates are an issue.
As with both the Diploma and MSc, I am working out of the UK so leave for exams cannot be guaranteed and commiting to two years of study may prove a hard task in my working environment.
I am led to believe that IEMA Associate Certificate in Environmental Management is available all online but I am not sure of where it sits, status wise. Has anybody completed this course or does anybody know a little more about it?
Should I do the AIEMA course or grin and bear the MSc of which is a higher level qualification but will this make much difference to future employers?
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
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Hi TSC,
AIEMA will give you as good a grounding in Environmental Management/Awareness as NEBOSH Gen. Non-H&S or E people wont necessarily know what AIEMA is either but everyone knows what an MSc & the level of attainment regardless of what it's in. I'm CMIOSH but my employer doesn't fully understand what it takes to get to this level. They do know however what a BSc is; we know however that both require the same level of commitment to achieve.
Bath Uni run a distance learning AIEMA & MSc. As an alternative if you already have a good level of Environmental Management/Awareness you could sit the AIEMA Open Assessment. IOSH also run an Environmental Awareness course at the same level as IOSH Managing Safely. I have this qual and am looking into sitting the IEMA Open Assessment to gain AIEMA. My understanding is that an MSc would enable attainment of the post nominal CEnv.
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I hope it is, I'm taking it as the second part of an integrated environmental diploma in October, followed by the final part of the NEBOSH environmental diploma in November.
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I am not saying the course is not worth anything as I am sure it is a valuable course, just looking at views for peoples opinion of where it sits in the grand old scheme of things i.e. as a CMIOSH, HSE Manager would employers accept it as sufficient for the environmental side along with my experience in that field or would the view be to go for a MSc or Environmental Diploma, something with that extra bit of higher end information.
Thanks for the responses so far
Karel
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I am now SHESQ / HSEQ or whatever you want to call it, but I started in Evironment and moved accross to Safety. I have an environemntal degree and a Masters and am a Chartered Environmentalist.
When employing SHE people I require AIEMA as a pre-requisite.
It shows that they are serious about the Environmental side and do not simply think anyone can pick it up without any training. It also shows a commitment to the environmental side of the professional qualifications.
I would recommend Envirotrain, who run the IEMA Associate Certificate course via e-learning (I know people who have completed this course through them). I personally like e-learning becuase you can fit it in around other commitments. I know that Envirotrain do not have a time limit to complete the course and I believe that there are no charges for re-sits.
Once you have done the Associate course you could then consider moving up to the IEMA Diploma if you wanted to. I wouldn't advise attempting the Diploma without doing the Associate course first.
Hope this helps.
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Yorkshire thanks for your comments.
I have started the course and must admit I am surpirsed at the challenge it has given me so far and the information contained within. I am enjoying it that has to be said and pleased I made the decision to go on to this before anything higher to get that base of knowledge underneath me and to in addition it willa ssit the diploma route.
I do fancy the IEMA Diploma route as well.
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Course now completed and it was enjoyable which is always a good thing :)
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