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Looking for information and advice on ISO 14001 for environmental advisor role I have asked to perform at my current job
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Go on a course! IEMA Certificate is a good start if you have no knowledge of environment. Also enrol later on a 14001 course - lots of them about. If you think safety is a minefield environment beats it into a cocked hat!! I have been involved in environmental issues for over 20 years - came into safety afterwards - and I never cease to be amazed how complicated it is! Depends on your industry however - if you are an office - its fairly straight forward but start to manufacture and its a whole different ball game. Really interesting though. If you are familiar with 18001 then this is not that much different - its just you need the learning behind it for environmental issues and without that its an uphill battle
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I'm currently working for an ISO and OHSAS certification body, and I would tend to agree with Blod on this one.
Personally I would worry less about the IEMA course though, unless you have absolutely no ISO management system experience at all. If you are familiar with OHSAS 18001 and to a lesser extent ISO 9000, then these should have given you a good grounding in the management system approach of Plan-Do-Check-Adjust, which really is not rocket science.
Where I would focus your learnings would be on environmental regs and guidance as this can be complex. You'd need to pick a course carefully to help you with that in any significan way.
If you are starting your certification process from scratch (I'm assuming that you already have a non-certified EMS) then I suggest you start by thinking about performance deliverables in environmental terms and build your management system around those, instead of producing a whole load of pointless documentation just to satisfy the standard.
What you should be aiming for is
1) Compliance - legislation, internal, industry norms etc
2) Risk identification and management (minimisation over time)
3) Reducing impact over time.
Build your processes and produres around delivering the support structures that deliver those three performance outcomes i.e. once you have identified environmental aspects and impacts (i.e. risks), you need to perform some kind of analysis to identify which are the most important. This should then be obviously linked to the controls you put in place and how you maintain them, how you monitor their effectiveness and also the information and training you give to people to understand what you are asking them to do and why.
The other thing to then think about is objectives, targets and plans for impact reduction. Again, I would expect them to be (and so does the standard) linked back to your identified significnat impacts/aspects so that you are then planning and managing your resources most effectively in terms of producing impact reduction. The same sort of processes should also apply around compliance management.
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