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IEMA Lead Environmental Auditor

  • Gelli Aur Campus
  • Online
5 Days
No formal entry requirements

Become a lead environmental auditor with our ISO 14001 Lead Auditor Training Course and gain a qualification which will contribute towards the auditor registration of the IEMA. As lead auditor you will remain at the forefront of Environmental Management System strategy and will drive efficiency in line with ISO 14001 and you can play a pivotal role in ensuring your organisation is committed to environmental best practice.

Course details

Study modes:
  • Face-to-Face
  • Distance
Course length:
5 Days
Entry requirements:
No formal entry requirements

£1080 pp

Accredited:
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Programme Description

Our IEMA Lead Environmental Auditor course equips you with the knowledge and practical skills to lead comprehensive environmental audits, ensuring compliance with legislation and driving sustainable practices across various industries. This course is designed for professionals seeking to advance their auditing capabilities and take on leadership roles in environmental management.

By completing this course, you will gain the following key skills and knowledge:

  • Evaluate Current Environmental Issues: Understand and assess key environmental challenges and their inter-relationships, and how they impact the auditing process in various sectors.
  • Identify Environmental Aspects & Impacts: Learn the techniques for effectively identifying and evaluating environmental aspects and impacts, enabling accurate assessment of environmental performance.
  • Assess the Significance of Environmental Impacts: Understand and evaluate the significance of environmental impacts, enabling you to prioritize and manage key areas of concern.
  • Analyze Environmental Objectives & Controls: Gain the skills to assess and validate environmental objectives, targets, management systems, and monitoring regimes, tailored to different industries and organizational needs.
  • Understand Key Environmental Legislation: Identify and evaluate relevant environmental legislation and compliance requirements, understanding their role and importance in the context of environmental auditing.
  • Audit Types and Their Application: Learn about the different types of environmental audits and the relationship between them, along with their specific applications in various organizational contexts.
  • Roles and Responsibilities in Audits: Gain a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the lead auditor, audit team, and other key stakeholders in ensuring the success of the audit process.
  • Plan and Manage Audit Programs: Develop the skills to plan, initiate, manage, and monitor a wide range of audit programs, ensuring their effective implementation and review.
  • Lead and Manage Audits Effectively: Demonstrate the competencies required for leading an environmental audit, and understand the essential skills needed for managing a successful audit team.
  • By the end of this course, you will have the expertise to lead environmental audits that drive sustainable practices, ensure legal compliance, and contribute to the ongoing improvement of environmental performance across industries.

This course is aimed at environmental graduates or professionals with some knowledge of organisational environmental performance management including system standards.

All attendees must be familiar with the text of ISO 14001 (or EMAS in the EU), either by attending an IEMA Certified/Approved course or through completion of pre-course work designed to ensure this understanding.

After successful course completion learners will be considered able to undertake environmental audits with supervision.

Learners will have developed sufficient knowledge and understanding to be able to lead environmental audits after gaining sufficient experience.

After successful completion of this course learners could progress onto other Green Skills Academy courses such as:

IEMA Pathways to Net Zero;
IEMA Foundation Certificate in Environmental Management:
IEMA Certificate in Environmental Management;
IEMA Lead Environmental Auditor;
IEMA Internal Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Auditor