The seminar can be held online on the official International Business Academy platform. On completion of the training you will be given a link to the recording, which will be available for one month.
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Programme goal:
Training managers and specialists in the principles and methods of building a NON-FORMAL, risk-based environmental management system (EMS) in accordance with the international standard ISO 14001:2015, one that will genuinely help to reduce environmental risks and increase the company's resilience by covering the following areas in the training:
— Reducing environmental risks – minimising emissions, discharges and waste generation, reducing the likelihood of accidents and fines for violating environmental legislation
— Optimising the use of natural resources and energy – more efficient use of resources, cutting irrational expenses and costs
— Increasing the effectiveness of internal environmental monitoring – moving from formal control to a risk-based approach in planning and conducting internal audits of the EMS
— Compliance with the requirements of regulators and certification bodies – greater transparency, fewer nonconformities in environmental inspections and certification audits
— Supporting sustainable development and ESG goals – integrating environmental factors into management decisions and corporate strategy
— Improving the quality of planning and corporate decisions – introducing methods of analysing and managing environmental aspects based on quantitative risk assessment
Objectives:
— Examine the requirements of the ISO 14001:2015 standard
— Master methods of identifying, analysing and managing environmental aspects and risks based on ISO 31010
— Learn to apply algorithmic analysis tools (SWOT, PEST, «Porter's 5 Forces») to define the organisation's environmental context
— Develop a risk-based model of business processes taking environmental factors into account
— Study methods of quantitative assessment of environmental risks (Monte Carlo simulation, the scoring model, the Tornado diagram)
— Build a system of KPIs (by process) and environmental KRIs (key risk indicators)
— Understand how to plan and conduct a risk-based internal audit of the EMS (ISO 19011)
— Consolidate the knowledge gained in practical cases, group work (based on the company's business processes), interactive games and discussions
Skills developed:
— Strategic environmental thinking — the ability to link the company's strategy to environmental objectives, process KPIs and sustainable development requirements
— The process approach — structuring and describing business processes taking the requirements of ISO 14001 into account
— Environmental risk management — mastering methods of identifying, analysing, evaluating and treating risks related to environmental impact
— Making management decisions based on quantitative assessment of environmental risks — improving the quality of environmental planning
— Auditing skills — conducting internal audits of the EMS in accordance with ISO 19011
— Evaluating EMS performance — monitoring KPIs and KRIs, analysing nonconformities and corrective actions
— Working with interested parties: taking into account the requirements of regulators, society and consumers when building the environmental management system
Using artificial intelligence tools — mastering the skills of applying AI for analysing, planning and documenting processes; participants are given a ready-made prompt that they can use independently in their further work
Introduction
Getting acquainted / introduction / course overview / participants introduce themselves.
The history of standardisation. Introduction to ISO.
The seven management principles.
The company's context
Understanding the organisation and its context in relation to risks and the company's structure.
The «5C» method, Michael Porter's «5 Forces», SWOT analysis, PEST analysis.
Interested parties, their requirements and expectations
Understanding interested parties. The link between interested parties and context.
Compliance obligations and their link to the company's context.
Assessing the degree of fulfilment of compliance obligations.
Examples of methods for assessing fulfilment of compliance obligations.
Scope of the environmental management system (EMS)
The scope of the EMS and its link to context.
Business processes
The process approach.
The link between context and processes.
The procedure for identifying processes — best practices.
Options for describing processes.
Process criteria (KPI) and environmental aspects
Types of criteria: input KPI and output KPI.
The link between criteria and the company's strategy.
Environmental aspects: identification, assessment and treatment
Introduction to risk management
Common myths in the field of risk management and debunking them.
System 1, System 2 and the concept of «mental traps».
Risk identification
Mental traps at the risk identification stage.
Risk identification methods (from ISO 31010:2019):
— Goal decomposition and the MECE method (Mutually Exclusive & Collectively Exhaustive)
— «Brainstorming»
— A database of materialised risks
— The «RIR — Risk Identification Report» method
— Control «checklists»
— Business impact analysis (the «process approach»).
Risk analysis
Mental traps at the risk analysis stage.
Risk analysis methods (from ISO 31010:2019):
— The «5 Whys» method
— The «bow-tie» method
— The «decision trees» method
— The «Monte Carlo» simulation method, etc.
Examples of risk analysis and completing the Risk Register.
Determining the level of risk
Mental traps at the risk evaluation stage.
Different options for evaluating risk (qualitative, quantitative and their combination, from ISO 31010:2019).
Assessing and analysing the influence of risks on the decision being made
Ways of visualising the results of evaluation: Risk maps, Decision trees, the Scoring model.
Risk treatment
Mental traps at the risk treatment stage.
Six ways of treating risk.
Choosing the risk treatment method.
Examples of risk treatment.
Risk monitoring and review
Key risk indicators (KRI). The relationship between KRI and KPI.
Review of day two — discussion / questions.
Leadership
Risk-based decision-making.
The relationship between strategy, context and the EMS Policy.
Recommendations on developing the EMS Policy.
Responsibility and authority
Methods of describing actions by process (in the form of regulations / control procedures).
Designing business processes and controls.
Basic requirements / recommendations for developing control procedures, and common mistakes.
EMS objectives
The standards' requirements for objective setting.
The relationship between strategy, context, the Policy and the EMS Objectives.
Best practices in risk-based objective setting.
Resources
Determining the competence of personnel needed for the processes to function.
Determining the infrastructure needed for the processes to function.
The in-house knowledge base.
Effective communication. Documented information.
Operations
Operational planning and control.
Emergency preparedness and response.
Managing procurement (externally provided processes, products and services).
Performance evaluation
Internal audit of the EMS.
ISO 19011: The procedure for planning, conducting and analysing the results of a risk-based internal audit of the EMS.
EMS review. Best practices.
Improvement
Corrective actions. Examples and best practices.
Continual improvement.
Group game «interactive review of requirements and situations from ISO 14001»
