MISC 240 - Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
Learn about environmental technologies, sustainable development, environmental risk management, groundwater protection and integrated water resources management.
Course Description
Learn about the best environmental technologies for a sustainable development and how they are managed in various settings around the world. This course gives participants an opportunity to learn about global trends that influence our environment and the living conditions and how different management systems and approaches that are used around the world to manage the environment. This includes current environmental technologies built for the environment and technologies for sustainable soil management, groundwater protection methods and integrated water resources management.
Course Objectives
- Define risk in the context of environmental management
- Identify factors that alter people’s perception of risk
- Examine concepts such as exposure and consequence assessment and analysis models
- Discuss the important elements of effective risk communication
- Understand the particular challenges related to ecological risk assessment
- Apply risk assessment concepts to specific environmental risks
Who Should Attend?
- Health & Safety managers
- Supervisors
- Executives
- Auditors
- Anyone involved in implement an EMS, implementation and maintenance
Course Syllabus
Day 1
- Identification of environmental aspects and impacts, risk evaluation
- Defining an environmental policy
- Establishing policy and setting objectives and targets
- The principles underpinning the ISO 14001 standard
- ISO 14001 standards for commitments to pollution prevention
- Planning the Environmental Management System (EMS) implementation
Day 2
- Climate and global changes
- Climate change process
- Sustainability of humans and the environments
- Biosphere
- Biogeochemical cycle and the flow of energy in the earth system
- Biodiversity
- Soil profile and processes
- Physical resources pollutions
Day 3
- Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA)
- Risk matrix
- Tools for mitigating risks
- How to mitigate risk
- Hierarchy of controls
Day 4
- Legal requirements/legal standards
- Environmental Quality Standards (EQS)
- Monitoring & reporting
- Key performance indicators, industry performance - trends
- Environmental monitoring & surveillance
- Greenhouse gases estimation and reporting
Day 5
- Stakeholder engagement
- Stakeholder engagement: definition and business case
- Public consultation and disclosure plan (steps and techniques)
- Stakeholder mapping
- Stakeholder engagement: misguiding assumptions and key success drivers
Advance Your Environmental Management Expertise
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