The ISO 14001 standard is considered to be the best Environmental Management System (EMS) in the world today, and it could be the key to your future success.
Our Green Skills program can help you achieve the environmental results you are looking for, without the fuss.
Our program is based on IS0 14001 and offers you a simplified pathway designed to help you create financial and competitive benefits for your business, while lessening your environmental footprint - all without the huge amounts of paper work.
Interested in training up? Here are some training suggestions.
General Environmental Awareness Training
This program will teach your employees the fundamentals of an Environmental Management System (EMS). They will learn what it is and how it works. This training can form part of your employee induction program.
The Standard requires all employees to be trained for general awareness, even if they do not have any direct responsibilities under the EMS Programs.
This training also gives you the opportunity to gain an optional Statement of Attainment for BSBUS201A (MCMT272A) if assessed and proven competent.
Who for? All Employees
Duration: 3 hours
Electricity and Water Efficiency
This program is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage facilities in a more energy efficient and conscious way with a focus on electricity, water and waste.
By the end of the training you can undertake an accurate assessment of energy usage and specific ways you can achieve energy and dollar savings.
Who for? Workplace Supervisors and Facilities Operators
Duration: 2 days and 1 day practical presentation
Environmental Auditing based on the ISO 14000 Series
This training is targeted at your OHS&E and/or Environmental Officers and Workplace Supervisors. It is designed to help you take the necessary first step in ascertaining where you are at and where you need to go.
You will learn how to carry out qualitative and quantitative environmental assessment and create a resultant chart that will identify priorities and create programs to overcome the identified risks. This can assist in allocating resources over time to improve the environmental performance in a targeted controlled manner.
This training also gives you the opportunity to gain an optional Statement of Attainment for BSBUS201A, 301A and 501A (MCMT272A, 472A and 672A) depending on the level of involvement.
Who for? OHS&E, Environmental Officers and/or Workplace Supervisors
Duration: 3 days
Environmental Management System (EMS) Implementation ISO 14001
This program is designed for environmental officers or management that will be directly in the implementation and monitoring of the EMS. It is carried out on a mentoring basis.
Most of the documentation required by the Standard will be created during the mentoring process and can be used if full accreditation is required in future.
This training also gives you the opportunity to gain an optional Statement of Attainment for BSBUS301A and 501A (MCMT472A and 672A) depending on the level of involvement
Who for? OHS &E, Environmental Officers or Managers
Duration: 5 days plus 2 days follow up
Carbon Accounting – The essentials
This program gives you the tools to identify and qualify your carbon footprint. It is a great way to identify areas you can improve on, and can become part of any required government auditing and reporting.
During this program you will learn:
- the scientific and industrial background to carbon accounting
- about international best practices, methodologies and standards
- to identify, catagorise and calculate greenhouse gas (GHGH) emissions
- to prepare and interpret a carbon/GHG inventory
Who for? Managers, Workplace Supervisors, Facilities Operators
Duration: 1 day
Nationally Recognised Training Qualifications
Agriculture (Organic)
This program is perfect if you are interested in developing skills and knowledge for sustainable agriculture.
In this program, you will develop skills and knowledge in:
- supervising and managing organic production programs
- producing marketable goods to meet customer specifications
- applying quality assurance practices to industry standards
- maintaining the sustainability of the enterprise according to National Organic Standards.
Duration: Flexible
Location: Goulburn Campus, Bega Campus, Cooma Campus, Moss Vale Campus, Flexible (offered across Australia)
Asset Maintenance (Waste Management)
In this program you will learn about the operational principles of relevant equipment, how to monitor and rehabilitate a waste site and how to monitor, review, evaluate, document and audit waste assessment data.
Duration: Flexible
Location: Flexible (offered across Australia)
Conservation and Land Management
This course will help you to develop competencies in:
- natural area restoration
- weed management
- vertebrate pest management
- conservation earthworks
- lands, parks and wildlife
- community coordination and facilitation
- indigenous land management.
Duration: Flexible
Location: Goulburn Campus, Yallah Campus
Environmental Monitoring and Technology
As part of this program you will acquire scientific technical skills used in waste management, pollutions monitoring and control and other environmental applications
Duration Flexible
Location Flexible (offered across Australia)
Farm Planning for Sustainability
As part of this program you will learn the process of developing a whole farm plan for a rural enterprise. You will also enhance your skills in sustainable land management practices, property planning processes and approaches, land capability, conservation management strategies, legal requirements, SWOT analysis and risk management.
Duration 6 weekend workshops 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location Goulburn Campus
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