NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate

The NEBOSH Environmental Management Cretificate is aimed at Managers, Supervisors, and employees who have responsibility for managing environmental issues as part of their work, and focuses on assessing environmental management systems. The content includes UK, EU, and international references, and is designed to benefit companies in all industry sectors who are seeking to implement effective environmental management systems.

Providing a broad understanding of environmental issues affecting workplaces, such as energy efficiency, contamination of water sources, and controlling pollution, successful candidates will be able to display a sound understanding of the principles of managing environmental risk, and will gain the practical skills needed to enable them to manage them effectively.

NEBOSH is the UK’s leading Health & Safety and Environmental qualification awarding body, and it is gaining increasing international status. NEBOSH qualifications are recognised and respected by employers in all sectors, and provide the benchmark standard against which others are compared.

COURSE CONTENT

Unit EMC1: Environmental Management

• Foundations in environmental management

• Environmental management systems

• Assessing environmental aspects and impacts

• Planning for and dealing with environmental emergencies

• Control of emissions to air
  

• Control of environmental noise
  

• Control of contamination of water sources
  

• Control of waste and land use
  

• Sources and use of energy and energy efficiency

EMC2: Practical Application Assessing environmental aspects and associated impacts

CERTIFICATION & ASSESSMENT

• Unit EMC1 is assessed by a scenario based assessment completed at home. You have 24 hours to complete this.
• Unit EMC2 is assessed by a three-hour practical assessment carried out in your workplace (or another suitable workplace).

The NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management is accepted by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) as meeting the requirements for Technician Membership (TechCIWEM).