D6 Quality and Environmental Management
INTRODUCTION
Membership of the Chartered Quality Institute depends upon previous qualifications and experience. One of the educational requirements is the CQI D6 Quality and Environmental Management. This course is intended for personnel wishing to prepare for this examination. This package provides students with an understanding of the interactions of quality management systems and environmental management systems, and the application of these management systems in industry.
The package
The packages are stand alone private tuition packages which allow the delegate to work at their own pace through the preset training material. There is the option of one day workshops for further training guidance if required.
The distance learning material is presented in six parts which will be sent to you upon course registration. The packages include:
- Work Books & tutorial notes
- A Course Text Book - Essential of Environmental Management
- A copy of ISO EN 14001 standard
- Assignment brief
- Past exam papers
- One year's unlimited tutorial support is provided by telephone, fax, e-mail or written correspondence as required. See QM&T Team
- Monthly Quality Newsletter with all the very latest QA news. Keeping you right up to date and informed on what is happening in the Quality Assurance field.
The Contents
The aims of this package are to:
- Enhance students awareness of the disciplines, and techniques of quality and environmental management
- Enable students to understand the development of environmental management systems
- Identify the interface between ISO EN 14001, EMAS and other management systems.
- Enable students to evaluate and interpret environmental management system
- Apply techniques in an industrial environment
enable students to appraise and report on an industrial activity with regard to possible environmental effects
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
- Understand technical content and historical development of Environmental Management Systems, and the development of the standards ISO EN 14001, EMAS and ISO 9001
- Analyse and interpret the interfaces between the standards and the implications for use
- Appraise environmental techniques in an industrial environment, including waste minimisation, energy management, and pollution control
- To analyse the risks, costs and benefits to an organisation of applying environmental management systems
- To analyse the impact business processes have on emissions to atmosphere, discharges to the water systems and the effects of land contamination
- Assess if such processes could result in significant short-term or long-term harm to the environment
Covering
- The technical concepts of management systems
- ISO 9001:1994
- ISO 9001:2000
- ISO 14001:1996
- EMAS (EC 761/2001)
- The impetus for the development of environmental management
- Regulatory pressure
- Green marketing
- Consumer awareness
- Stakeholder analysis
- Environmental reporting (CEREES Format)
- Preparatory environmental review
- The principles of environmental management applied in a quality assurance function
- Documentation and control strategy
- Determination of significance of environmental effects
- Preparatory environmental review
- Environmental audit
- Emissions monitoring, (effluent and plume dispersion)
- Assignment
- An assignment and assessment of student work will be considered within the module, and will consist of one assignment, which will be set by the CQI. This is to be marked by the QM&T tutor.
ISBN: 1-904302-14-9
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