Environmental Awareness Training
Under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Environment Act 1995, anyone who produces, handles or disposes of waste must do it safely. Businesses that don’t can face fines or prison. This CPD Accredited Environmental Awareness Training covers your legal duties and the climate and human impact behind them, plus practical ways to cut waste and energy use.
There has been a 146% increase in plastic found on British beaches since 1994.
- Business Compliance
- 40 languages
- 25m
Learning outcomes
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Identify ways you can reduce your impact on the environment as an individual
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Review the environmental impact of workplaces and their operations
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Recognise the effects of climate change, human impact, and strategies for achieving a sustainable balance
Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 3 sections
- 1Global change
- 2How workplaces are affecting the environment
- 3How individuals can improve their carbon footprint
Section 1
In this section, we look at the problems facing the environment, including climate change and human impact. This important recap makes sure everyone starts from the same place.
Section 2
This section is focused on the workplace. We look at how your organisation can get along better with the environment while saving money and meeting its legal obligations. Four aims guide it: use renewable resources where possible, stay within reasonable limits, avoid unnecessary waste, and give the environment time to recover.
Section 3
In the final section, we focus on individuals and the practical changes you can make at work and at home. Cutting waste and energy use shrinks your carbon footprint and trims your fuel, energy and food shop bills. Small changes make a big difference.
About this course
This online, CPD Accredited training course introduces staff and management at all levels to environmental responsibility. It explains the problems facing the environment and the legal responsibilities your organisation has, then covers practical actions to reduce your environmental impact. Course videos include subtitles.
One person’s habits can feel too small to matter. Awareness is the first step, though, and small, consistent actions lead to change. You don’t need to be an expert. Environmental responsibility concerns absolutely all of us, whatever the size or sector of your organisation.
Cutting waste and energy use lowers your organisation’s costs and strengthens its reputation. For individuals, it means lower fuel, energy and food bills, plus a smaller carbon footprint.
Help your staff make your business more environmentally friendly. Start your free trial of our Environmental Awareness Training course today!
How to make your workplace more environmentally friendly
It’s imperative that every business, large or small, does their part to reduce waste and help the environment. Check out our guide that looks at workplace tips to help employers and employees become conscious of their impact on the environment and what they can do to reduce their carbon footprint.
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The importance of Environmental Awareness Training
Environmental Awareness Training helps your organisation comply with the law, cut costs and protect its reputation. It helps your people cut their own bills too.
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Environmental Awareness certificate
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Environmental Awareness Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Environmental Awareness Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
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Why is this training important?
The Environmental Protection Act 1990 (as amended in 2008) and the Environment Act 1995 require anyone who produces, handles or disposes of waste to do it properly and safely. Businesses and households that don’t comply can be fined or even sent to prison. The Control of Pollution Act 1974 and its 1989 Amendment regulates waste transportation and disposal, plus water, air and noise pollution, with fines for non-compliance.
The UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) caps the greenhouse gases that heavy industry, power, aviation and domestic maritime operators can emit. Covered operators must hold allowances for their emissions, and they can trade them. Since Brexit, the UK has run its scheme separately from the EU’s.
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