Current courses
Resource Futures offers a range of environmental management training courses to help your organisation stay competitive, keeping your resource costs down, ensuring that you meet your legal obligations and providing your employees with the tools to contribute to environmental improvement goals.
All courses can be tailored to your individual needs to ensure that we meet your business objectives and keep your employees interested. We offer a choice of training venues including the option of delivering courses on your own premises. Alternatively if you only have a need to train one or two people we do run open courses, see our events page for upcoming dates.
Introduction to Environmental Management (Systems & Standards)
This half day course provides delegates with an introduction to Environmental Management Systems and the different standards of good practice that businesses can achieve including ISO 14001, BS8555 and EMAS.
EMS Implementation Training (using BS8555 Approach)
This course is broken down into 6 modules corresponding with the six phases of BS8555, a new standard developed for small business. This divides the task of developing an Environmental Management System into "manageable chunks", while still working towards achieving ISO 14001 or EMAS. Delegates can choose to attend the whole course or just select the modules appropriate to the phase they want their business to reach. At the end of the course delegates will have the skills and practical experience to develop an EMS with minimal guidance.
Workforce Environmental Awareness Sessions
These sessions aim to inspire and motivate your employees to contribute to your environmental improvement goals. Sessions are tailored to the specific environmental issues and ambitions of your organisation. We have the flexibility to deliver in the sessions in a way to suit the target audience (tool box talks, management / board briefings). If you are seeking to raise awareness as part of your work towards ISO 14001 then we can ensure that these sessions fulfil the requirements of ISO 14001 clause 4.4.2 Competence, Training and Awareness.
Introduction to Environmental Law
This half day training course provides delegates with an introduction to current and forthcoming UK environmental law and its practical implications for business. Delegates will receive guidance on systems for managing and checking legal compliance within their business.
Environmental Legislation Update
Help keep your company keep abreast of relevant legislation, understand the consequences of prosecution, and how to comply in the most cost-effective way with this short course. Speakers will also explain pending legislation changes to keep you one step ahead and, additionally, there will be a chance to look at areas of potential non-compliance and implications.
Waste Minimisation for Business
Waste comes in many guises but simply put, this course will enable you to identify materials and resources which your company produces but never uses. A range of topics are covered with the aim of increasing profits and customer profile through a number of effective, practical initiatives and strategies.
Writing an Environmental Policy
An Environmental Policy outlines an organisation's mission in relation to managing the environmental effects and aspects of its operations. For organisations intending to obtain certification to the international standard ISO 14001 or registration under EMAS, having an Environmental Policy is the cornerstone of an environmental management system and this course will provide you with the necessary skills to develop one.
Internal Environmental Management System Auditor
The course provides comprehensive training in the planning, preparing, performing and external/internal reporting elements to ISO 14001 auditing. Case study materials and role-play exercises are used to develop and practice skills in all phases of auditing. An EMS can help your company become more competitive, productive and reduce the risk of prosecution. This course is the first step on developing your company into a better business.
