(Including Transition to ISO 14001:2004)

Summary:

This interactive, three-day workshop covers all elements of ISO 14001:2004, with emphasis on the changes to the 2004 version.

ISO 14001:1996 was revised in November 2004. ISO 14001:2004 includes changes that may significantly affect your organization’s EMS. All ISO 14001:1996 registered organizations must transition to the 2004 version by May 2006. This means that an organization’s internal audit plan must be updated with the new audit criteria by May 2005.

Attendees of this auditing workshop learn through examples, through hands-on experience, and through role playing. In addition, this workshop will provide the attendees with the guidelines they need to understand the implications of the changes to the 2004 version of the standard.

Attendees:

This course is useful for anyone who is interested in becoming an internal auditor for their company, who wants to thoroughly review and understand the ISO14001:2004 standard, or who wants to understand what they will be audited to by an external registrar or supplier. Manufacturing, administrative, engineering, maintenance and managerial personnel have all taken the course previously and done well with the course material.

Topics:

** Background and History of the Standards
** The all clauses of the ISO 14001:2004 standard with emphasis on the changes to the 2004 version including how to successfully transition to the 2004 version of the standard.
** Auditing techniques
** How to run an effective audit
** Post-audit work

Course Materials:

Course material includes fully annotated presentation material, to allow the attendees to focus on what is being taught rather than on taking ‘good notes’. A licensed copy of the ISO 14001:2004 standard is also provided, so that each attendee has their own copy to take notes on and mark up as appropriate.

Workshop Methodology:

In addition to ‘classroom instruction’, the course relies heavily on examples from industry that the class is asked to discuss and make determinations on. Our instructors are external (registrar) auditors who have extensive industry experience, which they draw on to provide real-life examples of both effective and ineffective auditing techniques.

Finally, attendees are given examples to judge themselves. Each attendee is walked through an audit scenario and asked to determine what element of the standard is being examined, and whether the scenario conforms to that element. Previous course attendees have stated that this exercise was the single most useful exercise in the course to help them in both understanding and implementation of the standard.

Duration:

3 Days