Summary:

This interactive, one-day workshop covers a review of all clauses of ISO 14001, including changes to the new editions where applicable.

Within this auditing refresher workshop, attendees learn through examples, through hands-on experience, role playing to emphasize how to effectively audit to this standard. The class covers auditing ruts that experienced auditors get into, and how to pull yourself out and revitalize your style.

Who Should Attend:

This course is useful for any experienced auditor who is interested in refreshing their auditing style, or who wants to review the changes to the standard. It will cover proposed changes if they are available. Previous attendees have been ‘raring to go’ after taking this course! Note: This course is NOT for inexperienced auditors, or auditors who may not be familiar with the ISO 14001 standard already

Topics:

Ruts that auditors fall into

Do you remember that the standard calls THIS out?

Viewing the same things different ways

Are you a ‘good’ audit, or a ‘bad’ audit?

Discussion on checklists - pros and cons

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’. This copyrighted material is provided as part of the course price.

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, and provide many real-life examples of both effective and ineffective auditing techniques.

Finally, attendees are given examples to judge themselves. Each attendee is walked through the 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 thing to help them in both understanding and implementation of the standard.

Duration:

1 day