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Certificates: Environment & Sustainability Manager" certificate
Integrated management systems" certificate -
Additional Certificates: "Sustainability manager with TÜV Rheinland-certified qualification" certificate
Certificate "Environmental protection officer with TÜV Rheinland-certified qualification"
Certificate "Environmental manager with TÜV Rheinland-certified qualification" -
Examination: Practical project work with final presentations
Sustainability manager with TÜV Rheinland-certified qualification
Environmental protection officer with TÜV Rheinland-certified qualification
Environmental manager with TÜV Rheinland-certified qualification -
Teaching Times: Full-timeMonday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
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Language of Instruction: German
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Duration: 16 Weeks
Sustainability manager
Introduction to the topic of sustainability (approx. 2 days)
Term/definition of sustainability
Meaning of value orientation, social responsibility
Sustainable Development Goals (the 17 goals)
Sustainable corporate management
Stakeholder orientation and management
Instruments, models and systems of sustainable management with CSR and ESG model
Tasks of sustainability managers
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies and possible applications in the professional environment
Environment and risk analyses (approx. 2 days)
Presentation of tools and models
Stakeholder analysis with requirements
Analysis of sustainability factors
Double materiality analysis
Framework conditions, laws, regulations (approx. 2 days)
Legal regulations of the EU/ BRD
DIN EN ISO 26000:2021
ZNU standard for sustainable management
DIN EN ISO 14040/14044 and 14064/14067 (life cycle assessment and carbon footprint)
Co2 certificates
Sustainability in companies (approx. 2 days)
Sustainability in operational processes
and procedures
Standardized management systems
Goals and mission statements
Sustainability management tools
Monitoring, measurement and CIP
Sustainability reporting (approx. 3 days)
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)
Reporting tools, logos, seals and symbols
Sustainability reporting
Common sustainability standards with DNR, GRI
Insight into the sustainability report
Structure/content/creation of a sustainability report
Development of a sustainability management system (approx. 4 days)
Basic analysis - identification of gaps between existing management system regulations
Integration strategy and planning
Design and implementation of a sustainability management system (NMS)
Integration into existing management systems
Sustainability controlling with key figures
Innovations and current trends (approx. 2 days)
International and supranational initiatives
Climate protection and human rights in supply chains
Sustainable corporate culture and communication
Greenwashing
Sustainable digitalization
Project work, certification preparation and certification exam "Sustainability Manager: in TÜV Rheinland certified qualification" (approx. 3 days)
Environmental protection officer with TÜV Rheinland-certified qualification
Basics (approx. 2 days)
Environmental law: operator obligations, responsibilities, liability
Rights and obligations of company representatives
Environmental liability law
Administrative offenses and environmental criminal law
Waste management (approx. 4 days)
Waste law
Recycling and Waste Management Act
Subordinate legislation, including NachwV, AVV, AbfAEV, EfbV
Differentiation between product and waste, product regulations (e.g. commercial waste)
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies and possible applications in the professional environment
Water protection (approx. 3 days)
Water law
Water Resources Act (WHG)
Wastewater levy and water usage fees
Indirect discharger ordinance
Sub-legal regulations, including AwSV, AbwV (wastewater disposal/discharge, handling of substances hazardous to water)
Immission control (approx. 4 days)
Immission control law
Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG)
Subordinate legislation to the BImSchG (including BImSchV, TA-Luft, TA-Lärm)
Other relevant legal regulations, including UVPG
Plant approval
Implementation of the IED Directive
Hazardous substances/chemicals law (approx. 4 days)
Basics of handling hazardous substances (including GefStoffV, TRGS)
ChemG
Requirements for the storage of hazardous substances according to VbF and TRGS
Safety data sheets and operating instructions
Dangerous goods in distinction to waste law
Basics of GGVSEB, ADR
Project work, certification preparation and certification examination "Environmental Protection Officer with TÜV Rheinland-certified qualification" (approx. 3 days)
Environmental manager with TÜV Rheinland-certified qualification
Management systems (approx. 1 day)
Function and structure of management systems
IMS - integrated management systems (approx. 2 days)
Synergy effects through IMS
High Level Structure (HLS)
What are requirements?
Who sets requirements?
Requirements for environmental management systems ISO 14001, EMAS
Requirements from ISO 14001
Context of the organization (approx. 1 day)
Understanding the context
Expectations of interested parties (stakeholder approach and stakeholder analysis)
Scope of the EMS
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies and possible applications in the professional environment
Leadership (approx. 3 days)
Leadership and commitment
Environmental and energy policy
Roles, responsibilities and powers
Internal and external communication
Communication models
Environmental statement/energy balance sheet as an instrument of external communication
Planning an EMS/EnMS (approx. 5 days)
Measures for dealing with hazards and opportunities or risk-based approach (risk analysis and FMEA)
Significant environmental aspects for EMS/EnMS
Consideration of product life cycle and value chain
EMAS III: additional aspects and requirements
Implementation of the EMS/EnMS (approx. 4 days)
Identification, description, evaluation of environmentally relevant processes and procedures
Implementation of environmental law requirements - legal compliance
LkSG - Supply Chain Duty of Care Act
Management system documentation
Environmental performance assessment and key figures
Energy balance
Auditing/certification/validation
Communication in audits
Improvement processes (approx. 1 day)
CIP
Non-conformity
Conclusion
Project work, certification preparation and certification exam "Environmental Manager with TÜV Rheinland certified qualification" (approx. 3 days)
Integrated management systems (IMS)
The Big Five (approx. 1 day)
ISO 9001, 14001, 27001, 45001, 50001
Non-ISO standards for IMS
IATF, EMAS, MDR etc.
Management system (MS) (approx. 4 days)
General
Components - objectives, processes, resources, performance monitoring
PDCA cycle as an improvement cycle
Focus on standards
Relationships - understanding and implementing the system approach
Process-oriented approach vs. function-oriented approach
Difficulty of introducing management systems
Basics - purpose and objective of Management System Standard (MSS)
Standard applications and requirements
Application - Implementation of standard requirements
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Integration preparation (approx. 2 days)
Managing the integration
Defining the area of application
"Scope, context, interested parties
Scope of application of combined
MSS or IMS
Planning the integration
Linking IMS and MSS standards (approx. 1 day)
Structuring the IMS
Structuring the requirements of MSS standards
"Mapping" of the requirements
Integrating the MSS standards into the IMS (approx. 1 day)
Analyze gaps
Closing the gaps through further measures
Reviewing the measures
Maintaining integration (approx. 1 day)
Maintaining and improving integration
Document requirements (approx. 1 day)
Various MSS standards and other stakeholders
Documentation options for an IMS
Documentation for audit preparation
Auditing the IMS (approx. 2 days)
Audit definitions, audit types and audit principles
Parties interested in the IMS audit
Requirements of different audits
Audits in companies
Audit program
Audit plan
Audit questionnaire
Certification of MSS
Certification of an IMS (approx. 1 day)
Parts worthy of certification
Combined or integrated audit
Selection of certifiers
Application and procedure
Complexity of IMS (approx. 3 days)
Summary of all contents
Opportunities and risks
Outlook and discussion
Typical communication problems in organizations
Roles, duties and powers
Communication with different stakeholders
Communication methods
Communication with documents
Project work (approx. 3 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Changes are possible. The course content is updated regularly.
After the course, you will know how to set up effective sustainability management in a company and how to implement a corresponding roadmap. You will also have the necessary understanding of European and German environmental law. You will be able to assess risks and take measures to meet all of a company's technical and organizational requirements in the area of environmental protection. You are also familiar with approaches, process models and systems to make processes even more successful.
You also have an in-depth understanding of the most important ISO standards and their integration. You know the basics of management systems, have mastered the process-oriented approach and understand the challenges of implementation. You will be able to plan, structure and implement an IMS, effectively integrating different standards. You also have skills in auditing, certification and documentation of IMS. With this knowledge, you will be able to successfully introduce, audit and continuously improve complex management systems in organizations.
This course is aimed at employees who want to operate sustainably in their organization and are interested in sustainability solutions in various areas of the company.
Graduates are in demand to implement sustainability strategies and comply with legal requirements. The growing importance of sustainability opens up career prospects in various sectors.
Numerous requirements and standards also determine the everyday life of companies and make it difficult to reduce the internal administrative workload in order to achieve an increase in productivity and greater process efficiency. By creating an integrated management system (IMS), a standardized system can be used for different areas, thus reducing the complexity of processes and the internal administrative burden. Employees with the relevant expertise to set up such an IMS are in demand on the job market across all sectors.
Didactic concept
Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).
You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.
Virtual classroom alfaview®
Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.
The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).