ISO 14001:2026 Environmental Management Systems Awareness
A practical, visual introduction to ISO 14001, the international standard for environmental management systems, taught against the current 2026 edition. Learn what an environmental management system is and why organisations certify, how context and interested parties are determined, what environmental aspects and impacts are and how the life cycle perspective applies, what compliance obligations and operational control mean in practice and how performance is monitored, audited and improved. Written for people in a certified organisation, or one heading that way, with no environmental background assumed.
~40 minutes100% online, self-paced6 months access from the day of course start
What You Will Learn
Explain what an environmental management system is and how it differs from environmental law and licence conditions
Describe how an organisation determines its context, its environmental conditions and its interested parties
Explain environmental aspects and impacts, and what the life cycle perspective adds to them
Describe what compliance obligations and operational control mean, including for externally provided processes
Recognise how environmental performance is monitored, audited and improved, and what your part in that is
Course Content
1. What an environmental management system is
2. Context, conditions and interested parties
3. Aspects, impacts and the life cycle
4. Obligations and operational control
5. Checking, auditing and improving
6. Apply it: an environmental decision
Final Assessment - 10 questions, 80% pass mark, retakes available
Who This Course Is For
Workers, supervisors, managers and contractors in an organisation certified to ISO 14001 or working towards certification and anyone who wants to understand what the standard asks of them.
Accreditation: This is a non-accredited awareness course. It builds general awareness of the ISO 14001 environmental management system standard and does not issue a formal qualification. Completing it does not certify you, does not certify your organisation and is not a substitute for an audit by an accredited certification body, for your organisation's own environmental procedures or for the environmental laws, licences and approvals that apply where you work.
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Integrated Management Systems Awareness
$39 per person
$39.00
Prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
Duration
~40 minutes
Format
100% online, self-paced
Lessons
6
Assessment
10 questions (80% to pass)
Certificate
Instant, verifiable
Access period
6 months access from the day of course start
Who it’s for
Workers, supervisors, managers and contractors in an organisation certified to ISO 14001 or working towards certification and anyone who wants to understand what the standard asks of them.
Buying for a team? Set the quantity to the number of people. You’ll receive an enrolment code for each seat.
