Environmental Awareness Training Online Course

Duration 2 hours

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Our everyday actions have a significant impact on the environment around us, contributing to challenges, such as climate change and resource depletion. Understanding our environmental impact and adopting sustainable practices is crucial for mitigating these challenges and promoting a healthier planet for future generations.

This course equips you with the understanding and awareness needed to make more sustainable choices and support environmental initiatives within your workplace and local community. Through this training, you’ll gain an awareness of your own environmental impact, exploring how everyday choices, such as the materials you use, the waste you create and the products you buy, impact the environment. The course is suitable for anyone who wants to understand and reduce their environmental impact, including those who have been mandated to take the course by their employer, as well as those taking it out of personal interest. It is not suitable for those who are responsible for creating environmental policies at work.

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What you'll learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Demonstrate an increased awareness of your personal environmental impact, both within the workplace and at home.
Explain the connection between sustainable workplace practices, the local community, and the impact on the wider ecosystem.
Demonstrate an understanding of the environmental principles that guide existing policies and best practice for sustainability in your workplace.
Identify the benefits of engaging in environmental initiatives, both in the workplace and at home.

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Accredited by CPD

All of our courses are accredited by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to universally accepted Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Assured by RoSPA Qualifications

This course is also assured by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents through their RoSPA Qualifications Assurance System, as providing up-to-date, quality and content-approved training.

Recommended renewal:

1 year

What does this mean? This certificate does not have an expiry date, however, based on industry best practice guidelines there is a recommended renewal period.

Course in action

Course screenshot showing scope 1, 2 and 3 around emissions

Course screenshot beginning to explain what businesses can do

Course screenshot showing a series of sustainable choices

Sample Environmental Awareness Certificate

Why take this course?

The collective human impact on the environment poses significant challenges for the future of the planet. Addressing issues like climate change, resource depletion and biodiversity loss is crucial for mitigating these challenges.

This Environmental Awareness training course gives you the knowledge to understand your personal environmental impact, both in the workplace and at home. It explains how sustainable practices affect your local community and the wider ecosystem, empowering you to make informed choices to reduce your negative impact and engage in environmental initiatives for a more sustainable future.

Module 1: Reduce resource consumption

This module introduces the resources you consume daily, including raw materials, water and energy, such as electricity and fuel, and their environmental impact. It offers energy efficiency as a practical approach to addressing climate challenges and explains the direct link between reduced energy consumption and positive environmental outcomes.

Module 2: Reduce the impact of waste

This module outlines the environmental consequences of waste, contrasting the linear and circular economy models. It explains the waste hierarchy and relevant waste regulations, providing practical resources and actionable tips for effectively reducing, reusing and recycling materials.

Module 3: Take pro-environmental action

This module covers the pro-environmental actions that can further mitigate environmental issues. It explores sustainable purchasing choices, highlights plastic pollution's significant impact and provides information on initiatives to promote biodiversity.

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The online assessment is taken on completion of the training material. You will be asked 10 multiple choice questions with a pass mark of 80%. The answers are marked automatically so that you’ll instantly know whether you passed. If you don't pass don't worry! You can take the test as many times as you need with no extra charge.

This is an introductory level course on the topic of environmental awareness. It is suitable for workers of all levels, including employees, managers, supervisors and employers, and no previous knowledge is required. Working more sustainably is the responsibility of every workplace and ensuring staff have a sufficient understanding of the subject will help businesses to achieve their environmental objectives.

Written by experts

Karen Gallagher MSc, BSc(hons), CEnv, CRWM, MCIWM, SFHEA is an environmental specialist with over 25 years of experience helping organisations enhance their environmental performance. She is currently the Managing Partner at Gallagher Consulting and Training, advising a diverse portfolio of clients on environmental strategy, management and compliance. Karen previously served as Certification Director for an international certification body, overseeing environmental and sustainability services for clients in the UK, US, Europe, and Japan. Her experience also includes senior sustainability roles within leading Russell Group universities, where she led institutional sustainability initiatives.

Karen has a wealth of experience in the development and implementation of sustainability strategies, change management, capacity building, risk management, corporate reporting, environmental compliance and training.