Health, Safety, Security and Environment
Environmental Impact and Life Cycle Assessments (ISO14001/14040/14041)
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Environmental Impact and Life Cycle Assessments (ISO14001/14040/14041) Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Articulate the value of a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
- Approach complex problems with systems thinking
- Outline the steps to conduct an attributional LCA
- Define the life cycle stages of products or services
- Form a goal and scope statement and system boundary of an LCA
- Construct a flowsheet and perform a life cycle inventory of a process.
- Be able to apply allocation methods for co-products
- Perform an environmental impact assessment associated with a life cycle inventory
- Interpret, critique, and communicate LCA results
- Upload datasets, transfer LCA models, export LCA results, and analyze data in a commercial LCA software package, openLCA
- Understand the relationship between software and LCA datasets
- Conduct a life cycle assessment with commercial LCA software
- What is the carbon footprint and energy efficiency of a product that is being developed for commercial scale?
- How can I make a decision as to whether a feedstock/synthesis pathway/processing method/product is environmentally preferable?
- How do I communicate the environmental impact of a new product or process to others?
- How does the substitution of a plant-based renewable feedstock for a petroleum-based feedstock impact the overall environmental friendliness of a product?
- What is the human and ecological toxicity impact of a given process in the chemical processing industry?
- How does the choice of a processing variable, such as solvent choice or energy source, impact the overall environmental impacts of a product?
Who Should Attend?
- Environmental and HSE professionals (Managers, engineers, superintendents, supervisors, officers etc)
- Those wishing to develop a good understanding of the evaluation of environmental aspects and impacts and how life-cycle assessment can be used to generate useful information for the organization
- Those wishing to begin a study of design for environment requirements
- Those who contribute to the development of environmental objectives and targets
- Those responsible for setting up environmental management systems and developing preparatory environmental reviews.
Course Outlines:
The aim of this course is to provide the participants an overview of environmental impact assessment methods and procedures and explain the nature of environmental impact assessment. Upon the successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Learn the principles and nature of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as well as become familiar with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process
- Know the history of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and explain the purpose of the implementation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Illustrate the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) tasks, methods and techniques in accordance with the requirements of ISO 14040 and ISO 14041
- Understand the criteria for identification, screening and scoping of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as well as its project and environmental descriptions
- List the results of prediction of impacts and become familiar with assessing the significance of impacts
- Illustrate the proper procedure on preparation & review of environmental statements, consultation and public participation, mitigation and decision-making & monitoring and post-auditing of activities related to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Know the impact of the extension of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to non-project actions including the policies, plans and programmes
- Explain the proper identification of inputs and prediction of impacts in order to come up with significant decision-making involving Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Apply knowledge in reviewing an environmental statement
- Understand the methods and procedures of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to come up with a strategic environmental assessment
- Have heightened awareness on the future developments in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)