IEMA Announces changes to Associate Certificate Syllabus

In a recent letter to all training providers of the AIEMA Certificate, IEMA have announced changes to the content of the course. The new standard will give delegates a range of knowledge more closely aligned to the demands of being an environmental professional.

Corporate Risk Systems’ unique Applied Learning approach to the course requires delegates to learn by doing rather than the ‘chalk and talk’ approach from other providers. The course is the next step for candidates who have an existing qualification such as the NEBOSH Environmental Certificate, but want to be able to learn how to put the knowledge into practice in the work place. The course can be completed in candidates own time and workplace with limited disruption and is based around six units:

1.    Global Environmental Issues
2.    Environmental Law
3.    Environmental Techniques
4.    Environmental Management Systems
5.    Environmental Communication
6.    Sustainability

The key changes to the course align with the CRS’s ‘learning by doing’ approach, incorporating a range of learning outcomes that focus of being an agent for change within an organisation rather that additional environmental academic knowledge, with new learning outcomes such as:

• Describe the main components of an environmental business case
• Explain the importance of environmental sustainability in value chain management
• Collect, analyse and report on environmental information and data
• Influence behaviour and implement change to improve sustainability
  

Corporate Risk Systems will be launching the new version of the qualification at a special event at Force India Formula One Team’s base this summer, if you are interested please contact Ros Stacey For more details