Health and Safety Skills: Environmental Legislation

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Course Overview

Environmental legislation is complex and constantly changing. National and European laws are affecting the way business operates. Traditional regulations designed to control 'end-of-pipe' pollution are being strengthened through IPPC and other legislation. There are new fiscal measures being introduced to make the polluter pay and encourage others to conserve natural resources. Their impact on your business could be far-reaching and have direct consequences on bottom line profitability. This course is designed to help you minimise that impact.

Your environmental management systems must enable your organisation to adopt a more strategic approach to both legislative requirements and environmental performance.

If these systems are to be sufficiently robust, they must be continuously modified in the light of changing requirements, with rigorous document controls enabling a clear audit trail.

This seminar gives you the opportunity to review current and proposed legislation, and the regulations that apply to your industry, and plan a strategy that will allow you to avoid potentially expensive mistakes.

Audience

• Environmental managers/advisers
• Health and safety managers and officers
• Environmental managers and advisers
• Health and safety managers and officers
• Management services managers
• Facilities managers and quality managers

All those involved in corporate social responsibility and environmental reporting

Skills Gained

This programme will

• Make you fully aware of your legal responsibilities

This programme will:

• Make you fully aware of your legal responsibilities
• Help you to understand how the law applies to your situation
• Provide extensive illustrations on how regulations might affect your business
• Help you to understand the relationship between environmental law and industry-specific regulations
• Help you anticipate developments in environmental law
• Identify how a continuous on-going review of environmental law contributes to effective environmental management systems
• Succeed in demonstrating how understanding and complying with the law helps improve environmental performance and reduces risk
• Help you to recognise the range of legal mechanisms used to protect the environment
• Give you a better understanding of the approach of regulators

This programme will help you ensure that you can manage environmental liabilities effectively and understand how environmental law and policy impact upon the performance of your business.

Course Outline

1. Introduction and overview

• Sources of law
• Key legislation
• Who's who in regulation
• Environmental awareness video

2. Pollution, Prevention Control and LAPC and air quality

• Pollution, Prevention and Control Act 1999
• Definitions and the permitting process
• The meaning of Best Available Techniques (BAT)
• Control of emissions to air that full outside the scope of permitting regimes
• National air quality strategy

3. Waste managment

• The Control of Pollution Act 1974
• Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005
• Environment Act 1995
• Waste Minimisation Act 1998
• Duty of care
• Authorised persons
• Controlled and special waste
• National Waste Strategy for England and Wales
• Targets and EU developments
• End of life vehicle (ELV)
• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive

4. Water law

• Water Resources Act 1991
• Water Industry Act 1991
• Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975
• EU developments

5. Packaging and producer responsibility

• Who, what and how
• The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997 (as amended)
• Obligations and exemptions
• Registration
• Recycling and recovery obligations
• Records
• Duties of The Environment Agency
• Offences
• Developments

6. Contaminated land and land use planning

• Legal framework on contaminated land
• The Contaminated Land (England) Regulations 2000
• Land use planning and development control
• Environmental assessment
• The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended)
• Nature and conservation

7. Noise Control

• Noise the consititutes a statutory nuisance
• Abatement notices
• The EPA '90 as amended by the Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act 1993
• The Control of Pollution Act 1974

8. Environmental Legislation and the courts

• Recent cases relating to the legislation covered

9. Environmental Management Systems (EMS)

• The two internationally recognised EMS systems
• ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems - specifications and guidance for use
• The EC's EMAS Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
• ISO 14001: basic principles and requirements
• EMAS registration requirements
• Links between ISO 14001 and EMAS
• Establishing a system
• Policy and review
• Registers of legal requirements and significant effects
• Objectives and targets
• Structure, responsibilities, training and documentation
• Monitoring and records
• Keeping up-to-date

10. Taxation and fiscal measures

• Landfill tax
• Levies
• Green taxes
• Climate change levy
• Licence fees

11. Case study

12. Feedback and discussion

Health and Safety Skills: Environmental Legislation / HS-EL