EMS Auditing for QMS Auditors.

You are an experienced Internal QMS Auditor who wants to carry out EMS or combined QMS/EMS internal audits.

• The purpose, intent and key requirements of ISO 14001 and the similarities with ISO 9001
• The business benefits of implementing an EMS and the background to ISO 14001 and EMAS
• The contribution internal EMS audits can make to the effectiveness of your management system
• How to determine environmental aspects and impacts
• The importance and relevance of environmental aspects and impacts and environmental legislation
• How to plan your audits by developing effective checklists
• How to verify that current practice in your organisation conforms with defined requirements
• That auditing for conformity can improve the stability and robustness of management systems
• To gather objective evidence through observation, interviewing and sampling of documentation
• To report the findings accurately
• What corrective action is and who is responsible for taking action
• How to follow up and verify the effectiveness of corrective action taken.

Ideally, to have received formal training in internal auditing of a QMS and have carried out a number of audits.

Two days.