

Environment Management for Power Plants
Overview:
Introduction:
You will learn about the Best Worldwide Practices in Power Plant Environmental Technology and Management. Step-by-Step Setting Up a Power Plant Quality Assured Good Environmental Management System.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course, the participants will be able to:
- Understand the business benefits of sound environmental management
- Appreciate the environmental management systems
- Know how legislation and international conventions affect businesses
- Become knowledgeable of environmental terms
- Understand the process of waste minimization
- Explore the types of emergencies that have effects on the environment
- Plan an environmental management program
Targeted Audience:
Those new to the field take away a good multi-discipline understanding of the issues involved in their work. It helps them in becoming productive quickly and in building a knowledge framework that will help them identify, understand, classify, and remember the job learning and experiences.
Implementation Teams: This program can be used to train implementation teams - when a new project or initiative is being started in your organization; when a new strategic focus is being initiated; just prior to a consultant being hired to advise the organization.
Course Outlines:
Unit 1: Environmental Context:
- How humans interact with the environment?
- Definitions: ‘climate change’, ‘air’, ‘water and land pollution’, ‘biodiversity’ and ‘depletion of natural resources’
- The costs of environmental pollution
- The hydrological cycle and the carbon cycle
- Resource Consumption
- Waste minimization
Unit 2: Environmental Legislation & Management:
- Key aspects and requirements of UK legislation
- Environmental Protection Act, IPPC, PPC
- European directives and national legislation impact on commercial activities
- Common Management Systems
- Environmental Management Systems
- EMAS, ISO 14001
Unit 3: Environmental Aspects & Policy:
- Identify how an organization’s activities can affect the environment
- Identify and describe an organization’s environmental aspects
- Evaluate the significance of environmental effects to prioritize an organization’s environmental activities indirect aspects that might influence supplier performance
- How to write an environmental policy?
- Appropriate techniques to disseminate the policy
Unit 4: Environmental Management Techniques & Training:
- Practical environmental management techniques in waste minimization
- Prioritize actions needed to improve performance
- Changing work activities to improve environmental performance
- Benefits of environmental awareness and management education
- Factors to be considered in the development and content of the training program
- The necessity for feedback and evaluation
Unit 5: Environmental Auditing, Reporting, and Emergency Plans:
- Undertake an internal audit to an agreed specification and make recommendations
- Producing an environmental report adopting good practice features
- Types of emergency that might have an impact on the environment
- How prior preparation and provision of training and resources can mitigate any effects?