CIWM Waste Awareness Certificate

 (One day programme)

This one day course is aimed to help your company minimise waste and stay within the law.

Anyone can attend from shop floor worker to managers. Anyone who produces and has to dispose of waste in all types of business – hospitals, quarries, mines, factories, schools, hotels etc, will benefit from this course and it is applicable to almost every type of organisation

Programme Outline

• Learn about different types of waste
• Know your legal responsibilities
• How to conduct a waste audit to identify cost savings
• How to reduce, reuse and recycle waste
• Learn about routes for remaining wastes
• Deal with waste safely
• Identify sources of help.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe their responsibilities in dealing with waste
• Describe what wastes are
• Provide examples of how, where and when wastes are produced in their work
• Distinguish between different types and natures of wastes
• Understand the order of magnitude of the volumes of the different types of wastes nationally
• Explain the waste hierarchy
• Demonstrate awareness of the principal current wastes management practices
• Identify the main impacts of wastes on the environment
• Describe the differences between sustainable and non sustainable wastes management practices
• Explain the importance of legislation in promoting best practice in wastes management
• Explain the basic principles underpinning Duty of Care and how their actions are important
• Demonstrate an awareness of their employers responsibility with regard to Health & Safety issues in the handling, moving and storage of wastes
• Demonstrate how they fulfil their personal responsibilities with regard to Health & Safety issues in the handling, moving and storage of wastes
• Describe the key stages in conducting a waste audit
• List sources of further information and help