ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY
(IEMA) Working with Environmental Sustainability: aimed at the workforce
This one-day course provides employees in any role with the knowledge to do their job in a greener way to support organisational goals.
That reference to “all jobs” points to a training issue of global proportions, and such an aim – to environmentally up-skill the world’s workforce – is obviously a colossal undertaking. But thanks to a suite of courses for non-environmental staff specially developed by environment and training experts, it is entirely possible.
All Jobs Greener, a tiered collection of three courses that aims to make environmental knowledge and understanding a ‘mainstream’ element of every role in every business across the globe, was launched by IEMA and City & Guilds in late-2013. Together with IEMA’s specialist qualifications and the Environmental Skills Map for dedicated Environment & Sustainability professionals, these courses for the entire workforce of any and every company provide a cohesive package, which enables all organisations to achieve their environmental goals.
Driven by an ambition to upskill individuals, organisations, supply chains and even entire economies, these “mainstreaming” courses train and certificate the entire workforce in core environmental principles, getting all staff – not just the skilled and qualified Environment & Sustainability professionals – engaged in achieving the organisation’s environmental targets. With all staff from the track to the boardroom understanding how they can have a direct impact on reductions in energy consumption, waste and resource use, they are equipped to make the right decisions about how they work. By empowering its staff, this catalyses the organisation’s ability to meet its targets, reduce their impact and save money.
So while training and environmental budgets often take a hit, viewing them as an investment can result in serious payback. The companies that will really survive and thrive when the environment inevitably presents challenges are the ones who take a holistic and visionary approach to their most valuable asset; their staff. It’s our role to ensure that the ones who really get it are supported and equipped to make a difference.
Targeted according to the employees’ role, there are two formal qualifications, and one strategy session for senior staff:
It is perfect for those working in any job role across all sectors, to ensure that environmental sustainability is embedded into all job roles of a company. It covers the main environmental
Case Study – Network Rail
IEMA and Network Rail have spent the past year developing a tailor-made training and development programme at scale, which breaks new ground for the industry.
Network Rail “run, maintain and develop Britain’s rail tracks, signalling, bridges, tunnels, level crossings, viaducts and 19 key stations”. Operating on such a scale of infrastructure, project,
contractor management, value
chain, estates and facilities management and human resources leaves the organisation more at risk from the changing climate and resource security threats than many. As a result, Network Rail has established a central sustainability objective that enables the organisation to deliver continued service and meet the expected 140% increase in demand for rail services over the coming 30 years.
Under the leadership of head of sustainable development for Infrastructure Projects and IEMA Member Tertius Beneke, and with the full support of the Network Rail head of sustainable business strategy Iain Groark, Network Rail has agreed a programme of activity to safeguard railway operations in the face of extreme weather and threatened resource security.
risks and opportunities facing organisations, the importance of resource efficiency, the impacts of pollution, prevention, control and legislation, the impact of transport and knowing how employees support environmental sustainability.
(IEMA) Managing with Environmental Sustainability: aimed at managers
This training gives managers and supervisors an operational and strategic understanding of the environment and the way that it affects their team or function.
All training and the short answer test can
be completed in two days. To complete the qualification a work-based report is also required.
Recognising that the knowledge, understanding and buy-in of its 33,000 employees are absolutely
critical to the success and
achievement of the objective, Network Rail worked with IEMA to use the Environmental Skills Map to define the necessary competencies for its environmental staff and those of its contractors. In collaboration, IEMA and Network Rail extended the framework of environmental competencies to include all staff from its leadership teams, through managers and supervisors and the wider workforce.
In order to ensure its employees are equipped to meet those competencies, a high-quality training programme that can be tailored and delivered at scale was needed. IEMA recommended the newly-launched All Jobs Greener courses, which will arm all employees across all levels of responsibility, accountability and job function with relevant environmental knowledge and understanding to help achieve the Sustainability targets and objectives.
To ensure complete buy-in from its stable of
contractors, Network Rail invited the
commercial directors of each organisation to sign a Sustainability Charter, committing them to an appropriate programme of training.
operational overview of environmental sustainability.
This is a succinct half-day session for senior business executives. Delegates leave the session with a new understanding of the short, mid and long-term opportunities and challenges that environmental sustainability presents in value creation for their organisation.
There are no formal assessments,
however
delegates are instead asked to make organisational commitments.
Jonathan Nobbs
FOR MORE INFORMATION
www.iema.net/alljobsgreener
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(IEMA) Leading with Environmental Sustainability: aimed at leaders
This strategy sessions gives senior executives, board members and investors a strategic understanding of the risks and opportunities presented by a changing environment on their ability to do business.
It aims to provide senior executives across all sectors of business with a strategic and
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