CIWM Waste Awareness Certificate Aims, Objectives & Learning Outcomes
TARGET AUDIENCE
Those people whose work practices produce waste or those people who need a greater understanding of waste principles.
AIMS
- To provide an introduction to wastes management
- To provide knowledge, understanding and skills to improve the management of wastes
OBJECTIVES
- To provide a new way of looking at the management of wastes by:
- Explaining what wastes are
- Providing an understanding of how and where wastes are produced in the workplace
- To provide an understanding of different types, natures and quantities of waste.
- To raise an awareness of the current waste management practices and disposal routes through the explanation of the wastes hierarchy
- To demonstrate the need to improve waste management practices by:
- Explaining the impact of wastes on the environment
- Explaining what are sustainable practices in wastes management
- To demonstrate how legislation, in particular the Duty of Care, helps to promote best practices in the management of wastes
- To raise awareness of the health and safety issues in the handling, movement and storage of wastes by:
- Providing an overview of the employers responsibilities
- Providing fundamental knowledge of the individuals responsibilities
- To enable participants to conduct basic waste audits.
- To guide participants to the key sources of further information and 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
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