ISO Lead Auditor Seminars

Agenda

Below you will find a general agenda for the ISO 14001 and 45001 Lead Auditor Training. Upon sign up of each individual course, each attendee will receive a more detailed agenda and itinerary for the course.

Day 1

• Course Overview
• Environmental Management Systems
  • Understand the application of environmental management principles
  • Understand the application of environmental science and technology
  • Understand the application of environmental systems to different operational processes
  • Assess the risk of significant environmental aspects and impacts identified in the context of the organization’s EMS management system
  • Assess the effectiveness of methodologies to control environmental hazards
  • Understand the requirements of ISO 14001:2015
  • Operational control & legal compliance
  • Assess the EMS roles and responsibilities within the context of the organizational environment
  • Determine the adequacy and effectiveness of the EMS

Day 2

• Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems
  • Understand the application of OH&S management principles in the context of ISO 45001
  • Relate the OH&S management system to the organizational products, including services and operational processes
  • Understand the application of OH&S management principles
• Evaluations; retesting as necessary

Day 3

• Auditing
  • Understand the application of the principles, procedures and techniques of auditing
  • The conduct of an effective audit in the context of the auditee’s organizational situation
  • Personal attributes necessary for the effective and efficient conduct of a management system audit
• Mock Audit
• Lead Auditing
  • Establish, plan and task the activities of an audit team
  • Communicate effectively with the auditee and audit client
  • Organize and direct audit team members
  • Prevent and resolve conflict with the auditee and/or within the audit team

Day 4

• Evaluations; re-testing as necessary.
  • Note: there is no final exam. Competencies are tested throughout the course. Day 4 is reserved as a half day to cover any overflow topics not covered in Days 1 to 3, complete evaluations, and/or re-testing (as necessary). Please note that competencies are tested through the course and there is no final exam.

What will you gain?

• Understand the benefits of both ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 systems, including integration
• Hear, discuss and exchange best practices with attendees and instructor in a constructive environment
• Learn how to implement a management systema and audit program
• Learn how to prepare, perform, and lead an audit
• Learn how to evaluate and report audit findings
• Satisfy the training requirements for two certifications in 1 week

What makes Our course different?

A Value added experience is what we strive to achieve with every training we provide. What makes our course different is we make the class for the EHS professionals managing programs at industrial and commercial facilities. Throughout the course we will discuss best practices on not only how to audit each component of the Standard, but also how to implement, manage and improve each component of your program both to meet the Standard and Regulatory requirements. With our extensive experience with a wide range of industries we have come across many ways to do things and we want to help you find what is best for you and your organization. We want you to walk away from our class with a few new ideas and feeling rejuvenated to improve and implement new programs to meet your goals. 

What are EHS management systems?

They are a way to keep you organized and on schedule with the requirements of your organization, government, customers and other stakeholders by identifying repeatable steps to control processes within departments and the organization as a whole.  Processes need to be controlled from the manufacturing floor to Leadership to ensure everyone is working as a cohesive unit. But, it is not an easy task to control those various groups of people together and establish communication channels between them, which is why Management Systems were developed and are being voluntarily implemented at a more rapid pace in the last five years than the previous twenty. Management Systems help an organization maintain history as well to learn from past mistakes and successes to use as guides for implementing preventive action measures. Every step in improving your management system should be rooted in self-evaluation, corrective and preventive action, and heightened employee awareness to help you reach your goals and create the desired company culture.  

About the Instructor

Anthony DeMarco has served as Vice President of Consulting Services of BCA Consultants since 2016 and prior to that was a Project Manager at BCA since 2010. During his time at BCA, Anthony has been involved with a wide range of environmental, health, safety and energy related work. His experiences includes a range of industry types as well including steel, aluminum, pharmaceutical, chemical production, automotive supplier and OEM, and plastics. This allows Mr. DeMarco to understand the full breadth of a Management System life cycle and can translate best practices across industry types. Mr. DeMarco has been providing Lead Auditor training since 2018 and includes ISO 14001, 45001 and 9001. Since 2015, Anthony has been providing internal auditor trainings and continues to provide internal auditor trainings to clients for ISO 1400, 45001, 9001 and 50001. 

Anthony’s background is rooted in EHS compliance; therefore, understands how to roll compliance activities into system processes for commercial and manufacturing facilities. His experience includes new source and modification permitting for Title V, NPDES, Industrial Wastewater, Solid Waste Processing, RCRA and a number of other environmental related permits. Reporting projects include emissions reporting, GHG, Tier II, Form R, RCRA Hazardous Waste Manifest, TSCA, and NESHAP. Mr. DeMarco is also heavily involved with contingency plans such as SPCC, SWPPP, Emergency Action Plans, and RCRA Contingency Plans. Other safety programs that he has assisted clients with includes HazComm, LOTO, Hot Work, Confined Space, Harnesses, Fork Lift and gas hazards.