How do you get accurate data for your sustainability report and evaluate savings?
Knowing how to perform a proper sustainability audit allows you to understand your current natural resource usage, evaluate saving options and prove savings made. This information is also critical input for your integrated reporting and corporate governance initiatives. This course will show you the why, what and how of auditing for environmental Sustainability.
Why do a Sustainability Audit?
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t effectively manage it…”
Auditing is a critical part of any journey to sustainability. Conducting an environmental audit provides three core elements for a site or facility:
- Baselines or Benchmarks - Measurements and / or assessments that enable natural resource use to be compared against sustainability standards and regulations.
- Evaluation of Governance – Assessment of how the site or facility is directed and managed according to sustainability principles.
- Leadership Intervention – Opportunity for a site’s directors, managers or operators to implement best practice sustainability governance and interventions.
What can you expect?
This 2-day training workshop will provide you with the principles, process and practice for conducting a Sustainability Audit. The course is presented using case studies and experiential learning methods that encourage you to actively participate and best gain the practical skills required to audit a variety of sites from homes, complexes, and office buildings, to restaurants, hotels, factories, and whole estates.
Through participating in the course you will receive a workbook and DVD with resource material, and learn:
- Increased business efficiency – understand the importance, purpose and requirements of Sustainability Auditing
- Practical skills – know how to prepare and conduct a Sustainability Audit
- Integrated reporting – effectively communicate, report and disclose processes for Sustainability Auditing
- Green Economy planning – develop a retrofit plan and recommend sustainability interventions
What is the course content?
Course material has been developed using the integrated reporting framework provided by the benchmark Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the recommendations of King III corporate governance in South Africa, and the significant experience of icologie gained from conducting many Environmental Audits at sites and facilities across South Africa.
The course is presented over 2 days with theory and practical including:
Section 1 – Understanding
- Basic concepts of sustainability and climate change
- Core principles, methodologies and types of Environmental Auditing
- Governance and reporting, and standards and certification
Section 2 – Conducting
- Step-by-step planning and preparing for an Environmental Audit
- Developing audit indicators and collating data
- Compiling quality transparent audit reports
Section 3 – Evaluating
- Report recommendations and retrofit planning
- Costing sustainability interventions
- Auditing review processes and follow-up strategy
Who should attend?
The workshop is recommended for:
- Sustainability managers and staff
- Facilities, operations and buildings managers
- Safety and Environment (HSE) managers and staff
- Store and department managers
- Factory and plant managers
- Technical services managers and staff
- Human Resource (HR) managers and staff
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) managers and staff
- Communications managers
- New business managers
- Marketing managers and staff
- Environmental and energy consultants
What Does It Cost?
Only R3 995 per person plus VAT
The next courses are:
16 May 2012 – Intaka Island, Century City, Cape Town, SA
Includes lunch, refreshments and course materials. If you have dietary requirements, please let us know on the registration form.
