Training Module
Environmental Aspects & Impacts Assessment
Understand how to identify environmental aspects, evaluate impacts and significance, and maintain the assessment over time in an ISO 14001 context
Training Module
Environmental Aspects & Impacts Assessment
Understand how to identify environmental aspects, evaluate impacts and significance, and maintain the assessment over time in an ISO 14001 context
Training Module
Environmental Aspects & Impacts Assessment
Understand how to identify environmental aspects, evaluate impacts and significance, and maintain the assessment over time in an ISO 14001 context
Does your aspects register sit unused and incomplete, leaving environmental decisions to guesswork?
This module teaches how to identify environmental aspects, evaluate impacts and significance, and maintain a usable assessment for ISO 14001.
Does your aspects register sit unused and incomplete, leaving environmental decisions to guesswork?
This module teaches how to identify environmental aspects, evaluate impacts and significance, and maintain a usable assessment for ISO 14001.
Does your aspects register sit unused and incomplete, leaving environmental decisions to guesswork?
This module teaches how to identify environmental aspects, evaluate impacts and significance, and maintain a usable assessment for ISO 14001.
Training module overview
Training module overview
Training module overview
Many ISO 14001 systems fail quietly at the “aspects” step: the register exists, but it is incomplete, overly generic, disconnected from operational control, or not maintained as processes, sites, products, and suppliers change. The result is predictable—controls target the wrong things, emergencies are treated as separate from normal operations, and improvement becomes reactive.
This module focuses on the ISO 14001-specific discipline of identifying environmental aspects, understanding associated impacts, and determining significance using defined criteria and a lifecycle perspective. It is not a risk-methodology module and does not teach generic risk frameworks; it applies assumed evaluation logic to ISO 14001 expectations and shows how to keep the assessment credible, traceable, and usable for control, preparedness, and improvement.
Many ISO 14001 systems fail quietly at the “aspects” step: the register exists, but it is incomplete, overly generic, disconnected from operational control, or not maintained as processes, sites, products, and suppliers change. The result is predictable—controls target the wrong things, emergencies are treated as separate from normal operations, and improvement becomes reactive.
This module focuses on the ISO 14001-specific discipline of identifying environmental aspects, understanding associated impacts, and determining significance using defined criteria and a lifecycle perspective. It is not a risk-methodology module and does not teach generic risk frameworks; it applies assumed evaluation logic to ISO 14001 expectations and shows how to keep the assessment credible, traceable, and usable for control, preparedness, and improvement.
Applicable environments
This module applies to organisations implementing or operating an Environmental Management System (EMS) in line with ISO 14001. It focuses on how the standard’s requirements are interpreted and applied in practice within real organisational contexts.
The content is relevant for organisations seeking certification as well as for those using ISO 14001 as a reference framework to structure responsibilities, processes, and controls in the environmental management domain.
Target audience
Target audience
Target audience
People involved in designing, building, operating, or improving an EMS aligned with ISO 14001
Executives and department heads accountable for the effectiveness and performance of an EMS
Those responsible for processes, policies, assets, risks, and controls related to environmental management
Auditors of ISO 14001 who want to deepen their understanding of management-side best practices (not audit technique)
People involved in designing, building, operating, or improving an EMS aligned with ISO 14001
Executives and department heads accountable for the effectiveness and performance of an EMS
Those responsible for processes, policies, assets, risks, and controls related to environmental management
Auditors of ISO 14001 who want to deepen their understanding of management-side best practices (not audit technique)
Decision support
Is this module for you?
It is a good fit if you…
need a usable aspects and impacts assessment under ISO 14001.
want clear significance logic linked to control and change.
maintain an aspects register over time, not just for audits.
need traceable links between activities, impacts, and controls.
support audit-ready environmental decision-making.
need a usable aspects and impacts assessment under ISO 14001.
want clear significance logic linked to control and change.
maintain an aspects register over time, not just for audits.
need traceable links between activities, impacts, and controls.
support audit-ready environmental decision-making.
If most of the points above apply, this module is likely a good fit.
It may not be the best fit if you…
are looking for general environmental law or sustainability topics.
want risk management methods beyond ISO 14001 expectations.
expect technical environmental engineering solutions.
already run a mature, stable environmental aspects and impacts process.
are looking for general environmental law or sustainability topics.
want risk management methods beyond ISO 14001 expectations.
expect technical environmental engineering solutions.
already run a mature, stable environmental aspects and impacts process.
Agenda
Agenda
Agenda
Purpose and boundaries of “aspects & impacts” in ISO 14001
Define the assessment unit and coverage
Identify environmental aspects with a lifecycle perspective
Link aspects to impacts and significance
Compliance obligations and other constraints as inputs
Documented outputs and maintenance over time
Audit perspective: what auditors look for (ISO 14001-specific)
Case-based workshop
Show detailed agenda...
Purpose and boundaries of “aspects & impacts” in ISO 14001
Define the assessment unit and coverage
Identify environmental aspects with a lifecycle perspective
Link aspects to impacts and significance
Compliance obligations and other constraints as inputs
Documented outputs and maintenance over time
Audit perspective: what auditors look for (ISO 14001-specific)
Case-based workshop
Show detailed agenda...
Purpose and boundaries of “aspects & impacts” in ISO 14001
Define the assessment unit and coverage
Identify environmental aspects with a lifecycle perspective
Link aspects to impacts and significance
Compliance obligations and other constraints as inputs
Documented outputs and maintenance over time
Audit perspective: what auditors look for (ISO 14001-specific)
Case-based workshop
Show detailed agenda...
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Key outcomes
Define appropriate coverage for an environmental aspects and impacts assessment across activities, products, services and outsourced processes
Identify environmental aspects for normal, abnormal and emergency conditions using a practical lifecycle perspective
Apply significance criteria consistently, with clear rationale and traceability
Define appropriate coverage for an environmental aspects and impacts assessment across activities, products, services and outsourced processes
Identify environmental aspects for normal, abnormal and emergency conditions using a practical lifecycle perspective
Apply significance criteria consistently, with clear rationale and traceability
Additional capabilities
Explain and document how aspects relate to environmental impacts to support control decisions
Specify the minimum documented outputs required to keep the assessment usable over time
Recognise common weaknesses and, for auditors, articulate expectations for assessing whether the process is current, complete and actually used
Explain and document how aspects relate to environmental impacts to support control decisions
Specify the minimum documented outputs required to keep the assessment usable over time
Recognise common weaknesses and, for auditors, articulate expectations for assessing whether the process is current, complete and actually used
Additional benefits
Additional benefits
Additional benefits
Learning materials
Slide deck
Participant workbook
Templates & tools
Practical, reusable artefacts to apply the module directly to your organisation.
Environmental aspects & impacts register template
Significance criteria worksheet
Aspect-to-control linkage map
Change trigger checklist for maintaining the assessment
Environmental aspects & impacts register template
Significance criteria worksheet
Aspect-to-control linkage map
Change trigger checklist for maintaining the assessment
Confirmation
Certificate of completion
Module ID
HAM-EM-S-01
Domain
Audience
Auditor
Manager
Language
English
Delivery
Live virtual
Duration
7 h
List price
CHF 550
Excl. VAT. VAT may apply depending on customer location and status.
Delivery & learning format
Delivery & learning format
Delivery & learning format
Virtual live teaching
This module is delivered live, with a strong focus on discussion, practical application, and direct interaction with the instructor.
Sessions work through realistic examples, clarify concepts in context, and apply methods directly to participants’ organisational realities.
Custom delivery options
For organisations with specific constraints or learning objectives, the module can be adapted in format or scope, including in-house delivery and contextualised case material.
Not sure if this module is right for you?
Not sure if this module is right for you?
Not sure if this module is right for you?
For an optimal learning experience
Preparation guidance
This module is designed as part of a modular training approach. Topics are deliberately distributed across modules and are not repeated in full, in order to avoid unnecessary redundancy. Each module is self-contained and can be taken on its own. Where prior knowledge or experience is helpful, this is indicated below so you can decide whether any preparation is useful for you.
For an optimal learning experience
Preparation guidance
This module is designed as part of a modular training approach. Topics are deliberately distributed across modules and are not repeated in full, in order to avoid unnecessary redundancy. Each module is self-contained and can be taken on its own. Where prior knowledge or experience is helpful, this is indicated below so you can decide whether any preparation is useful for you.
For an optimal learning experience
Preparation guidance
This module is designed as part of a modular training approach. Topics are deliberately distributed across modules and are not repeated in full, in order to avoid unnecessary redundancy. Each module is self-contained and can be taken on its own. Where prior knowledge or experience is helpful, this is indicated below so you can decide whether any preparation is useful for you.
Assumed background
This module assumes general familiarity with management system concepts and the idea of documented information.
Participants should be comfortable working with:
Basic process descriptions (activities, inputs/outputs, interfaces, outsourced processes)
Using defined criteria to make consistent evaluations (the generic method is assumed, not taught)
This module assumes general familiarity with management system concepts and the idea of documented information.
Participants should be comfortable working with:
Basic process descriptions (activities, inputs/outputs, interfaces, outsourced processes)
Using defined criteria to make consistent evaluations (the generic method is assumed, not taught)
Preparatory modules
Foundational modules (depending on background)
Useful if you are new to the underlying concepts or want a shared baseline before attending this module.
Risk Management Foundations
Learn the fundamentals of identifying, evaluating, treating, and monitoring risks and opportunities across management systems
7 h
Risk Management Foundations
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Supporting modules (optional)
Helpful if you want to deepen related skills, but not required to participate effectively.
System Foundations
Understand organisational context, stakeholders, and system boundaries to build and operate effective management systems
7 h
System Foundations
Understand organisational context, stakeholders, and system boundaries to build and operate effective management systems
7 h
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Documentation & Knowledge Foundations
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Documentation & Knowledge Foundations
Fundamentals of documented information control, records, and knowledge capture for management systems
7 h
Continuous learning
Follow-up modules
Continuous learning
Follow-up modules
Continuous learning
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We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.
Ready to improve your management systems?
We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.
Ready to improve your management systems?
We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.