CONSTRUCTION ENVIRONMENT AWARENESS

This one-day course has been structured to enhance company owners’, managers’, supervisors’, and workers’ knowledge and awareness concerning the environment in the workplace. Also included is an overview insight on regulatory requirements, global issues, and industry standards that affect construction activities across Canada.

This course is for the construction industry and the topics discussed will provide the basic fundamental knowledge required for the development and implementing an environmental management system for employers in the construction industry

Course Objectives:

• Enhance knowledge and awareness of the workplace environment

• Review global issues

• Provide a regulatory and legal overview

• Review industry standards

• Legal issues

Course Content:

• Understanding the environment

• Global environmental overview

• Construction and the environment

• Environmental regulatory standards

• Construction and the law

• Environmental assessments

• Contract considerations

• Regulatory requirements

• Legal issues

• Environmental management systems

• Handling spills — resource education/training for drums and other small spills