Course Introduction
This revision is no longer a simple technical revision, but a deep response to global challenges such as the increasingly severe climate crisis, biodiversity loss and supply chain transparency, aiming to promote enterprise environmental management from "passive compliance" to "actively creating value." The new standard clearly responds to the climate crisis and ecosystem destruction, requiring enterprises to consider the impact of external environmental conditions such as climate change, biodiversity loss and resource scarcity on enterprise survival and development when formulating strategies. This course includes interpretation of ISO 14001:2026 standard content and internal audit knowledge explanation, which can effectively help organization internal auditors improve audit capability and audit efficiency, so as to ensure the effectiveness, impartiality and systematicness of organizational environmental management system audits.
Training Benefits
- Comprehensively understand the requirements of the new ISO 14001:2026
- Help existing enterprise management personnel and environmental management system internal auditors effectively combine and apply ISO 14001:2026 environmental management system requirements
- Master the knowledge and skills of how to organize, plan and implement internal audits, write reports and continuously improve
- Become familiar with audit methods, processes and techniques, improve enterprise quality management level, and assist the organization's decision-making level in completing organizational development goals
- Understand issues to note for effectively conducting audits, and master the application of the ISO 14001:2026 process approach in the audit process
Target Participants
- Personnel engaged in environmental management work such as environmental engineers, EHS engineers, etc., middle and senior management personnel engaged in enterprise management, internal auditors and other related personnel
Course Outline
- Introduction to ISO, reasons for revising the standard, key changes
- International situation of environmental management and introduction to ISO/TC 176
- Explanation of ISO 14001:2026 standard
- Summary of main changes in ISO 14001:2026
- Audit terminology definitions
- Audit principles
- Eight steps of auditing
- Audit planning
- Determining audit scope
- Forming audit team
- Writing audit plan
- Writing checklists
- Techniques for holding opening meetings
- Case analysis
- On-site audit exercise
- Audit methods, audit records
- Reasonable sampling
- Conformity determination
- Audit team communication meeting
- Audit conclusions
- Closing meeting
- System conformity determination
- Audit report
- Nonconformity report
- Audit nonconformity follow-up
- Case analysis
- On-site exercise