Natural Capital - Environmental and Sustainable Development Consultancy

Training and communications feature highly in all the new and emerging management systems such as ISO 14001 and the updated ISO 9000 series. This is simply due to the recognition that any successful business or organisation that wishes to continuously improve relies not only on the caliber of its workforce - employees that are competent and motivated - but also on their ability to communicate effectively.

Services

Natural Capital offers a range of services in this area;

• Environmental Awareness Training: Training staff and raising awareness about environmental issues is an essential part of delivering the targets within and EMS such as ISO 14001 and reducing an organisation's impact on the environment. Increasing a workforce's understanding and appreciation of the natural world and the use of resources helps them to recognise where they and their employer impact on the environment.  Natural Capital can facilitate awareness raising sessions and provide training to increase understanding and motivate staff. Past experience has delivered direct improvements in performance bolstering and complementing in house efforts. Our aim is to provide a refreshing approach to training and enhancing communications on environmental and sustainable development matters. We will tailor programmes or sessions to your needs taking them from our catalogue of successful courses. Your choice may be a two-hour management briefing, a one-day training session, a five-day focused training programme, a half-day's operator training session, or a facilitated workshop.
• Plus training in a range of other areas including
  • EIA Training
  • Environmental Management Systems Training
  • Environmental Auditor Training
  • Environmental Compliance Training
  • Sustainability Training

Natural Capital has been involved in:

• Designing and delivering training courses focusing on environmental and sustainability awareness raising for local authorities and public agencies.
• Designing and delivering training courses focusing on environmental and sustainability awareness raising for multi-national companies and small businesses.
• Designing and delivering courses and workshops covering sustainability issues, Local Agenda 21 and Community Planning for local authorities.
• Designing and delivering a range of training courses for businesses that cover topics such as Environmental Management Systems, Environmental Auditing, Life Cycle Assessment and Good Environmental Management Practices.
• The roll out of the “Greening Government” Agenda for the Scottish Executive that has involved working with over 25 public agencies to incorporate environmental management and sustainability issues into the operation of their organisation. In most cases this has involved staff training and development.

Key projects:

• The Scottish Executive for the period 1998 – 2005 to provide training for the Environmental Guardian network that included environmental awareness, good management practices and auditing;
• CONOCO at the Humberside refinery from 1998 and on-going providing training for environmental representatives to cover management systems, legislation, good practice, auditing and sustainability issues;
• Unilever for the period 1994 – 2001 to provide training to the Foods Executive on management systems, good practice, legislation, global issues, sustainability issues, auditing and reporting; courses were run regularly in the Netherlands but also in the USA, Australia, Singapore and throughout Europe;
• Several UK manufacturing companies for the period 1998 – 2001 during the development and implementation of their ISO 14001 systems providing awareness training, ISO 14001 specific training and auditing;