Environmental Awareness
Maintaining a healthy environment is essential for a healthy life. In an environmentally aware organization, understanding how your job impacts the environment is crucial. This environmental awareness course provides foundational knowledge of basic environmental regulations and emphasizes the importance of being a responsible environmental steward. The course covers essential topics such as resource conservation, waste reduction, proper waste disposal methods, and preparation for environmental incidents.
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Learning Objectives
- Define pollution and its various types
- List and describe core principles of environmental stewardship, including pollution prevention, resource conservation, and waste management
- Describe actionable steps to be an effective environmental steward on a daily basis
Specs
| Course Level | Intermediate |
| Languages | English |
| Compatibility | Audio, Video |
| Based on: | Industry Standards and Best Practices |
Key Questions
Some regulations, enforced by various government agencies, govern activities that consume or contaminate water, air emissions, the use of toxic chemicals and substances, such as solvents, pesticides, mercury, and lead, among others. These regulations are crucial for ensuring environmental compliance and maintaining a safe working environment.
What are some of the core principles of environmental stewardship?Core principles of environmental stewardship include pollution prevention, resource conservation, chemical and waste management, and strategies for accidental release, spill response, and prevention. These principles are essential for creating an environmentally aware organization.
What is pollution?Pollution is the contamination of the environment by substances that harm plants, animals, people, or natural resources. Understanding pollution is critical for effective environmental safety training.
What is pollution prevention?Pollution prevention involves practices that reduce or eliminate pollution at its source. This approach, also known as source reduction, helps minimize the impact of pollutants and contributes to a more sustainable environment.
What is resource conservation?Resource conservation involves using the earth’s resources wisely to ensure that we benefit from them now and in the future. This includes managing both renewable resources, like trees and plants, and nonrenewable resources, such as oil and natural gas, responsibly.
Sample Video Transcript
Pollution is the contamination of the environment by substances that harm plants, animals, people, or natural resources. Most people are familiar with the three major forms of pollution: air, water, and land. Polluting these natural resources has both local and global impacts. For example, air emissions from vehicles, power plants, and factories cause local air pollution such as smog but also contribute to changing climate. Water is essential for all life, so water pollution is a serious problem. Pollution can contaminate drinking water, harm aquatic life, and limit the use of water for recreation, transportation, and other activities. The impact of noise, light, heat, and visual pollution on surrounding neighborhoods should also be considered.
Additional Resources
- OSHA Environmental Service Workers and Employers – https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/control-prevention/environmental-services
- OSHA Sustainability in the Workplace – https://www.osha.gov/sustainability/
- EPA Pollution Prevention (P2) – https://www.epa.gov/p2
- EPA Environmental Topics – https://www.epa.gov/environmental-topics
- The Environmental Defense Fund – https://www.edf.org/
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