Training Your Personnel: Level 4


Unit 2 - Introduction

2.6 Quick Quiz

For each question you can choose more than one answer if you feel it is correct.

Question 1.

Why is environmental training important?

a) Helps to integrate environmental management into everyday working practices.

 

b) Enables employees to carry out their work in a way that minimises significant environmental impacts.

 

c) Communicate the environmental performance of the company to the whole workforce.

 

 

Question 2.

Which of the following elements would have to be in place to ensure successful certification to the EMS standard ISO 14001?

a) Company environmental newsletter.

 

b) Training plan.

 

c) Procedure for training.

 

 

Question 3.

What should the environmental training plan/programme identify?

a) Knowledge, awareness and skills gap.

 

b) Information, comprehension and questions.

 

c) Skills, competence and qualifications.

 

 

Question 4.

Under ISO 14001, on what basis should employees having a significant effect on the environment be competent?

a) Education, training or experience.

 

b) Education, training and experience.

 

c) Education, training and/or experience.

 

 

Question 5.

Which managers must be committed to the environmental training programme to ensure it is implemented effectively?

a) Quality Manager.

 

b) Senior Management.

 

c) Environmental Manager.

 

d) Managing Director.

 

e) All the above.

 

 

Question 6.

Which of the following methods could a company use to disseminate environmental performance information?

a) Newsletter.

 

b) Environmental Notice Board.

 

c) Briefings by the Environmental Manager.

 

d) Bulletins in Pay Packets.

 

 

Question 7.

Which employees should receive environmental awareness training?

a) Production personnel.

 

b) Contractors employed by the company.

 

c) Office and administration staff.

 

d) All personnel on site.

 

 

Question 8.

Can the environmental training procedure be combined with the existing training procedure under the company s quality management system?

a) Yes.

 

b) No.

 

TOTAL SCORE

 


Answers

1) a, b, c.

2) a, b.

3) a.

4) c.

5) c.

6) a, b, c, d.

7) d.

8) a.

 

Results

Between 10 and 14, Go on to the next section.

Between 5 and 9, Redo the questions you got wrong.

Between 0 and 4, Read the above unit again, and redo the quiz.



Exercise
Unit 2 is about raising awareness. Before you start the unit, it would be useful to assess the general environmental awareness of all employees on your site. Use the following questionnaire to undertake the assessment. The completed questionnaires will indicate the areas you need to concentrate your general environmental awareness training programme on.