Subject area 01

Environmental management

Understand responsibilities, priorities and the relationship between operations and the environment.

Start with the guidance

Read the foundations, then follow the connections to related environmental decisions.

Foundation

A practical explanation of how organisations understand their environmental effects, manage responsibilities and improve performance.

Reviewed 16 October 2026

Bring environmental decisions, responsibilities and evidence into everyday work.

Connect activities and pressures to the changes they can cause in the environment.

Prevent releases at source and understand pathways through air, water and land.

Follow materials, energy and waste through their life cycles.