Overview

Gain the knowledge and hands-on experience to conduct effective internal audits for both ISO 14001:2026 and ISO 45001:2018 in one comprehensive, four-day course. This live-online training is recognized by Exemplar Global and provides dual certification to help you meet your organization’s internal auditing needs for environmental and occupational health & safety management systems.

You’ll learn how to interpret ISO 14001 requirements, evaluate environmental impacts, and audit your Environmental Management System (EMS) effectively. The course also introduces ISO 45001, so you can confidently assess workplace safety systems as part of your internal audit program.

With guided instruction, role play exercises, and step-by-step auditing tools, you’ll practice real-world skills like planning audits, conducting interviews, identifying nonconformities, and writing reports. Training aligns with ISO 19011 auditing guidelines and includes competency-based assessments to ensure you’re ready for the job.

Whether you’re a project team member, compliance professional, or just getting started with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, this course equips you to contribute to both environmental performance and occupational health & safety success.

What’s New in ISO 14001:2026

ISO 14001:2026 (fourth edition, April 2026) is a technical revision of the 2015 edition. The Plan-Do-Check-Act framework and the ten-clause harmonized structure are unchanged. This course covers the substantive 2026 updates, including:

• New Clause 6.3 — Planning of Changes. A formal requirement to plan changes to the EMS so that intended outcomes are still achieved. In 2015 this was implied; in 2026 it is its own auditable sub-clause.
• Expanded environmental conditions. Climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity, and ecosystem health are now named explicitly throughout the standard — most visibly in Clause 4.1.
• Risks & Opportunities promoted to its own sub-clause (6.1.4). What was bundled inside 6.1.1 in 2015 is now a dedicated sub-clause with its own documented-information requirement.
• Externally provided processes, products, or services. The 2015 term “outsource” has been removed entirely and replaced with this broader phrasing in Clause 8.1.
• Updated documented-information vocabulary. “Maintain documented information” is replaced by “shall be available as documented information”, and “retain documented information as evidence of” becomes “documented information shall be available as evidence of”.
• Compliance obligations vocabulary. “Fulfil compliance obligations” is now “meet compliance obligations” throughout the standard.
• Harmonized Structure (HS). The term “high level structure” is replaced by “harmonized structure” — same Annex SL framework, updated label.
• Clause 10 reordering. Continual Improvement (10.1) now precedes Nonconformity and Corrective Action (10.2). The old 10.1 General and 10.3 are absorbed into 10.1.

Who Should Attend

• Environmental Managers
• Health & Safety Managers
• EHS Coordinators
• Those involved in designing or maintaining an EMS or OHSMS
• Internal Auditors
• EHS Consultants
• Managers who are audited in EMS or OHSMS audits
• Anyone seeking to improve their organization’s environmental and safety performance

Attendees successfully completing the examinations provided in conjunction with this course receive a Certificate of Attainment for these Exemplar Global knowledge competency units:
EM – Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001)
AU – Auditing Management Systems
OH – Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems (ISO 45001)