Learning Outcomes

Understanding the Types of Environmental Pollutions

Standards for Environmental Conservation

Beginning With ISO 14001

ISO 14001 - Objectives and Scope

Lesson Summary

In this module, you will be introduced to different ISO standards designed for environmental conservation, especially ISO 14001. You will learn to define the concept of an EMS (with regards to ISO 14001), its objectives, and its scope. You will also learn about the ISO 14001 requirements about competence, awareness, resources, and requirements.

Operational Control and Emergency Preparedness Requirements

Internal Audit Process and Audit Planning

The Essential Internal Auditing Activities

This module explains ISO 14001's requirements regarding organizations' operational control, emergency preparedness, performance evaluation, and improvement. It also explains the essentials of internal auditing an organization properly against ISO 14001's requirements.

ISO 14001 Internal Auditing Strategies and Practices - Course assessment

Master the process of ISO 14001 auditing and its responsibilities and techniques with this free online course.

ISO 14001 Internal Auditing Strategies & Practices

Globally, multiple standards have been enacted and implemented to make organizations more aware of the impacts of their activities on the environment. One such standard is ISO 14001, which directs organizations to establish an Environment Management System (EMS). By enrolling in this course, Alison's students will learn about the essential requirements of ISO 14001 in establishing an EMS and auditing organizations against these requirements.

Course Introduction

ISO 14001 Clauses 1 to 5

ISO 14001 Clauses 6 to 10

ISO 14001 is structured around key clauses, including organizational context, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation, and continual improvement. The module covers topics such as environmental policy creation, impact assessments, legal and regulatory compliance, operational controls, and performance monitoring.

Risk Analysis Process

ISO 14001 and Sustainability

The Certification Process

Achieving ISO 14001 certification demonstrates a commitment to sustainability, resource conservation, and pollution prevention, making businesses more attractive to stakeholders and customers. The module covers ISO 14001  key areas such as environmental policy development, risk assessment, legal compliance, and the certification process.

ISO 14001 : 2015 - The Complete Environmental Management Systems EMS – Course Assessment

Learn the provisions of ISO 14001 and the best environmental management systems in this free online course.

ISO 14001 : 2015 - The Complete Environmental Management Systems EMS

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of ISO 14001: Environmental Management Systems (EMS). It covers the principles, requirements, and implementation of ISO 14001, helping organizations improve environmental performance while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the knowledge to develop, implement, and maintain an effective EMS, driving sustainability.

Understanding Business Ethics—Principles and Practice

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)—Concepts, Models, and Impact

Stakeholder Management and Ethical Communication

Embedding Ethics and Responsibility in Organisational Culture

Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility - Assessment

Learn how to integrate ethical principles and social responsibility into business practices in this free online course.

Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Business ethics and social responsibility shape how companies operate, balancing moral decision-making with accountability to society. Today’s consumers value companies that uphold these standards, making ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) critical for long-term success. This course explores how businesses can drive positive change while achieving profitability by adopting ethical practices and CSR initiatives. Enrol now.

Introduction to ISO 14044

Data Collection and Inventory Analysis

Impact Assessment and Interpretation

Application and Compliance

The ISO 14044 module provides an overview of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) guidelines, focusing on goal definition, inventory analysis, impact assessment, and result interpretation. You'll learn key practices for conducting transparent and consistent LCAs, helping you evaluate and improve the environmental impact of products and services.

ISO 14044 - Requirements & Guide on Environmental Lifecycle Assessment - Course Assessment

Master ISO 14044: Free Online Course on Life Cycle Assessment for Accurate Environmental Impact Evaluation.

ISO 14044 - Requirements and Guide on Environmental Lifecycle Assessment

ISO 14044 provides a comprehensive framework for conducting Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) to evaluate the environmental impacts of products and services. It covers essential stages, including goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, impact assessment, and interpretation of results. The standard emphasizes transparency, consistency, and accuracy, ensuring that LCAs are reliable tools for making informed sustainability decisions.

What is Reliability Engineering?

Reliability and Its Role in Improving Equipment Quality

Reliability and Redundancy

This module explains reliability engineering and its importance in ensuring the quality of the products. It also explains the main principles of reliability, along with the methods that ensure a product's reliability. It also looks at the concepts of reliability and redundancy in production management and different types of maintenance as well.

Stress-Strength Analysis and Distribution Curves

Design for Reliability (DfR) and Common Mechanical Failures

HALT/HASS Testing

In this module, you will learn about different graphs, analyses, and testing incorporated in reliability engineering techniques. It also explains the importance of Design for Reliability and common mechanical failures in mechanical products. The module also discusses HALT/HASS testing briefly.

Reliability Engineering (RE) Fundamentals - Enhanced Performance Level - Course Assessment

Learn about reliability engineering, and how it can help build and sustain quality products for manufacturers.

Reliability Engineering Fundamentals - Enhanced Performance Levels

Manufacturers find it very difficult to ensure that only the products with top notch quality make their way to the market. However, one of the various ways they can ensure their products' quality is reliability engineering. Reliability engineering is a set of principles and practices that help them ensure their products' sustainability longer than their anticipated life. This course will help you understand this concept more deeply and robustly.

What is Facilities Management All About?

The Origin and Growth of Facilities Management

Why is FM More Important Than Ever?

The Main Functions of Facilities Management

Facilities management is gaining worldwide recognition as a vital discipline that can support an organisation’s needs and core functions. In this module, you will learn about the origin of FM and understand its scope and importance. You will also explore hard and soft FM services.

Understanding Australian Building Codes and Standards

Government-Prescribed Environmental and Workplace Practices

Unveiling Industry Best Practices and Standards

Core Career Competencies and Successful Career Paths

Prioritising employee health and safety, green practices, and energy efficiency measures make it very important that facilities management strictly comply with prescribed rules and regulations. This module will inform you of relevant laws and industry best standards in Australia.

Effective Operations

Effective Maintenance

Optimising Maintenance Processes

In-House vs Outsourcing FM, Vendor Management

Sustainable Procurement

This module seeks to equip FM professionals with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage operations and maintenance to ensure the physical infrastructure remains in optimal condition. It will also help you develop a proactive and collaborative approach to outsourcing, and engage and manage external service providers.

Occupational Health and Amenities

Mental Health

Dangerous Goods and Hazardous Materials

Regulations and Compliance Obligations

Workplace Safety

Occupational health and safety management is a vital aspect of FM in Australia that ensures the well-being of occupants, employees, contractors, and visitors through compliance with relevant regulations. This module explains how coordinating and maintaining physical assets, infrastructure, and services leads to health and safety management in FM.

Mastering the Art of Connection

Strategies for Effective Communication With Diverse Audiences

Internal Communication - Pivotal Features and Strategies

External Communication Mechanisms

Effective Communication to Address Concerns and Assure Satisfaction

Effective FM communication in Australia embraces internal and external communication with stakeholders. This module explains how strong internal and external communication facilitates collaboration, problem-solving, compliance, and positive relationships, contributing to the success and sustainability of FM operations across Australia.

Diploma in Mastering Facilities Management in Australia - First Course Assessment

This assessment enables you to review your learning to determine your knowledge and understanding of the following modules: Facilities Management: An Overview; Regulations, Core Competencies, Emerging Trends; Operations, Maintenance, and Outsourcing; Occupational Health and Safety Management; Communication Techniques for the Workplace.

Green Building Practices in FM

Energy-Efficiency Initiatives, Retrofits, and Management

Water Conservation Principles and Initiatives

Waste Management

Environmental Sustainability Practices and Certifications

Environmental sustainability is a critical component of Australian FM. This module will help you learn about the various factors that contribute to environmental sustainability while ensuring the efficient and responsible operation of your facility.

Forewarned is Forearmed

Your Role During an Emergency

Key Elements of Effective Emergency Plans

Ensuring Business Continuity in the Face of Disruptions

Comply, Document, and Review

Behind every smoothly running office is an FM team orchestrating a symphony of preparedness and continuity. This module will help you understand your pivotal role in ensuring day-to-day operations can withstand disruptions. Your proactive involvement is essential in coordinating logistics and devising recovery strategies in partial loss scenarios.

Essential Services

Coordination of Office Moves and Relocation

Effective Collaboration and Supervision

People Management and Employee Well-Being

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

Workplace services and people management are integral to Australian FM, offering tailored solutions to optimise functionality and impact. This module teaches you best practices for developing and supporting business management systems or providing integrated FM solutions that connect people, assets, data, and budgets.

Financial Management in FM

Financial Reporting

The Role of Technology in Modern FM

Objectives, Targets, and Performance Indicators

Smart financial management ensures optimal use of resources, while technology integration enhances productivity and competitiveness. Documentation guarantees transparency and compliance. This module will show you how this dynamic trio can form the backbone of your facility’s success, driving strategic decision-making and operational excellence.

Why Include Case Studies

Facilitating Modern Building Management

Transforming Workplace Wellness

Case studies play a crucial role in illustrating the strategic importance of key concepts in any field, and FM is no exception to the rule. This module will attempt to showcase how good FM practices, including customer satisfaction and creating a productive environment, are critical to organisational success.

Second Course Assessment

This assessment enables you to review your learning to determine your knowledge and understanding of the following modules: Environmental Sustainability, Workplace Services and People Management, Financial Management and Technology Integration, and Case Studies.

Diploma in Mastering Facilities Management in Australia - Course Assessment

This free online course covers the tools and services enabling streamlined, sustainable buildings and infrastructure.

Diploma in Mastering Facilities Management in Australia

Individuals who contribute to an organisation’s profits have a better chance of employment and promotion. Do you wish to get a clear insight into superior facilities management, leading to a forty-five per cent reduction in project costs and forty-one per cent lower absenteeism? This free course explores influential contributions to workplace experience, with particular reference to the Australian Facilities Management (FM) landscape.

An Introduction to Green Finance and Ethical Investment

Accounting Disclosure and International Standards for Green Finance

A Route Map for Ethical Investment, Final Thoughts and Exercise

This module will discover the benefits and necessity of incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into investment decisions. You will learn about the institution, accounting disclosure and international standards for green finance. The steps included in ethical investment appraisal will also be explained.

Green Finance and Ethical Investment: Institutions and Standards - Course Assessment

This free online course will help you understand the fundamentals of green finance and ethical investment principles.

Green Finance and Ethical Investment: Institutions and Standards

Perhaps the most important factor causing climate change is finance. Global society and the environment are greatly impacted by the places where individuals and organisations invest their money. Investment management and direction changes are necessary to reduce climate change, save delicate ecosystems, enhance the lives of workers and their families, and enhance the environment. This free online course will help you learn how!

Modern Technical Project Management

Living and Geometric Order

Project Life Cycle and Living Order

Roles of a Project Manager

Lean - Eliminating Waste in Living Order

Agile: Fast Feedback in Living Order

Practical Tips

Learn more about the basic principles and practices involved in technical project management, geometric and living order, and an introduction to Lean and Agile software development.

Strategy in Technical Project Management

Lean and Strategy

Portfolio Management - Aligning Projects with Strategy

Terminating Projects

Learn more about strategies to adopt for effective project execution and portfolio management in the context of technical project management.

Project Initiation and the Project Life Cycle

Project Initiation

Defining Project Success

The Project Charter

Managing Project Scope

Project Context

Learn more about defining the project scope and structure, project success, and project initiation.

The Role of Procurement in Supply Chain Management

Enterprise to Project Procurement

Procurement Relationships

Managing Procurement Waste

Value over Price

From RFP to Contract

Procurement - Domains and Approaches

Forms of Procurement

Communication 101

Learn more about procurement processes in technical project management from procurement relationships, procurement waste, supply chain management, and more.

Teams in a Dynamic World

Behaviors that Build Trust

Team Motivators and Demotivators

Managing Teams and Transitions

Virtual Teams

Core Considerations of Leadership

Learn more about leadership in technical project management from team formation, team management, motivators and demotivators, and more.

A New Planning Approach

The Geometric Order Approach: Push Planning

The Living Order Approach: Pull Planning

Push Planning and Pull Planning

Sustainability and Contingency Plans

Learn more about project planning from the geometric and living order approaches, push and pull planning, sustainability, and contingency plans in this module.

From Planning to Scheduling

Geometric and Living Order - Scheduling Methods

Push - The Critical Path Method (CPM)

Pull: Post-Its, Last Planner, and Agile

Learn more about project scheduling in technical project management.

Diploma in Project Management in Practice - First Assessment

You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.

Risks, Threats, and Issues

Risk Management and Project Success

Risk Reporting

Contingency Planning and Probabilistic Risk Modeling

Ethics and Risk Management

Learn more about managing project risk in technical project management from this module.

Managing Scope for Success

Understanding Budgets and Costs

Target-Value Design

Learn more about managing the value, costs and budgets of projects in technical project management from this module.

Managing Resources in Living Order

Geometric Order Resource Optimization Techniques

Estimating Resource Capacity in Agile

Externalities and the Future

Learn more about managing limited resources in technical project management from this module.

Monitoring for Active Control

Information Overload and Project Dashboards

Informed Intuition

The Illusion of Linearity

Learn more about project monitoring, analytics, and control in technical project management from this module.

Getting the Fundamentals Right

Auditing: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Correcting Course or Shutting Down

Closing out a Project

Learn more about improving project performance using project reviews from this module.

Improve your project management skills for managing complex technical projects with this free online course.

Diploma in Project Management in Practice

This online technical project management course will teach you about practical project management. It covers the fundamental principles and practices in project management including basic concepts such as project selection, initiation and procurement. You will study leadership, planning, scheduling, risks, and costs and budgets. You will also learn about resource allocation, monitoring, and control needed to manage complex technical projects.