Level 1 environmental awareness qualification for the workforce, delivered in-company at your site or as a closed virtual classroom for your team in one day, with an IOSH-issued certificate for every delegate.
A one-day Level 1 environmental awareness qualification for the workforce, delivered in-company across the UK.
We deliver IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities in-company only, in one of two formats. Same syllabus, same assessment, same IOSH certificate.
Our trainer brings the materials and the assessment. You provide the room and the delegates. One day, your site, your sector, no travel for your team.
Live trainer-led session over Microsoft Teams or your preferred platform. Same content, same assessment, same IOSH certificate. Closed to your team only, no mixing with other companies.
IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities is a Level 1 awareness qualification awarded by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). It runs over one day and equips staff at any level with the skills to recognise environmental hazards, understand their organisation's environmental management responsibilities, and act on those duties in their day-to-day role.
Mapped directly to IOSH's stated learning objectives for the qualification.
Identify the environmental hazards present in your day-to-day work: pollution sources, waste streams, emissions, hazardous materials. Distinguish between hazard and environmental risk.
Apply the source-pathway-receptor model to environmental risk. Trace how a pollutant moves from its source through the environment to a receptor, and where controls work best.
Understand how your organisation's environmental risk assessments are built. Spot the controls that protect air, water, land and biodiversity. Know what to do if a control fails.
Understand your personal responsibilities under your organisation's Environmental Management System (EMS). Know when to escalate. Know how to report an environmental incident.
Recognise the key parts of an EMS in your workplace: environmental policy, objectives, training records, monitoring, audit. Understand how ISO 14001 fits in.
Apply environmental best practice across waste management, fuel storage, hazardous materials handling, emissions to air and water, and incident response. Know your role in your organisation's sustainability work.
Matches IOSH's official four-session structure for the qualification.
Definition of "environment". Key environmental issues affecting UK business: climate, biodiversity, resource use, pollution. Definitions of hazard, risk and harm. Why environmental compliance matters commercially.
What is pollution? Sources, receptors, pathways. Environmental consequences of typical working practices. Environmental risk assessment principles. Effective control mechanisms (elimination, substitution, engineering, administrative, PPE) applied to environmental risk.
What is an EMS? Benefits of an EMS to your organisation. EMS structure and models (ISO 14001 and others). Identifying which EMS elements your company already has. Roles and responsibilities, yours, your manager's, your environmental officer's.
Option A: Organisation-specific module, compiled with your sector and operations in mind, walking through environmental issues unique to your site, sector and supply chain. This is the option most KeyOstas clients choose.
Option B: Environmental best practice, a generic operational module covering waste management, fuel storage and use, hazardous materials, emissions to air and water, and environmental incidents.
Two head-to-head comparisons to help you choose the right environmental course for each part of your workforce.
Workforce induction and supply-chain compliance. Front-line workers across all staff levels.
One day, awareness-grade. Recognise environmental hazards and respond. Sector-specific module included.
Short written test plus practical exercise, 60% combined pass mark, taken on the day.
Progress to IOSH Managing Environmental Responsibilities or NEBOSH Environmental Certificate.
Line management and EMS responsibility. Managers and supervisors who own environmental processes.
Typically longer modular delivery. Lead, monitor and improve environmental performance.
Written test plus management application exercise on the day.
Bridges to NEBOSH Environmental Certificate or IEMA Practitioner for career-track leads.
Workforce-wide environmental awareness across all staff. Awarded by IOSH.
One day, awareness-grade. Recognise and respond to environmental hazards at work.
Internal IOSH-marked test plus practical exercise, taken at end of course day.
Step-up route into management or career-track environmental qualifications.
Career-track environmental practitioners or designated environmental leads. Awarded by NEBOSH.
Around 10 days of study, Ofqual-regulated Level 3 qualification.
Formal NEBOSH exam plus practical assessment, externally marked.
Progress to IEMA Practitioner or full environmental professional credentials.
If you are rolling out environmental training across a workforce, you typically want IOSH WER for the broad team and NEBOSH Environmental Cert for one or two designated leads.
After IOSH WER, learners often progress to:
At the close of the course day, every delegate completes a combined assessment.
Around 20 multi-format questions covering definitions, EMS recognition, source, receptor and pathway, and environmental incident response.
Typically a sector-relevant scenario: spotting environmental hazards in a workplace photo, sequencing an incident response, or applying EMS principles to a worked example.
Delivering IOSH-approved and NEBOSH-accredited training across the UK since 1984. One of the longest-standing safety and environmental training providers in the country.
First-time pass rate on KeyOstas IOSH courses. Supported by trainer coaching, exam-prep walk-throughs and structured practical-exercise prep on every cohort.
Organisations globally have used IOSH training to build environmental and safety competence in their workforce.
KeyOstas holds full IOSH-approved provider status. Our trainers, materials and assessment processes are independently audited by IOSH each year. Not every provider holds that status; some run unaccredited "IOSH-style" courses without the official certificate.
We have built our IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities delivery around the workforce: front-line workers, mixed reading levels, shift cohorts, and real workplace environmental scenarios. The course is jargon-light, scenario-heavy, and runs in one day with everyone certified at the end of it.
A 100% first-time pass rate across our IOSH courses. We invest in trainer coaching, worked exam examples and structured environmental-scenario practice on every cohort.
Most providers run a generic best-practice module. We offer a sector-specific module as standard; we build the case studies, hazards and EMS examples around your operations. Your delegates leave with content they can apply to their site on Monday.
On-site delivery anywhere in the UK from our Midlands head office (Southam, CV47 0FS). Trainer network covers Scotland, North East, North West, Yorkshire, East and West Midlands, South West, South East, London and Wales.
On-site delivery across England, Scotland and Wales, from our Midlands head office.
Southam, Birmingham, Leicester, Coventry, Northampton
London, Reading, Brighton, Guildford
Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Plymouth
Cambridge, Norwich, Ipswich, Chelmsford
Leeds, Sheffield, York, Hull
Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Lancaster
Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesbrough
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Swansea
Send the enquiry form with delegate numbers, your site postcode and your preferred week.
Tailored to your sector, group size and travel. Includes IOSH registration and certificates.
One day on-site (or virtual), full course delivered, assessments marked, IOSH-issued certificates sent within 4 to 6 weeks.
IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities is a Level 1 environmental awareness qualification awarded by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. It runs over one day and equips staff at any level with the skills to recognise environmental hazards, understand their organisation's environmental responsibilities, and act on those duties in their day-to-day role.
It is designed for the wider workforce: front-line workers, supervisors, and any non-managerial staff who need a recognised environmental awareness qualification. It works across every UK sector. It is not aimed at environmental managers (that is IOSH Managing Environmental Responsibilities) or career environmental practitioners (that is the NEBOSH Environmental Certificate or IEMA Foundation).
One day. Around 6 hours of trainer-led content plus the assessment at the end. KeyOstas delivers it in-company at your premises or as a closed virtual classroom over Microsoft Teams.
A combined assessment taken at the close of the course day: a short written test of around 20 multi-format questions plus a practical exercise (typically a sector-relevant scenario). Pass mark 60% combined. IOSH-approved markers handle the marking, and KeyOstas handles IOSH registration for every delegate.
Level 1, an awareness-level qualification. It is not regulated by Ofqual in the same way as a NEBOSH or IEMA qualification, but it is internationally recognised by UK employers and increasingly required for supply-chain compliance with ISO 14001-certified clients.
No formal entry requirements. You do not need prior qualifications or environmental experience. A working standard of English helps with the written assessment; IOSH recommends Functional Skills Level 1 or equivalent.
We deliver IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities in-company only, and price on application. The cost depends on delegate numbers, site location and any travel or accommodation requirements. Get in touch with delegate numbers and your site postcode for a tailored quote. All prices include IOSH registration, the assessment and the certificate.
No, the IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities certificate has no expiry date. IOSH recommends a refresh every 3 years to stay current with regulatory changes and best practice. KeyOstas can run repeat cohorts on the same site for new starters or refresher groups.
No public open cohorts. We deliver IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities as a private in-company course, either on-site at your premises, or as a closed virtual classroom for your team over Microsoft Teams or your preferred platform. Same syllabus, same assessment, same IOSH certificate in both formats.
Different audiences. IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities is for the wider workforce: front-line employees and induction-level awareness. IOSH Managing Environmental Responsibilities is for line managers and supervisors with EMS responsibility. If you manage people or own an EMS process, you want Managing. If you are being trained as part of a workforce, you want Working.
The IOSH course is a 1-day Level 1 awareness qualification. The NEBOSH Environmental Certificate is a Level 3 Ofqual-regulated qualification with around 10 days of study and formal exams. IOSH WER is for workforce-wide environmental competence. NEBOSH Environmental Cert is for career-track environmental practitioners or designated environmental leads.
Up to 16 delegates per cohort with no formal minimum. Beyond 16 we would split the day into two cohorts or run consecutive days to keep the learning quality high. Talk to us about larger workforces and multi-site rollouts.
IOSH allows resits. KeyOstas coordinates resits with the delegate at no extra tuition cost; IOSH may charge a small re-marking fee depending on the circumstances. In practice the IOSH paper is short and well-scaffolded by the day's training, so resits are rare. Our pass rate on IOSH courses sits at 100%.
One day. Your site or virtual classroom. Every delegate IOSH-certified at the end of it. IOSH-approved trainers with real UK industry experience. 100% pass rate on IOSH courses.
This page is checked annually against the current IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities syllabus and assessment specification published at iosh.com.
Last reviewed: May 2026, checked against the IOSH Working with Environmental Responsibilities syllabus and pricing for current courses.
