HSE Lean Academy
Environmental Sustainability Skills for Healthcare Managers
The Environmental Sustainability Skills for Healthcare Managers aims to provide supervisors and managers with a strategic and operational overview of environmental sustainability as it affects healthcare.
The programme covers the understanding of the strategic opportunities and constraints that environmental sustainability presents organisations; the importance of resource efficiency; the impact of environmental sustainability across the value chains; the impacts of pollution, prevention, control and environmental legislation in organisations; and how employees support environmental sustainability.
Programme Benefits

Enhanced Decision-Making
Managers will gain the knowledge to make informed decisions that align with sustainability principles, reducing environmental impacts while improving efficiency

Strategic Integration
Participants will learn how to integrate sustainability into their business strategies, helping companies meet regulatory requirements and achieve long-term environmental goals
Improved Stakeholder Engagement
The programme equips managers with the skills to communicate sustainability efforts effectively, fostering stronger relationships

Boosted Competitiveness
By adopting sustainable practices, organisations can improve their reputation, reduce costs, and gain a competitive edge
The Learning Experience
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the main environmental and economic risks and opportunities.
- Understand compliance obligations and business drivers for change.
- Knowledge of the main potential impacts on environment and sustainability.
- Understand how to improve environmental performance.
- Evaluate drivers for change and barriers.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of baseline data to monitor and improve performance.
- Apply knowledge of environmental sustainability across the value chain.
- Demonstrate the importance of implementing resource efficiency.
- Demonstrate how employees can improve environmental performance
Benefits
The assessment consists of an online 20 question multiple-choice test and Learners must achieve 70% to pass.

Who is this Programme for?
The Environmental Sustainability Skills for Healthcare Managers is ideally suited for supervisors and managers across all sectors and has no formal entry requirements.