ISO14040/44 - LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT - ISO14040/44

COURSE CONTENT & ITINERARY Duration: 2 days

Objective: A comprehensive interpretation of the international standard on Life-cycle-assessment which is an essential knowledge that serves the actual basis of the term ‘environmental aspect’ in ISO14001 EMS. A useful environmental accounting of materials, equipments, products, wastes, etc. from an organizational activity associated with clearer understanding its ‘environmental cost’.

Who should attend? : Top management, EMR, financial, business and accounting personnel, environmental auditors, product developers and designers.

DAY-1

8.30am – 9.00am Registration

9.00am – 10.30am

Ø  The Life-Cycle Assessment – introduction;

Ø  Definition;

Ø  What the ISO has set?

Morning Tea Break: 10.30am – 11.00am

11.00am – 12.30am

Ø  Application and usefulness of LCA;

Ä      In the EMS;

§  Identification and quantification of environmental aspects;

§  The normalized data needs LCA inventory input;

§  LCA input as EMS navigator for EMP, objective and target.

Ä      In Eco-labeling;

§  Product stewardship;

·         Product composition;

·         Market standards;

Lunch 12.30pm – 2.00pm

2.00pm – 3.30pm

Ø  Illustrative overview of a product LCA;

Ä      Defining LCA boundaries/borders/perimeters/loop;

Ä      The first stage boundary;

Ä      The second stage boundary;

Ä      The third stage boundary

Afternoon Tea Break: 3.30pm – 4.00pm

4.00pm – 5.30pm

Ø  Methodology;

Ä      The cradle to grave product LCA chronology;

Ä      Identifying upstream and downstream borders (product tree);

Ä      Defining LCA scope – purpose of the LCA decision;

DAY-2

9.00am – 10.30am

Ä      The inventory data

§  Through data collection;

·         Reports;

¨      Technical;

¨      Financial;

¨      Environmental;

§  Through measurement;

§  Through calculations and assumptions;

Morning Tea Break: 10.30am – 11.00am

11.00am – 12.30am

Ä      Need to sampling and analysis for special cases;

Ø  A case example;

Lunch 12.30pm – 2.00pm

2.00pm – 3.30pm

Ø  Working groups – workshop on-line

Afternoon Tea Break: 3.30pm – 4.00pm

4.00pm – 5.30pm

Ø  Group presentation

Ø  Conclusion

Ø  Discussion;

Ø  Questions and answers;

Ø  Course evaluation.

Note:

In performing this working group, an on-line facility and/or a technical expertise from the organization shall be required to provide relevant inventory data related to the organization’s activities. Example, production throughputs and the materials consumed throughout the desired production time from past records, etc.