Nurturing human resources of the ecologically-minded：Practical training in environmental internal audits on ecological campuses

Ecological minds nurtured by performing internal audits

Actual experience of ISO 14001 internal audits are included in the curricula (environmental internal audit practice, 2 credits) to grow students’ ecological minds. Performing internal audits is the most affective training method to help the students understand the principle of ISO 14001, characterized by the PDCA cycle of continuous improvement.

A total of more than 100 students are trained as internal auditors

1200 internal auditors over the five campuses

Ecological minds nurtured by performing internal audits

Student auditor(right) and audittee professor(left)

Audit members consist of two or three internal auditors with two to four student auditors and mutual auditors from external organizations.