The BSI Training Academy can teach you the essential knowledge and skills an internal auditor needs, which include the meanings and intention of certification criteria and associated theories, methodologies, techniques or tools.

An effective ESMS (Event Sustainability Management System) audit is essential for addressing customer challenges and unlocking significant benefits. This course provides a robust framework for ensuring sustainability management practices into every stage of an event’s lifecycle.

Internal auditing of an ESMS will help to achieve a number of key benefits, including:

 

• Assessing social risks and opportunities associated with events.
• Addressing human rights and governance considerations.
• Embedding core values of sustainable development into event planning.
• Evaluating economic impacts and promoting environmental protection and efficiencies.
• Improving sustainability across venues, contractors, accommodation providers, and outsourced processes.

 

You’ll grasp the key principles and practices of effective ESMS audits in accordance with ISO 20121 and ISO 19011 “Guidelines for auditing management systems”. Using a step-by-step approach, you’ll be guided through the internal audit process from initiation to follow-up. During this one day course you’ll gain the knowledge and skills required to undertake a successful event sustainability management system internal audit Enhance your auditing expertise in alignment with ISO 20121, the globally recognized standard for event sustainability management, and advance your ability to deliver actionable insights for more sustainable and impactful events.

Course Aim

To provide guidance and practical experience in planning, executing, reporting and audit follow-up of an internal audit, when monitoring the effectiveness and conformity of an Event Sustainability Management System against ISO 20121

How will I benefit?

This course will help you:

• Recognize areas your Certification Body (CB) will be generally looking for to comply with generic internal auditing requirements in management system standards. This will include the meanings and intention of certification criteria and associated theories, methodologies, techniques or tools
• Prepare, conduct and follow-up on ISO 20121 audit activities
• Identify and apply the benefits and requirements of an ISO 20121 audit
• Gain the skills to assess an organization’s capability to manage its ESMS
• Write factual audit reports

What will I learn?

You will learn to explain:

• The application of guidelines of management system auditing according to ISO 19011 in conjunction with the application of these guidelines to auditing against ISO 20121

You will have the skills to:

• Initiate the audit
• Prepare audit activities
• Conduct audit activities
• Prepare and distribute the audit report
• Complete the audit

Audit follow-up   

Who should attend?

Anyone with the need to conduct an internal audit of an organization’s ISO 20121 ESMS.

Duration

One day

How will I learn?

Our high impact accelerated learning approach increases learning by improving knowledge retention and skill application. This course is activity-based, resulting in a deeper understanding of the material and a greater impact on job performance.

What will I gain?

On completion, you’ll be awarded an internationally recognized BSI Training Academy certificate.

Prerequisites

Please note that this course is aimed at personnel who already have knowledge and understanding of ISO 20121:2024 event sustainability management systems, and knowledge of management system auditing principles and practice, as outlined in ISO 19011:2018.

Delegates are expected to have the following prior knowledge:

1. Management systems

The Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) cycle

The core elements of a management system and the interrelationship between top management responsibility, policy, objectives, planning, implementation, measurement, review, and continual improvement

1. The Harmonized structure

The Harmonized approach

1. Event sustainability management – covering social, economic and environmental impacts.

The intended outcomes of an event sustainability management system:

Enhancement of event sustainability performance

Fulfilment of compliance obligations

Achievement of event sustainability objectives

1. d) ISO 20121

Knowledge of the requirements of ISO 20121:2024 and the commonly used event sustainability management terms and definitions, as given in ISO 20121:2024

1. e) ISO 19011

Knowledge of the areas your Certification Body (CB) will be generally looking for to comply with generic internal auditing requirements in Management System Standards. This will include the meanings and intention of certification criteria and associated theories, methodologies, techniques or tools.

Related training

ISO 20121:2024 Event Sustainability Management Requirements Training Course

Fundamentals of Auditing (ISO 19011:2018) Training Course