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Sustainable and Green Laboratories (LEAF) Course & Certification
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Sustainable and Green Laboratories (LEAF) provides a practical and comprehensive overview of the principles, practices, and assessment criteria required to improve sustainability and environmental performance in laboratory environments.
This Sustainable and Green Laboratories (LEAF) course provides in-depth knowledge of sustainable laboratory practices, energy and water efficiency, waste reduction and recycling, sustainable procurement, resource conservation, equipment efficiency, chemical management, and environmentally responsible laboratory operations. The course also covers the practical application of the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF), including sustainability assessments, energy consumption reduction, water conservation, waste minimisation, sustainable equipment use, environmental impact reduction, evidence collection, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement. Learners will develop the practical knowledge required to identify opportunities for improving laboratory sustainability, implement resource-efficient practices, reduce environmental impact, evaluate sustainability performance, and support greener laboratory operations. Upon successful completion, learners receive a certificate demonstrating their understanding of sustainable laboratory principles and LEAF-related practices.
Who Should Enrol?
- Laboratory and Sustainability Professionals
- Laboratory Managers and Supervisors
- Researchers and Laboratory Scientists
- Environmental and Sustainability Officers
- Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Healthcare, and Research Laboratory Professionals
- Laboratory Health & Safety Professionals
- Quality Assurance and Laboratory Compliance Professionals
- Facilities and Engineering Personnel
- Procurement and Resource Management Professionals
- Academic and University Laboratory Professionals
- Professionals involved in laboratory waste management and environmental performance
- Professionals seeking practical knowledge of sustainable laboratories and LEAF principles
What you will learn
Build knowledge of sustainable laboratory principles, LEAF assessment criteria, energy and water efficiency, resource conservation, waste reduction, and the environmental impact of laboratory activities.
Learn practical approaches to improving laboratory sustainability, including energy-efficient equipment use, sustainable procurement, water conservation, waste segregation, recycling, and reducing single-use plastics.
Develop practical skills in sustainable chemical management, responsible resource use, equipment sharing, waste minimisation, and implementing environmentally responsible laboratory practices.
Understand LEAF assessment requirements, sustainability monitoring, evidence collection, environmental performance indicators, continuous improvement, and strategies for maintaining greener and more resource-efficient laboratory operations.
Course Syllabus
- What LEAF is, in the words of its own scheme owner
- Accreditation, certification, and what UKAS actually does
- Three steps on the verification spectrum, not two
- Three award levels, and the level name that is not portable
- The rest of the landscape, and what each thing assesses
- Who can obtain a licence, and who cannot
- Reading a scheme's claims about itself
- Three layers: legal duty, funder condition, voluntary commitment
- The four nations, one at a time
- Company law and sector guidance: SECR and SCEF
- The NHS chain, from the Act to the bench
- The funders: where the requirement has a level and a date
- Reading a requirement, whoever sent it to you
- Metered, modelled, calculated, stated
- Energy: five buildings in 2011, and what exists now
- Cold storage: two questions, two evidence bases
- Fume cupboards: an orphan traced home
- Plastics: a measurement, and an extrapolation
- How a soft number hardens, and what the evidence says
- Joining, submitting, and being verified
- Building an evidence pack that stands on its own
- Contamination control sets the constraint
- What actually changes behaviour
- What an award lets you claim, and what it does not
- The review cadence: what to re-read, and when
- The constructed pack: five corrections, all still available
- Restated at the close: what this course argued
- A description that three later documents inherited
- One bar set for three funders who do not ask the same thing
- A savings case built on figures that will not carry it
- A pack that cannot support the claim drafted from it
- The decisions in order, and each one constrains the next
- Four questions that would have caught all four failures
- What this course declined to claim, and why it declined
- The six items most likely to have moved since verification
- Five Things to Take From This Course
- 📘 Bonus: Sustainable and Green Laboratories (LEAF) eBook (Free with purchase)
Course Benefits
eBook
Download the Sustainable and Green Laboratories (LEAF) course eBook for easy access and reference.
CPD Points
Earn Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points to support your learning in sustainable and green laboratory practices.
Certification
Receive a personal certificate to show your subject knowledge on course completion.
Affordable
Get excellent value with cost-effective pricing, with group discounts available for larger purchases.
Flexibility
Complete the course online at your own pace and convenience, saving time while learning comfortably.
Keep Up to Date
Stay up to date with LEAF requirements, sustainable laboratory practices, environmental guidance, and green laboratory standards.
Learn from Industry Experts
Learn from experienced professionals through practical, industry-focused content covering LEAF, sustainable laboratory practices, resource efficiency, waste reduction, and environmental sustainability.
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