Duty of Care
Understand your legal responsibilities and ensure compliant waste handling
Waste Duty of Care is a fundamental legal requirement that applies to everyone involved in the production, handling, transport, and management of waste. Whether you are a producer, carrier, or waste management operator, understanding your responsibilities is essential to ensuring waste is managed safely, legally, and responsibly.
This practical virtual training programme explores the Duty of Care Code of Practice, helping you understand what compliance looks like in practice and how it applies across the waste chain. You’ll also gain valuable insight into best practice approaches used across the sector, supported by examples from experienced practitioners and tutors.
Designed to be practical and relevant, this course will help you strengthen compliance, reduce risk, and improve your organisation’s approach to waste management responsibilities.
Course Details
Format: Online
Duration: 7.5 hours
Entry requirements: None
About this course
Understanding and applying Duty of Care correctly is essential to safe, legal, and responsible waste management. Build the confidence to meet your obligations, improve compliance, and support best practice across your organisation.
Understand the Duty of Care framework
Develop a clear understanding of why Duty of Care exists and the legal responsibilities it places on all parties involved in waste management.
The role of the waste producer
Explore why waste producers play a critical role in ensuring compliant and responsible waste handling.
Apply legislation in practice
Gain confidence in interpreting current legal requirements and understanding what they mean for your day-to-day operations.
Link Duty of Care with wider controls
Understand how Duty of Care obligations interact with other regulatory and operational controls within waste management.
Complete waste transfer documentation
Learn how to correctly complete Waste Transfer Notes and related waste information documentation.
Use information sources and audits
Become familiar with key information sources, including public registers, and understand how auditing supports compliance and accountability.
Professional development
Receive a certificate of completion and contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
This course is suitable for anyone involved in the handling, management, transportation, or regulation of resources and waste.
It is particularly relevant for:
- Waste producers across all sectors
- Waste carriers and logistics providers
- Waste management and treatment operators
- Local authority staff involved in waste services or enforcement
- Environmental compliance and sustainability professionals
- Anyone responsible for ensuring organisational compliance with waste Duty of Care requirements
No prior knowledge is required, making this an accessible introduction to Duty of Care responsibilities.
Course Structure
This course is made up of a combination of a self-guided learning module and virtual instructor-led training.
This session covers:
- Why do we have a Duty of Care for waste?
- The five Duty of Care obligations
- Waste legislation: how it all fits together
- The Duty of Care Code of Practice
This session covers:
- Using WM3 to choose List of Waste codes
- The waste hierarchy
- Waste codes exercise
This session covers:
- Waste codes exercise review
- Putting it into practice
- Duty of Care auditing
- Enforcement
Upcoming courses
View the timings for virtual sessions below.
- Session 1 - 23rd September - 09:30-12:30
- Session 2 - 30th September - 09:30-12:30
- Session 1 - 6th October - 09:30-12:30
- Session 2 - 8th October - 09:30-12:30
- Session 1 - 4th December - 09:30-12:30
- Session 2 - 11th December - 09:30-12:30
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Active CIWM members are eligible for a 20% discount on this course. Your discount will be applied automatically at checkout when you are logged in and book using your CIWM member details.
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