Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend / In 2000 the German Institute on Professional and Social Hygiene of Labor (IAS) began cooperating with Azerbaijan's Azersu JSC on creation of ecological management in the JSC's enterprises. Two enterprises of Azersu (Jeyranbatan clean-up station and Sukanal Scientific and Projection Institute) received the international certificate ISO-14001.
IAS returned to Azerbaijan with a new project on management training and ecological auditors in this sphere. The Head of the Press and Public Relations Department of Azersu, Akshin Rustamov, said on 21 September that the project is aimed at training managers/auditors for protecting the environment in Azerbaijan, making the activities of the enterprises more effective through preparing new experts.
The training program envisages:
- Raising the qualification of the ecological auditors in environmental protection;
- selecting enterprises for establishing ecological management systems;
- establishing a network schedule;
- cooperation between State and private ecological organizations; and
- transferring the experience gained in Georgia.
The first seminar will take place at Azersu together with the German specialists between 26 September and 5 October 2008. The seminar aims to raise the qualifications of Azerbaijani and Georgian experts in ecological management.