Assessor Resource
MSS024003A
Apply an understanding of environmental principles to a site
Assessment tool
Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024
This unit of competency is applicable to environmental technicians in a range of industry sectors, such as:
environmental services (e.g. sampling and monitoring of air quality, water, soil and noise)
environmental compliance, auditing and inspection
groundwater, clean water (e.g. catchments, supply and environmental flows)
water treatment, storm and wastewater management
solid and hazardous waste management, and site remediation
management of contaminated sites
geotechnical services and civil engineering
natural resource management.
This unit of competency covers the ability to ‘read the landscape’ in terms of the physical and biological components of the environment and the ecological linkages in operation at a site. Personnel are required to apply basic principles of geomorphology, hydrology and ecology in a systematic, scientific appraisal of site condition. This requires sufficient knowledge of chemistry, physics, geology and biology to support a scientific approach to field ecology.
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