Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine environment management strategy requirements
- Develop enterprise commitment to environmental management
- Obtain management commitment and formulate enterprise environmental management policy
- Include agreed upon environmental management strategies in enterprise planning, operating systems and review processes
- Develop consultative processes to resolve environmental issues and problems
- Incorporate environmental management roles and responsibilities into job functions, position descriptions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Develop and implement communication and training strategies to inform and support stakeholder commitment
- Prepare environmental management strategy
- Identify enterprise requirements for expert assistance and advice
- Identify and evaluate environmental risks
- Determine requirements of environmental management systems
- Evaluate alternative environmental management strategies and systems for efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability, in accordance with enterprise requirements and regulatory compliance
- Identify opportunities to minimise environmental impact and maximise commercial value of waste or waste treatment by-products
- Calculate resource requirements and include them in enterprise planning processes
- Develop performance criteria for environmental management
- Implement and monitor environmental management strategies and systems
- Negotiate licences, permits, schedules and agreements to address regulatory requirements
- Communicate environment and waste management policies and responsibilities to stakeholders
- Select, develop, implement and integrate environmental and waste management systems into operational systems
- Develop monitoring, reporting and validation procedures
- Prepare corrective action strategies and contingency plans
- Establish verification procedures
- Investigate causes of non-compliance and develop control measures
- Review systems to reflect changes in technology, regulations and operational performance
- Review environmental management policies, strategies and systems
- Establish continuous review and improvement processes, including consultation with stakeholders
- Assess and analyse performance information against specified criteria and standards to identify areas for improvement
- Analyse and include conclusions and recommendations in enterprise planning and improvement processes
- Manage community relations
- Prepare environmental impact statements to address community, environmental and public health concerns and regulatory requirements
- Conduct interactions with environmental authorities and agencies openly, positively and ethically
- Identify and utilise opportunities to promote enterprise as good corporate citizen in relation to environmental management
- Maintain, analyse and report to stakeholders details of enterprise measurement and logging of environmental impacts
- Deal with community complaints promptly, openly and courteously
- Determine environment management strategy requirements
- Develop enterprise commitment to environmental management
- Obtain management commitment and formulate enterprise environmental management policy
- Include agreed upon environmental management strategies in enterprise planning, operating systems and review processes
- Develop consultative processes to resolve environmental issues and problems
- Incorporate environmental management roles and responsibilities into job functions, position descriptions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Develop and implement communication and training strategies to inform and support stakeholder commitment
- Prepare environmental management strategy
- Identify enterprise requirements for expert assistance and advice
- Identify and evaluate environmental risks
- Determine requirements of environmental management systems
- Evaluate alternative environmental management strategies and systems for efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability, in accordance with enterprise requirements and regulatory compliance
- Identify opportunities to minimise environmental impact and maximise commercial value of waste or waste treatment by-products
- Calculate resource requirements and include them in enterprise planning processes
- Develop performance criteria for environmental management
- Implement and monitor environmental management strategies and systems
- Negotiate licences, permits, schedules and agreements to address regulatory requirements
- Communicate environment and waste management policies and responsibilities to stakeholders
- Select, develop, implement and integrate environmental and waste management systems into operational systems
- Develop monitoring, reporting and validation procedures
- Prepare corrective action strategies and contingency plans
- Establish verification procedures
- Investigate causes of non-compliance and develop control measures
- Review systems to reflect changes in technology, regulations and operational performance
- Review environmental management policies, strategies and systems
- Establish continuous review and improvement processes, including consultation with stakeholders
- Assess and analyse performance information against specified criteria and standards to identify areas for improvement
- Analyse and include conclusions and recommendations in enterprise planning and improvement processes
- Manage community relations
- Prepare environmental impact statements to address community, environmental and public health concerns and regulatory requirements
- Conduct interactions with environmental authorities and agencies openly, positively and ethically
- Identify and utilise opportunities to promote enterprise as good corporate citizen in relation to environmental management
- Maintain, analyse and report to stakeholders details of enterprise measurement and logging of environmental impacts
- Deal with community complaints promptly, openly and courteously