Elements and Performance Criteria
- Review existing site and/or locality information
- Confirm the scope of the proposed project activity or process and details of the site and/or locality
- Identify relevant legislative, regulatory and/or planning requirements
- Access and interpret available, relevant information about the site and/or locality
- Summarise existing data and relate it to legislative, planning or other statutory requirements
- Identify relevant environmental indicators for site and/or locality
- Determine which environmental indicators and/or statutory environmental quality concentration limits are relevant to the proposed project activity, process and/or requirements of the site/locality
- Identify relevant core environmental indicators and collect and collate data
- Identify relevant statutory environmental quality concentration limits and collect and collate data
- Identify additional site/locality/project specific environmental indicators and collect and collate data, if available
- Identify gaps in available data and refer to supervisor for further action
- Analyse data to establish site condition
- Ensure compatibility of data sets and seek advice, as necessary
- Compare compatible data with core environmental indicators, established standards, regulatory limits, and statutory environmental quality concentration limits or similar
- Apply relevant environmental chemistry and biodiversity concepts and principles to estimate the ‘environmental health’ of the site/locality
- Identify significant trends in environmental data and correlations and differences with relevant indicators
- Make an assessment of site condition
- Report findings