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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Research environmental strategies
   • Assess environmental and aesthetic values of workplace location
   • Assess strategies for their effectiveness in reducing environmental impacts on the workplace, including ongoing reduction of waste, energy use, water efficiency and adverse impacts with wildlife and other resource users and uses
   • Obtain professional assistance appropriate to complexity of task and financial risk involved, and consult appropriate bodies
   • Research mechanisation or automation of process or activity, including use of specialised contract services, in line with workplace practices
2. Prepare environmental management plan
   • Design environmental management plan based on risk identification and mitigation procedures
   • Incorporate requirements of business plan, production plan and other planning parameters in the environmental management plan, ensuring it is achievable with workplace resources and budget
   • Identify and allocate financial and other resources for environmental management within workplace
   • Ensure environmental management strategies comply with legislative requirements and are incorporated into risk mitigation procedures
   • Identify and address any community concerns in the development of strategies
   • Develop and document water quality and ongoing environmental monitoring plans, and communicate areas of responsibility to staff
   • Incorporate newly available technologies into environmental management strategies if practicable and feasible
3. Establish a waste management system
   • Identify wastes and outputs for inclusion in waste water management system
   • Collect, treat and store waste water and re-use as part of management system
   • Obtain materials and consumables used by workplace, from recycled or re-useable materials in quantities that result in packaging and waste reduction
   • Use composting, shredding, re-using and recycling according to workplace procedures
   • Identify waste disposal contractors, negotiate terms and award business according to environmental management plan
   • Monitor performance of contract and take action where variance is identified
4. Conserve energy resources
   • Manage and operate machinery efficiently to reduce fuel usage and emissions or discharges
   • Source energy used for heating, cooling, lighting and operation of remote appliances from alternative sources where appropriate and available
   • Design buildings and structures, taking into consideration the use of passive energy for lighting, heating and shelter
5. Conserve water resources
   • Manage water to optimise its use according to the environmental management plan
   • Minimise contamination with chemicals and wastes through sound utilisation strategies
   • Use settlement ponds, effluent treatment works and waste reduction processes appropriately
6. Minimise adverse interactions with wildlife and other resource users
   • Identify and assess potential interactions with wildlife and other resource users for adverse impacts
   • Develop strategies to mitigate adverse interactions
7. Undertake an environmental audit
   • Complete environmental audit, taking into consideration all relevant factors
   • Prepare reports according to workplace, customer and legal requirements