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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Evaluate alternatives
   • Read and interpret organisation environmental management documents to identify specified methods for controlling risks and minimising impacts at the site
   • Work with relevant personnel and experts to consider alternative solutions
   • Identify amendments to project activities, alternative processes or improved environmental management actions to minimise risks and impacts
   • Identify feasible and economically viable solutions and document the case for adopting them
2. Report findings
   • Report the assessment of environmental risks and impacts in the required format and expected timeframe
   • Brief supervisor and stakeholders about the environmental assessment process and outcomes
3. Clarify the project activity or process and environmental management framework
   • Review the history of the project activity or process and scope of the required risk and impact assessment
4. Identify legislative, regulatory and licensing requirements
5. Access, read and interpret available information about the site, including organisation environmental management documents or risk assessment guidelines
6. Write a detailed description of all phases of the project or process and the site or project environment
7. Confirm project or process details, risk assessment procedure and risk assessment criteria with supervisor
8. Identify environmental issues for project activity or process
   • Consult with organisation personnel to identify environmental issues
9. Confirm with supervisor if input from community representatives and environmental specialists is required
10. Identify significant hazards and short and long-term risks associated with the process or project activity
11. Analyse each part of the process or project for impacts on the physical, biological and social components of the local environment and ecological linkages operating at the site
12. Identify both positive and negative impacts
13. Assess environmental risks and impacts
    • Use agreed assessment criteria to evaluate project activity or process against legislative, regulatory and licensing requirements, site terms and conditions, community values, and organisation environmental management policies and plans
14. Summarise all significant environmental risks and impacts and the evidence used to justify the assessment
    • Read and interpret organisation environmental management documents to identify specified methods for controlling risks and minimising impacts at the site
15. Work with relevant personnel and experts to consider alternative solutions
16. Identify amendments to project activities, alternative processes or improved environmental management actions to minimise risks and impacts
17. Identify feasible and economically viable solutions and document the case for adopting them
    • Report the assessment of environmental risks and impacts in the required format and expected timeframe
18. Brief supervisor and stakeholders about the environmental assessment process and outcomes