Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish and maintain the framework for the environmental management system
- Obtain, interpret and confirm work requirements
- Access, interpret and apply documentation required to establish and maintain the environmental management system
- Develop and document written policies and system procedures regarding the commitment of the organisation to environmental management and implementation of relevant environmental legislation
- Identify and determine the responsibilities and duties for implementation and integration of the system in job descriptions and duty statements
- Identify, source and provide resources for the operation of the environmental management system according to workplace procedures
- Communicate the system, responsibilities and procedures to relevant personnel
- Establish and maintain participative arrangements for the environmental management system
- Establish and maintain procedures for identifying environmental hazards
- Identify and confirm existing and potential environmental hazards through site inspection and trends identified from the environmental record system
- Develop and maintain written procedures for the ongoing identification of existing and potential environmental hazards
- Monitor activities and confirm that environmental hazard identification procedures are implemented according to workplace procedures
- Confirm procedures are applied to environmental hazard identification at the planning, design and evaluation stages of changes in the workplace to confirm that new hazards are not created
- Establish and maintain procedures for assessing environmental risk
- Confirm an appropriate assessment of risks and identification of environmental hazards is implemented
- Develop system procedures for ongoing assessment of risks confirm according to workplace procedures
- Monitor activities to confirm the implementation of risk assessment procedures
- Confirm procedures are applied for risk assessments at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any changes in the workplace to confirm that new risks are not created
- Establish and maintain procedures for treating environmental risks
- Develop and confirm the implementation of measures to treat assessed risks according to workplace procedures
- Confirm the implementation of interim solutions, until a permanent control measure is developed
- Develop system procedures for ongoing control of risks and confirm their integration according to workplace procedures
- Monitor activities to confirm the implementation of risk treatment procedures
- Confirm risk treatments and risk control measures are addressed at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any changes in the workplace
- Identify inadequacies in existing risk treatment measures and seek and provide resources to enable implementation of new measures
- Establish and maintain organisational procedures for dealing with hazardous environmental events
- Identify the range of most likely potential hazardous environmental events according to job requirements
- Develop systems procedures in consultation with appropriate emergency services that would treat the risks associated with the potential hazardous events according to workplace procedures
- Provide appropriate information and training to all employees according to workplace procedures
- Establish and maintain an environmental training program
- Establish and maintain a system for environmental records
- Evaluate the organisational environmental management system and related policies, procedures and programs
- Assess the effectiveness of the environmental management system according to workplace procedures
- Develop and confirm implementation of improvements to the system to confirm more effective achievement of environmental aims
- Assess compliance against compliance documentation and code of practice to confirm that legal environmental standards are maintained