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ASBG is a business representative body helping organisations deal with the substantial and rapidly changing environmental, and greenhouse laws and helping them to become more sustainable.
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| ASBG's Policy Reference Group provides members their voice to be included in our submissions on policy and draft legislation. It meets about 5 times a year. ASBG's submissions can be found here. |
Below is are our current set of environmental training and environmental seminars to assist you in being better at managing environmental issues at your site. We also run many other member events and more details are available on our website.
Environmental Training and Environmental Seminars
NSW Waste Classification and Laws Workshop Part 1: 24, 25 & 26 March 2026
Live on 24, 25 & 26 March , 3 x 1 hr webinar covering NSW's waste classification, waste laws with a focus on waste contaminated soils. It covers classification, resource recovery, waste licensing, asbestos waste, waste sampling hazardous waste classification and tracking and more. This will include the new max penalties on environmental offences and provides the latest updated version covering wastes and contaminated soils off-site management. See more... Register here....
NSW Waste Classification Webinar Part 2 - 22 & 23 April 2026
Part 2 of the Waste Classification webinar series covering the requirements for formal waste classification and the preparation of Waste Classification reports to EPA Guidelines. This also covers the sampling requirements to achieve the statistical requirement for proper classification and for other waste requirements. Following this the webinar covers Resource Recovery Orders and Exemptions (RROE), how to measure, and what is required to gain specific RROEs. See more... Register here...
Implications of Changes to PIRMP Law - February 2026
A one hour webinar covering the legislative changes affecting PIRMPs and their implementation, testing and training. This includes the increase in the Material Harm threshold from $10k to $50k, which also affects the meaning of non-trivial Material Harm. Other changes are also covered from Environmental Legislation Amendment Act 2025. See more click here or Register click here
PIRMP Changes and Adaptation Webinar - November 2025
A 3 session webinar on the preparation, changes coming to PIRMPs and compliance assistance for avoidance of being a victim of your own documents. Covers writing, contents, incident combat, association with emergency plans, managing incidents, testing and training of PIRMP. It also discusses recent EPA actions regarding PIRMPs See More... Register here...
Waste: NSW Exemptions and Immobilisations Webinar - October 2025
A webinar on the management of Resource Recovery Orders & Exemptions and immobilisation of waste including new changes to asbestos. This advanced webinar is designed to help environmental and waste professionals on RROEs to avoid such legal traps. It also covers where they apply and how they work and also where to consider applying for a Specific RROE or Immobilisation Contaminant Approval (ICA or SIA) from the EPA. See more... Register here...
Update: Environmental Law and Policy Webinar - October 2025
A three by one hour live webinar sessions over-viewing the main environmental legislative changes for NSW. QLD, Vic, SA, WA, other states and the Commonwealth. If you have national environmental management responsibility this webinar will get you up to speed on what is new in environmental laws, polices and consultations coming. It is designed largely for industrial operations and environmental compliance issues. See more... Register here...
