ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGERS:
How to keep up with your legal compliance obligations?
This seminar will bring participants up to speed on the new obligations under the NSW and Federal Environmental laws. It has been designed to assist sites to up date their ISO 14001 legal registers. Others will find the session packed with the latest new requirements and issues affecting environmental management at business operations.
Keeping up to date with rapidly changing environmental laws and how they affect your business is a key challenge for corporation environmental managers. The Australian Sustainable Business Group and NCS International have launched a new initiative to help environmental management keep abreast of legislative changes though our sin monthly Environmental Law Update Seminars.
This focused half-day seminar provides a cost-effective and efficient way of learning about current environmental law developments which occured over the last 12 months or so. It is also desinged to ensuring legal risk registers within your ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) are brought up to date. You will learn about key changes and emerging developments in state and federal environmental legislation relevant to environmental aspects and risks of your business operations.
Purpose:
Businesses and organisations looking to design an ISO 14001 EMS must establish, implement and maintain procedures to identify and access legal requirements applicable to their environmental aspects and risks. The Environmental Law Update seminar helps your businesses achieve this.
Who should attend:
Environmental managers and professionals responsible for developing, implementing, maintaining and auditing ISO 14001-compliant EMSs. If you need to ensure your business complies with the range of environmental legislation, this course will give you the knowledge, information and tools to keep your environmental registers up-to-date.
Seminar Content:
NSW Environmental Law Updates since 2011
- Immediate reporting requirements
- Publication of monitoring data from Environment Protection Licences on websites
- Development of Pollution Incident Response Management Plans
- Sydney Waters new Trade Waste agreement and princing policy
- Air - Noise, Monitoring, Cogeneration, Clean Air Regulation
- Waste laws - Legislation, Classification, Policy and Exemptions Land
- Threatened Species & Bio-banking
Federal Laws
- New carbon laws overview
- Other related greenhouse: NGER, EEO, RET, Building Energy Efficiency, Off-set Standard
- EPHC: Air, Used Packaging, National Waste Policy, Product Stewardship, Contaminated Sites
Workshop
Updating legal registers
This seminar is brought to you by ASBG and NCSI combining the expertise of ASBG in new environmental legislative updates and implications and NCSI in their coverage of ISO 14001 being a certification body and trainer in this area.
Dates: Tuesday 26 February 2013
Time: 8.15am (Registrations) for 8.30am to 12.30pm
Venue: Sebel Residence, 37 Victor Street, CHATSWOOD
To Register click on the link and fill in the form and fax to NCSI.
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