Environmental Legislative Update Seminar
Update on recent environmental legislative changes for legal registers for ISO 14001 EMSs
14 May 2015 – Dooleys Club Lidcombe
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 Federal Environmental and state environmental law changes. It has been designed to assist sites to update their EMS or ISO 14001 legal registers. Others will find the session packed with the latest new requirements and issues affecting environmental management at business operations
This focused half-day seminar provides a cost-effective and efficient way of learning about current environmental law developments which occurred over the last 12 months or more. It is also designed to ensuring legal risk registers within your 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.
Seminar Content:
Overview of keeping your legal register up to date for ISO 14001 and other EMSs
NSW Environmental Law Updates Facilitator: Andrew Doig CEO ASBG
- Amendments to the POEO Act new PINs, odour changes and fugitive air emissions
- Environmental Licensing Risk Framework - Gaining low risk scores and it advantages
- Changes to waste legislation: Proximity Principle, new waste tracking, waste levy application on recyclers and processors, changes to Resource Recovery Exemptions, new immobilisation documentation and asbestos waste changes
- Contaminated Land Management Act changes - new fine levels
- Immediate reporting requirements
- Publication of monitoring data from Environment Protection Licences on websites
- Training. testing and updating of Pollution Incident Response Management Plans
Federal and other State Laws
- Other related greenhouse: NGER, Direct Action update
- NEPM changes and NEPC actions
- Major changes in other states
Legal Register Update
Overview of keeping your legal register up to date for ISO 14001 and other EMSs
Dates: Wednesday 14 May 2015
Time: 8.15am (Registrations) for 8.30am to 12.30pm
Venue: Dooleys Lidcombe Club, Church Street, Lidcombe
Price: Members $275 Non-Members $330
Register and pay by Credit Card or Register and be invoiced
