NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGERS:

Keep up to date with your environmental compliance obligations across
Australian jurisdictions

This seminar will bring participants up to speed on the new and emerging environmental obligations under the Federal  and Australian state environmental law changes. The session is packed with the latest news, requirements and issues affecting environmental management at business operations.

Purpose:

Businesses and organisations need keep up to date with new environmental legislation to avoid costly surprises. Also those operating 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 Legislative Update webinar helps your businesses achieve this.

Who Should Attend?:

Those with environmental responsibilities or corporate compliance and environmental professionals responsible will find this course useful to cover your national obligations.  Also useful for ensuring your ISO 14001 legal registers are up to date and meet auditor’s requirements.

Content:

NSW Environmental Law Updates Facilitator: ASBG CEO, Andrew Doig

• Changes to waste legislation: Waste Regulation proposed changes: Waste levy reduction changes, NSW Governments response to China’s Green Sword Impact on Recycling, C&D and Scrap metal recyclers standards and the Container Deposit Scheme
• Review of SEPP 55 Remediation of Land
• Recovery of Monitory Benefits of illegal activities
• Load Based Licensing – Proposed Changes
• The new Noise for Industry Policy

Victorian Environmental Laws Update:

• New Environment Protection Amendment Bill and its implications
• Victoria’s Air Quality Strategy 2019
• Review of the Victorian Dangerous Goods (Transport by Road or Rail) Regulations
• Water and PIW Regulations

Queensland Environmental Laws Update:

• Queensland’s proposed waste levy and recycling strategy
• Chain of Responsibility Law and Guidelines and what they mean
• Review of Queensland’s energy legislation
• New Financial Assurances
• Water monitoring and sampling manual

South Australian Environmental Laws Update

• Environment Protection (Waste Reform) Amendments
• Local Nuisance and Littering Act and Regulations
• Energy Security Target and actions
• SA new Environment Protection (Air Quality) Policy 2016

Other States and Territories

• Western Australia’s Draft Odour Guidelines
• ACT’s Climate Strategy and Carbon Tax

National and Federal Laws

• National Energy Guarantee
• Review of NGER and the Safeguard Mechanism
• PFAS summary across Australian jurisdictions: SA, Victoria, Federal and other states
• Waste levies across Australia  the states which are zero and others going above $100/t
• NEPC Update: Review of the National Pollutant Inventory

Seminar details:

Date: Thursday 27 September 2018
Time: 8.20am (Registrations) for 8:30 am to 12.20 pm
Venue: The Chatswood Club, Level 1, 11 Help Street, Chatswood
Cost: $285 (ASBG members) or $340 (Non Members)

Register and pay by Credit Card or Register and be invoiced