Environment
Risk Strategies provides specialised consultancy in environmental risk management services to industry and governments nationally and internationally.
Our consultants are experts in a range of services including:
- Policy and strategy development
- Development of EMS to ISO14001 Certification Standard
- System Auditing
- Support with and implementation of various national environmental initiatives and covenants
- Assessment of the environmental aspects and impacts of your organisation’s activities
- Sustainability and biodiversity projects
- Energy surveys
- Site contamination analysis & environmental impact surveys
- Strategic advice on an environmentally sustainable for your organisation
- Environmental and social analysis of new projects
- Implementation and monitoring of environmentally sustainable practices and procedures throughout your organisation
The principles of environmental auditing can be defined as a periodic, objective, and documented assessment of an organisation’s operations compared to the audit criteria.
Audit criterias may be compliance requirements such as regulations or may be management practices that benefit the environment. In either case, an audit provides information on the operational status of an organisation compared to management’s environmental performance expectations.
Audits can be carried for:
- Air emissions
- Waste water discharges
- Noise emissions
- Land contamination
- Storage
- Monitoring programs
- Prescribed waste management
- Emergency preparation
- Chemical spills management
- Training
- Environmental communication and complaint management
- Notifying authorities of environmental incidents
- Compliance requirements
- Any license requirements or requirements of other local agencies
- Management system
- Business expectations
Your Environmental Management System (EMS) seeks to identify the effects on the environment (environmental aspects) that each of your organisation’s activities has, and to establish measures to control and improve those aspects that may cause significant environmental impact.
These controls must be systematically managed, through a constant process of monitoring and performance review, correcting areas of non-conformance and conducting periodic assessments to provide the management team with information.
Waste minimisation through improved materials, reduced waste generation, recovery and reuse is critical to sustainable environmental development.
Risk Strategies in partnership with key engineering organisations can assist and facilitate action, information workshops on industrial waste management and waste minimisation strategies. The Risk Strategies team can provide advice on wastewater treatment, air emissions, noise emissions and land contamination across several industry sectors.