MSAENV472B Implement and
Monitor Environmentally
Sustainable Work Practices
Neale Farmer – Coordinator Major
Environmental Initiatives – Hunter TAFE
neale.farmer1@tafe.nsw.edu.au
Sessions:
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2.
3.
Wednesday 7 May
Wednesday 21 May
Wednesday 4 June
Overview of Today’s Session
- Introductions
- Sustainability?
- Describe Unit – MSAENV472B
- Sustainability at Hunter TAFE
- Environmental Compliance
- Next Session: Campus Footprint!
MSAENV472B Implement and
monitor environmentally
sustainable work practices
Unit
descriptor
This competency covers the
outcomes required to effectively
analyse the workplace in relation
to environmentally sustainable
work practices and to implement
improvements and monitor their
effectiveness.
Application of the Unit
Applies to those who have responsibility for a specific area of work or who
lead a work group or team.
It addresses the knowledge, processes and techniques necessary to
implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices,
including the development of processes and tools.
It includes:
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Identifying areas for improvement
Developing plans to make improvements
Implementing and monitoring improvements in environmental performance.
This competency applies to all sectors of the manufacturing industry and
members of its value chain.
Applied to all sections of workplace -
Contextualised!
Visit http://training.gov.au/Training/Details/MSAENV472B
for a full description of this Unit and its requirements.
Assessment?
A typical workplace?
The Animals Save the Planet - Energy Efficient
Penguin – YouTube (49 secs)
Change the way you think!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nekqKEsbdU
Links and Resources to get you started
TAFE Student Sustainability Induction:
http://ecostudent.tafensw.edu.au/
WWF Footprint Calculator:
http://www.wwf.org.au/our_work/peopl
e_and_the_environment/human_footpri
nt/footprint_calculator/
Global Footprint Network Calculator:
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/i
ndex.php/gfn/page/calculators
The Journey to Sustainability
Sustainability explained through animation
(YouTube: 2mins)
The next 10 years will be very unlike the last
10 years (YouTube: 6 mins)
Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work,
About Stuff (YouTube 21 mins)
1. Sustainability1 – a journey to balance
PPP = people, planet, profit EEE = economy, ecology, equity
A mechanistic/functionalist approach2
A holistic/interpretive approach2
1. The Brundtland definition of sustainability (1987 cited in Porter and
Cordoba 2009) is used here, namely meeting the economic, social, and
environmental needs of the present and the future generations
2. Porter and Cordoba, 2009
Copyright of Liz Sidiropoulos
Sustainable Work Practices at Hunter TAFE
• Google “Hunter TAFE Sustainability” and download the 2013
Hunter TAFE Strategic Plan for the Institute’s objectives,
targets and programs related to environmental sustainability
• Visit the NSW Department of Environment and Heritage
Website for an overview of relevant environmental
legislation
Learning in Future Environments (LiFE)
Framework
Copy of Environmental
Compliance Training for
Kurri Campus
Thursday 17 November 2011
neale.farmer1@tafe.nsw.edu.au
Ext: 53916
Overview
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What?
Why?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
Preventing pollution, Protecting
Biodiversity, Conserving Resources.
– Protection of the Environment Operations Act
1997
– Pesticides Act 1999
– National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974
– Native Vegetation Act 2003
– Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995
– Radiation Control Act 1990
– Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
– Marine Parks Act 1997
– Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act 1985
– Contaminated Land Management Act 1997
– Water Management Act 2000
– Local Government Act 1993
– National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act
2007
– Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Act 1999
ACTIVITY 1 Environmental Pollution:
What is environmental pollution?
Why are we talking about it?
Who’s liable, Who’s responsible?
Protection of the Environment
Operations (POEO) Act 1997
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Air
Noise
Water
Land
Waste
Enforcement (Appropriate Regulatory
Authority)
Environment
Protection
Authority
State and local government
organisations including
contractors
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All premises and activities listed
on Schedule 1 POEO Act
Local Council
Everyone else:
Including most smallmedium sized businesses
and residential premises
Offences
• Tier 1 – willful or negligent
• Tier 2 – strict liability
• Tier 3 (on the spot fines issues for minor Tier 2
offences)
Tier 1 Offences
Maximum penalties
Individual
Corporation
Negligent
$500,000 +/or
4 years gaol
$2 million
Wilful
$1million +/or
7 years gaol
$5 million
Tier 1 Offences
• s115 – Disposal of waste to harm the
environment
• s116 – Leaks, spillages and other escapes
• s117 – Emission of ozone depleting substances
Willful
Negligent
Tier 1 Defence
• The offence was due to causes over which the
person had no control
• The person took reasonable precautions and
exercised due diligence to prevent the
offence.
Tier 2 Offences
Maximum penalties:
Individuals = $250,000 (plus $60,000 a
day for continuing offences)
Corporations = $1million (plus $120,000
per day for continuing offences)
Water
Land
Air
Waste
Noise
Water Pollution
120 Prohibition of pollution of waters
(1) A person who pollutes any waters is
guilty of an offence.
(2) In this section: pollute waters
includes cause or permit any waters
to be polluted.
Which is water pollution?
Duty to notify
Notify the appropriate regulatory
authority of any pollution incidents
causing or threatening material
harm to the environment
Duty to notify
Material harm =
1) actual or potential harm that is not trivial
OR
2) Actual or potential loss or property
damage amounting to $10,000
Including on your own premises
Duty to notify
If in doubt call the Office of
Environment and Heritage (EPA)
24 hour Pollution Line
131555
2011 Changes to NSW Pollution
Legislation
• Pollution incidents to be immediately reported,
not notified ‘as soon as practicable’;
• Establishing the Environmental Protection
Authority as an independent, statutory
authority headed by a Chief Environmental
Regulator.
• Double to $2 million the maximum penalty for
failing to report an incident immediately;
• Clarify the EPA’s powers to conduct mandatory
environmental audits.
Court decisions
• the extent of the harm caused or likely to
be caused to the environment
• the practical measures that could have
been taken to prevent, control, abate or
mitigate that harm
• the extent to which the person who
committed the offence could reasonably
have foreseen the harm caused or likely to
be caused to the environment
Court decisions
• the extent to which the person who
committed the offence had control
over the causes that gave rise to the
offence
• whether, in committing the offence,
the person was complying with orders
from an employer or supervising
employee.
Demonstrate due diligence
ACTIVITY 2:
What is due diligence?
How do WE demonstrate due
diligence on this site?
How can YOU show due
diligence?
Environmental
improvement
plan
Site
audits
Waste disposal
receipts
Staff training
records
Due diligence
Records of regular
inspections and
maintenance
Environmental
Management System
Site risk
assessment
Pollution control
equipment and
structures
– Protection of the Environment Operations Act
1997
– Pesticides Act 1999
– National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974
– Native Vegetation Act 2003
– Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995
– Radiation Control Act 1990
– Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
– Marine Parks Act 1997
– Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act 1985
– Contaminated Land Management Act 1997
– Water Management Act 2000
– Local Government Act 1993
– National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act
2007
– Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Act 1999
Further Information…
• NSW Environmental Defenders Office:
www.edo.org.au/edonsw
• OEH: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/
E: neale.farmer1@tafe.nsw.edu.au
Review of Today’s Session
Introductions
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Sustainability defined
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Describe Unit – MSAENV472B
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Sustainability at Hunter TAFE
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Environmental Compliance at Hunter
TAFE
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Next Session:
Campus Footprint!
Next Session (21 May)
“ knowledge, processes and techniques necessary to
implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work
practices, including the development of processes and
tools”
Continuous Improvement Cycle:
- Identify and research area/s for
improvement, consult, measure baseline.
- Set goals, targets, objectives
- Implement the improvement
- Monitor implementation and results
- Revise or adjust plan
- etc...........
Prepare for Session 2 (21 May)
1. TAFE Sustainability Induction
2. Attempt an online footprint calculator
3. Look at links on legislation (NSW Office of
Environment and Heritage and NSW
Environmental Defenders Office
4. Google – “Sustainability” and “Sustainable
Laboratories”
neale.farmer1@tafe.nsw.edu.au