Environmental Legal Obligations Directory

The Challenge

In Australia, your company is required to satisfy a wide range of environmental legal requirements. Non-compliance can bring fines, damaging publicity, expensive remedial action, and even prosecution of company directors and managers.

You must comply with a plethora of State and Commonwealth Acts, Regulations, and Policies. There are Local Government requirements that must be met and you may also hold licences and agreements which contain further obligations.

To achieve compliance, you must first know what legal obligations apply to your company. Ignorance of the law is no defence against notices or prosecution.

The Solution

Because of the difficulty of identifying and understanding the law that applies to your company, Global Environment Corporation has developed a Directory that summarises, in plain English, the environmental legal obligations that apply to Australian industry.

This Directory will be customised for your company's operations and will be an invaluable aid to compliance and demonstrating due diligence.

This customised Directory comes as a self-loading CD-Rom, with added features to include your company’s branding for a personalised feel and look. This CD Rom can also be expanded to include your company’s Environmental Management Plan thereby putting your company in a favourable position in obtaining the ISO 14001 certification.

 

The Directory

The Directory is an actionable checklist of your company's legal obligations in regard to:

Emission to Air
Management of Hazardous Waste
Management of Water
Trade Waste Discharges to Sewer
Contamination of Land
Waste Management
Noise

Your Directory will contain:
- titles of relevant legislation, regulation and policy
- detailed actionable list of your legal obligations in plain English
- your monitoring and reporting requirements
- notices, offences and penalties
- rights of authorities to enter premises and require information etc.
- your company branding (information etc)
- Environmental Management Plan (optional extra)
- contact details for regulatory authorities

The Package

The Directory is packaged to include:
- an on-site visit to assess the environmental aspects of your operations
- the customised Legal Obligations Directory on a CD-Rom
- an annual updating service for a fee.
- a help desk for telephone and email inquiries.
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