Environmental Management and Monitoring

Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan auditing and continual compliance

The Mindarie Regional Council operations a licenced facility under a Department of Environmental and Water Regulations, Part V licence.  This licence is audited annually against how we operator our site. This audit process is necessary to:

• ensure that MRC continues to comply with its licence requirements;
• ensure the ongoing compliance with MRC’s environmental site management plan;
• assess the effectiveness of the environmental system and provides improvements to management, with regard to Statutory compliance and performance;
• identify additional areas of risk improvement opportunities; and
• provide the organisation with feedback to facilitate ongoing development and implementation of our operation.

Particular MRC Environmental Management strengths identified during a recent audit included:

• regulatory compliance audits;
• environmental awareness/induction process;
• employee and contractor awareness of environmental aspects/impacts, etc;
• chemicals (separation of dangerous goods);
• management of cultural heritage areas;
• management of dieback affected areas; and
• community consultation and education.