RIIENV601D — Establish and maintain the environmental management system

1 Establish and maintain the framework for the environmental management system

• 1.1Access, interpret and apply environmental legislation, management documentation and ensure the work activity is compliant
• 1.2Develop, document and have approved written policies and system procedures that clearly express the organisation’s commitment to environmental management and how relevant environmental legislation will be implemented, consistent with overall organisational policies
• 1.3Define, allocate and include in job descriptions and duty statements, responsibilities and duties for implementation and integration of the system
• 1.4Identify, source and/or provide the resources for the operation of the system in a timely and consistent manner
• 1.5Provide and explain information on the system and procedures for the area of responsibility in a form readily accessible to employees

2 Establish and maintain participative arrangements for the environmental management system

• 2.1Establish and ensure the maintenance of appropriate consultative processes, in consultation with employees and their representatives
• 2.2Ensure issues raised through participation and consultation are dealt with and resolved promptly and effectively
• 2.3Ensure information about the outcomes of participation and consultation is provided in a manner accessible to employees

3 Establish and maintain procedures for identifying environmental hazards

• 3.1Existing and potential environmental hazards are identified and confirmed through site inspection and trends identified from the environmental record system
• 3.2Develop and maintain written procedures for the ongoing identifying of existing and potential environmental hazards and ensure the implementation of these procedures
• 3.3Monitor activities and ensure that environmental hazard identification procedure is adopted effectively throughout the organisation
• 3.4Ensure procedures are in place and applied to environmental hazard identification at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure that new hazards are not created

4 Establish and maintain procedures for assessing environmental risk

• 4.1Ensure appropriate assessment of risks presented by identified environmental hazards is carried out
• 4.2Develop a system procedure for ongoing assessment of risks and ensure its integration within site procedures and systems of work
• 4.3Monitor activities to ensure that risk assessment procedure is adopted effectively throughout the organisation
• 4.4Ensure procedures are in place for risk assessment to be addressed at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change, to ensure that risks are not created

5 Establish and maintain procedures for treating environmental risks

• 5.1Develop and ensure implementation of measures to treat assessed risks
• 5.2Ensure the implementation of interim solutions, until a permanent control measure is developed, when measures which treat a risk at its source are not immediately practicable
• 5.3Develop system procedures for ongoing control of risks and ensure their integration within site procedures and general systems of work
• 5.4Monitor activities to ensure that the risk treatment procedure is adopted effectively throughout the organisation
• 5.5Ensure risk treatment is addressed at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change within the organisation to ensure that adequate risk control measures are included
• 5.6Identify inadequacies in existing risk treatment measures and seek and provide resources to enable implementation of new measures

6 Establish and maintain organisational procedures for dealing with hazardous environmental events

• 6.1Identify the range of most likely potential hazardous environmental events
• 6.2Develop systems procedures in consultation with appropriate emergency services that would treat the risks associated with the potential hazardous events
• 6.3Provide appropriate information and training to all employees to enable implementation of the correct procedures in all relevant circumstances

7 Establish and maintain an environmental training program

• 7.1Develop and ensure implementation of an environmental training program
• 7.2Identify and fulfil employees’ environmental training needs

8 Establish and maintain a system for environmental records

• 8.1Establish and monitor the system for keeping environmental records
• 8.2Identify patterns of environmental non-compliance

9 Evaluate the organisation’s environmental system and related policies, procedures and programs

• 9.1Assess the effectiveness of the environmental management system and related policies, procedures and programs in accordance with the organisation’s goals, objectives and statutory requirements
• 9.2Develop and ensure implementation of improvements to the system to ensure more effective achievement of environmental aims
• 9.3Assess compliance against compliance documentation and code of practice to ensure that legal environmental standards are maintained

What does an assessment tool for RIIENV601D need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for RIIENV601D needs to address all 54 unit components: 9 elements with 32 performance criteria, 10 performance evidence requirements, 12 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.

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