Environmental management
EPA Compliance Strategy
The EPA implements a number of strategies to ensure the integrity of the EPA estate, provide safe and sustainable recreational and tourism opportunities, conserve critical habitats and wildlife, improve business and industry's environmental performance and promote sustainable development.
One of the ways it does this is through a proactive, modern and innovative compliance program.
The Queensland Government has made a significant investment with increased funding to enhance the EPA's compliance service delivery capacity .
The EPA 's compliance strategy is based around proactively managing the areas of greatest environmental risk.
EPA Compliance Strategy 2008-12
The objective of the EPA Compliance Strategy 2008-12 is to build a foundation of environmental compliance from which business, industry and the community can engage with sustainability.
This objective will be achieved through a series of actions:
- Assess levels of compliance.
- Develop an evidenced based understanding of environmental risk.
- Targeted response - targeting high risk activities through annual Tactical Compliance Plans.
- Reporting and feedback to future policy development - employing key performance indicators.
Coming Soon
Over the coming months, there will be additional information placed on this website to:
- Ensure minimum environmental performance standards and the EPA's expectations are clear, consistent and certain.
- Enable you to assess and manage your own environmental risks and therefore improve your environmental performance.
- Inform you about existing and innovative approaches and technologies available to address environmental risks.
- Advise you of the environmental risks that are of most concern to the EPA, and the projects and activities we are carrying out to target those risk areas.
Tactical Compliance Plans
The objective of the Tactical Compliance Plan 2008-09 is to assess levels of environmental compliance by business, industry and the community and to develop an evidenced based understanding of environmental risk.
The projects for 2008-09 are pictured here:
Last updated: 09 January 2009
