Environmental Controls & Spill Response

By the end

What you'll build

• Identify the environmental aspects of your own tasks and the impacts they can cause
• Apply site controls for dust, noise, water and waste in day-to-day work
• Set up and check secondary containment and bunding for stored substances
• Take the first containment actions for a small spill within your training and equipment limits
• Report a spill or environmental incident with the detail an external notification would need
• Explain why some incidents must be notified externally and who makes that decision

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 42 lessons

1. 01

   Environmental Duties on Site

   6 lessons
   • The Environmental Aspects and Impacts of Your Own Job
   • Site Licence Conditions in Plain Language
   • Who Regulates What, in General Terms
   • What an Environmental Incident Actually Costs
   • Community and Land-Access Sensitivities
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   Air, Dust and Noise

   6 lessons
   • Dust Suppression That Actually Works
   • Dust Sources and How They Are Monitored
   • Blast Fume and Air Quality Events
   • Noise and Vibration at the Site Boundary
   • Weather Conditions That Change the Risk
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Water Management

   6 lessons
   • Keeping Clean Water Clean and Dirty Water Contained
   • Sediment and Erosion Control
   • Tailings and Water Storage Awareness
   • Discharge Points and Routine Sampling
   • Groundwater and Dewatering Basics
   • + 1 more lesson
4. 04

   Waste and Hazardous Substances

   7 lessons
   • Storing Fuels, Oils and Chemicals Without Creating a Spill
   • Waste Segregation and Tracking
   • Reading a Safety Data Sheet for Environmental Information
   • Bunding, Secondary Containment and Capacity
   • Transfer, Decanting and Refuelling Practice
   • + 2 more lessons
5. 05

   Spill Response

   6 lessons
   • The First Ten Minutes of a Spill: Stop, Contain, Notify
   • Spill Kits: Contents, Placement and Restocking
   • Deciding When a Spill Is Beyond Your Limits
   • Protecting Drains and Watercourses
   • Clean-Up, Waste Disposal and Site Restoration
   • + 1 more lesson
6. 06

   Reporting and Improvement

   6 lessons
   • Writing an Environmental Incident Report
   • Internal Reporting Versus External Notification
   • Evidence, Photographs and Sampling
   • Investigation and Root Cause
   • Closing Actions and Preventing Recurrence
   • + 1 more lesson
7. 07

   Practice and check

   5 lessons
   • What You Find, What It Needsmatch pairs
   • The First Ten Minutessequence order
   • Controls, Containment and Words That Matterfill blank
   • Diesel, Rain and a Grate Downslopescenario
   • Course quizquiz

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