19Implementation strategy

19 Implementation strategy

(1)  The environment plan for a petroleum activity must include a strategy (the implementation strategy) that is in accordance with this regulation.

(2)  The implementation strategy must –

(a) include measures –

(i) to identify the specific systems, practices and procedures to be used to ensure that the environmental performance objectives and environmental performance standards in the environment plan are met; and

(ii) to ensure that each employee or contractor working on, or in connection with, the petroleum activity is aware of his or her responsibilities in relation to the environment plan and has the appropriate competencies and training; and

(b) identify the specific systems, practices and procedures to be used to ensure that the environmental impacts and risks in respect of the petroleum activity are continuously reduced to as low as reasonably practicable; and

(c) establish a clear chain of command, setting out the roles and responsibilities of personnel in relation to the implementation, management and review of the environment plan; and

(d) provide for –

(i) the monitoring, audit, management of non-conformance, and review, of the operator’s environmental performance and the implementation strategy; and

(ii) the maintenance of a quantitative record of emissions and discharges (whether occurring during normal operations or otherwise) to the air, marine, seabed and sub-seabed environment, that is accurate and can be monitored and audited against the environmental performance standards and measurement criteria.

(3)  The implementation strategy must provide for appropriate consultation with –

(a) relevant authorities of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory; and

(b) other relevant interested persons or organisations.

(4)  The implementation strategy must comply with the Act.