Subject area 03

Aspects & impacts

Connect activities and pressures to the changes they can cause in the environment.

Start with the guidance

Read the foundations, then follow the connections to related environmental decisions.

Foundation

Distinguish the environmental interaction from the resulting change, then connect both to a useful operational control.

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Understand responsibilities, priorities and the relationship between operations and the environment.

Bring environmental decisions, responsibilities and evidence into everyday work.

Prevent releases at source and understand pathways through air, water and land.

Follow materials, energy and waste through their life cycles.