Protect human health, biodiversity, and ecological integrity by ensuring environmental risks are systematically identified, assessed, and controlled.

Why is Environmental Compliance Auditing required?

Environmental compliance auditing is essential because construction, infrastructure, remediation, and operational activities can create risks to human health and the environment through pollution or waste. Under the General Environmental Duty (GED) of the Environmental Protection Act (EPA), anyone conducting activities that pose environmental risks must eliminate or minimise those risks so far as reasonably practicable.

Auditing checks whether environmental management is systematic and supported by a risk management process that helps contractors, operators, and others meet their GED obligations.

Auditor judgement is critical—for example, recognising that an uncovered, unbunded fuel storage area near a waterway represents a high‑risk situation requiring elimination or appropriate control measures.

Compliance auditing verifies that environmental risks are understood, scored accurately, and managed appropriately to meet legal obligations and protect the environment.

 

How can Landserv help?

Landserv provides experienced environmental auditing services across a broad range of project types, including road, rail, infrastructure construction, remediation, marine and port projects, and operating facilities.

Our audit approach incorporates environmental legislative risk management principles as a core part of our practice. We assess whether clients’ environmental management systems and the associated risk controls are properly designed, implemented, and effective in meeting GED and EPA requirements.

Landserv’s lead environmental auditor is Damien Chappell, who brings:

• 30+ years of experience with 1,000+ projects, including 50+ environmental audits
• Prior role as Port Safety and Environmental Management Plan (SEMP) Auditor for Victoria’s local ports (2008–2016)
• CEnvP certification (since 2009), Exemplar Global EMS Auditor (since 2014), and VicRoads EMS Auditing prequalification (since 2008)

Through this expertise, Landserv helps clients ensure their environmental risks are correctly identified, scored, acknowledged, and controlled, even where specific control methodologies may vary—as long as they achieve GED outcomes.