ENVIROALERT

Environmental Regulation Monitoring

Environmental obligations under local, regional and national laws are a minefield for businesses today. Successful navigation of this complex area demands specialist skills. At Tonkin & Taylor our resource management specialists have expertise in environmental law and regulation. We can monitor important changes for you, providing you with specific, accurate and timely information. This can help you avoid potential liability, and added costs.

Our service helps you to:

Manage risk - In New Zealand environmental legislation and regulation are rapidly evolving. The result is increased complexity and potential liability. We help manage the risk by providing you with accurate and timely information.

Identify matters that affect you - Narrow timeframes limit participation in the legislative and resource consent process. T&T’s monitoring will alert you to matters that can signifiantly affect your business, allowing you to be involved in the legislative process.

Save time and costs - Why spend your scarce resources keeping up with frequent changes when we can monitor them for you?

Meet ISO 14001 requirements - We help you keep abreast of legislative changes as required by the ISO 14001 standard.

Database

T&T maintains a comprehensive database of all current policies and plans prepared under the Resource Management Act.

This includes:

• District and regional plans
  
• National and regional policy statements
  
• Environmental standards and guidelines.
  We also track change and maintain information on
  our database about:
  
• Resource Management Act and Regulations
  
• Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act
  and Regulations
  
• Local Government Act and Regulations
  
• Conservation Act and Regulations
  
• Environmental and Health and Safety Codes of
  Practice
  
• National strategies and policies relevant to the
  environment
  
• Health and Safety in Employment Act and
  Regulations
  
• Regional pest management strategies
  
• Conservation management strategies
  
• Building Act and Regulations
  
• Crown Minerals Act and Regulations
  
• Climate Change Response Act and Regulations
  
• Land Transport Management Act and Regulations
  

Monitoring Service
Through regular, scheduled contact with Councils and other agencies T&T monitors developments affecting information maintained on our database. We monitor public notices and use a wide range of bulletin and notification tools to keep our database current. Experienced managers with knowledge about your business review and filter this information to identify specific changes or developments directly relevant to you.

Immediate Alerts and Follow-up Report
When we identify a change or development relevant to you, our EnviroAlert service will send you an email, alerting you to the change. Alerts are followed by a one-page summary outlining the issue and specifying how it could affect your activities, with recommended action.

Client Summary Reports
We provide regular reports from our database on the status of all tracked documents relevant to your business.

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