YES WE CAN!INTEGRATED

ENVIRONMENTALMANAGEMENT

S K U K U Z A S C I E N C E L E A D E R S H I PI N I T I A T I V E , M P

1 5 - 1 6 N O V E M B E R 2 0 2 1

COURSE FACILITATORS

Y E S W E C A N !

S E A N O ' B E I R N E

Sean has some 31 years’ experience inenvironmental assessment andmanagement and has lead multiplelarge scale assessments in SouthAfrica, elsewhere in Africa and ineastern Europe, the RussianFederation in particular. Sean is acertified Environmental AssessmentPractitioner (EAP) and was amongstthe first to be certified in the country.Sean has been directly involved inproject implementation too, wherehe has lead the environmental

management function on largescale. construction projects, mostrecently for the Gautrain project.Sean has also worked for the IFCas a short terms consultant (STC).The combined experience hasallowed Sean to develop aconceptual model for IntegratedEnvironmental Management (IEM)from assessment through toproject implementation and it isthat conceptual model thatunderpins the course on offer.

V I C I N A P I E R

Vici has more than 15 years’experience as an EAP projectmanager and in that time hasspecialized in managing EIAprocesses in South Africa to complywith the EIA regulations. Vici hascompleted multiple EIAs in thatcapacity and has recently managed alarge-scale EIA that tested a numberof interpretations of the EIAregulations including how to manage

the resolution of a fatal flaw. Seanand Vici work extremely welltogether in conducting EIAs inSouth Africa with Sean focusing onthe ‘big picture’ and methods needto effect the assessment, while Vicimanages the overall process inrespect of budget, time andensuring that the application isfully compliant with the EIAregulations.

E I A I N S O U T H A F R I C A

Following the first Environmental ImpactAssessment (EIA) Regulations to be publishedin South Africa in 1997, subsequent revisions ofthe Regulations have become increasinglyspecific. A point has now been reached whereEnvironmental Assessment Practitioners(EAPs) typically preface their EIA Reports witha table detailing how the regulatoryrequirements have been met, to ensure thatthere is no risk of the EIA being rejectedsimply on procedural grounds. In parallel to

the procedural evolution of the Regulations,there has been little in the way of a concomitantdevelopment of methods to underpin theprocedural requirements. Examples of methodsare few and far between (other than forsignificance) and so practitioners work thoughthe EIA process as well as they can capitalizinggenerally on in-house approaches, typically withno feedback from the Competent Authority’s(CA)’s on the methods they have used.

Y E S W E C A N !

At the same time, it seems oftenforgotten, that EIA is a predictiveprocess where the true value of theEIA must lie in the efficacy of theEnvironmental ManagementProgramme (EMPr). The EMPr mustbe a mechanism for ensuring that thefindings of the EIA are effectively

This course has been developed to presentvarious methods for conducting EIAs anddeveloping and implementing EMPrs, that gobeyond regulatory requirements, withoutcompromising regulatory compliance.Delegates will be taken though the entire EIAand EMPr process collectively presented asIntegrated Environmental Management (IEM).Every step in the process will be briefly

Every step in the process will be brieflypresented in terms of the regulatoryrequirements followed by methods that canbe used to meet both the letter, but moreimportantly, and the spirit of the law. Finally,but importantly, international lenderrequirements will also be detailed relative tothe various components of the EIA and EMPr.

The course will be held in an apposite environment, namely the Skukuza ScienceLeadership Initiative, and includes shared accomodation, all meals and game drives

The all-inclusive registration fee is R6,500.00. Please download and complete the

registration form.

Participants will earn 2 CPD points.

translated into meaningfulenvironmental management on theproject. Such environmentalmanagement implies specificmeasurable outcomes and not just ashopping list of mitigation that mayor may not work.

Y E S W E C A N !

W H O S H O U L D A T T E N D

EAPsEnvironmental Control Officers (ECOs)Competent Authorities (National and Provincial)CA: Compliance officersEnvironmental Engineers Specialists supporting EAps with EIA related studies/assessmentsEnvironmental Auditors

C O U R S E C O N T E N T

IntroductionScrreening Fatal flaw analysisScoping Project descriptiondefining activitiesdefining environmental and social aspectsEnvironmental and social baseline Impact map and defining Terms of ReferanceAssessmentDefining Levels of Acceptable Change (LAC)Comparing the current state to the LACDefining constraints and oppurtunities Defining impactsConcequencesInherent risk of the consequencesLikelihood of the consequence for the projectMitigationOutcome- based objectivesPerformance indicatorsResidual risk of the consequenceFatal flawsSustainabilityNeeds versus wants Defining sustainability outcomesNet benefitEnvironmental Management ProgrammeOutcome based objectives Performance indicators Managment and mitigation plans Monitoring Reporting Corrective action

1.2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

T R A I N I N G C O U R S EC O O R D I N A T O R

Glaudin KrugerKruger & Associates Tel: 072 320 7015E-mail: kruger@krugerassociate.com