DPI Update (Issue 64)

JOHN MITAS, General Manager Minerals & Extractive Operations, reports on the next round of Targeted Audits – Review of Boundaries, Extraction & Mining Limits and Buffers.

AS part of the proactive auditing program, the DPI carries out compliance audits of a number of sites across Victoria to ensure compliance with the work plan and licence or work authority conditions.

In addition to the compliance audits, DPI conducts two targeted audit programs on significant issues across a total of at least 100 sites across Victoria. These audits will be carried out on a cross section of big and small mines and quarries. DPI’s next targeted audit programme will be focusing on boundaries, extraction & mining limits and buffers at quarries and mine sites across the State.

The objective is to determine if tenement holders are in compliance with legislative requirements and site Work Plan and if not to take appropriate action to achieve compliance.

An audit tool has been developed for the project and from late August to mid-December 2012 Inspectors from the Earth Resources Regulation Group will be conducting unannounced visits to quarries and mine to ensure site boundaries, extraction and mining limits and buffers are in place, clearly identified and appropriately managed. Copies of the audit tool and a report on the outcomes of the audit will be left with site operators.

Implementing regular internal reviews to ensure compliance with the work plan and legislative requirements will minimise the impacts of your operation on the community and the environment. Enforcement actions will be undertaken in line with the DPI Enforcement and Compliance Policy where non compliances have been identified.

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