Compliance
The department implements a number of strategies to ensure the integrity of the department estate, provide safe and sustainable recreational and tourism opportunities, conserve critical habitats and wildlife, improve business and industry's environmental performance and promote sustainable development.
One of the ways it does this is through a proactive, modern and innovative compliance program.
The Queensland Government has made a significant investment with increased funding to enhance the department's compliance service delivery capacity .
The department 's compliance strategy is based around proactively managing the areas of greatest environmental risk.
The department Compliance Strategy 2008-12
The objective of the The department Compliance Strategy 2008-12 is to build a foundation of environmental compliance from which business, industry and the community can engage with sustainability.
This objective will be achieved through a series of actions:
- Assess levels of compliance.
- Develop an evidenced based understanding of environmental risk.
- Targeted response - targeting high risk activities through annual Tactical Compliance Plans.
- Reporting and feedback to future policy development - employing key performance indicators.
Annual Compliance Plan
The Annual Compliance Plan 2009-10 identifies the priority activities that will be closely monitored over the next 12 months and highlights the need to work with the community to minimise risk to the natural environment
The plan was released as part of the department's overall compliance program, which builds a foundation of environmental compliance and promotes sustainable practices to business, industry and the community.
Tactical Compliance Plans
The objective of the Tactical Compliance Plan 2008-09 is to assess levels of environmental compliance by business, industry and the community and to develop an evidenced based understanding of environmental risk.
The projects for 2008-09 are pictured here:
Last updated: 17 November 2009