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SKED Construction Environmental AuditDo other

Documentation

  • Is SKED Construction Ltd.'s Environmental Managements System Certificate ISO14001:2015 displayed on Site?

  • Is SKED Construction Ltd.'s Environmental Policy displayed on site?

  • Has a Site Specific Environmental Management Plan been prepared, communicated, and available to all Site Employees?

  • Has a Site Specific Emergency Response Plan been prepared, communicated, and available to all Site Employees?

  • Has a Site Specific Pollution Prevention Plan been prepared, communicated, and available to all Site Employees?

  • Does the Site Induction include information regarding Environmental requirements?

  • Do other Site Inspections include Environmental questions?

  • Has Environmental related training is provided to Site Empoyees?

  • Are the Waste Transfer Notes and Consignment Notes been kept, recorded onto Smart Waste?

General Environmental Information and Environmental Incidents

  • Is there an Environmental Notice Board/Policy/Information area at the site or accessible virtually?

  • If there is a site induction, does it cover environmental elements?

  • Is there a site map with high-risk activity areas, fuel and chemical storage, waste storage, environmental receptors?

  • Have any environmental incidents occurred at the site?

  • Have there been any external or internal inspections or audits of the site?

Permits, Licenses and General Binding Rules

  • Are any environmental permits required for this work?

  • Has site drainage been designed to separate clean and dirty water?

  • Have watercourse crossings been appropriately assessed and designed?

  • Is the work taking place within the vicinity of any Private Water Supplies? Are appropriate mitigation measures in place?

Pollution Prevention

  • Are Polluting Liquids stored in secondary containment?

  • Can be dual skin tank, bund or bunded pallet/drip tray etc.

    Must be 110% or 25% of combined volume.

    No outlets without intervention.

    No valves etc.

  • Are Polluting Materials stored away from water courses and drains as far as practicable?

  • OSR regs require 10m from water courses and 50m from boreholes.

    How has the contractor applied this? What, if any, extra mitigation is in place if they cannot comply with this due to site constraints?

  • Are spill kits available?

  • Are they close to where they could be needed?

    Stocked

    Are operatives trained to use them?

  • Are plant nappies deployed where appropriate?

  • Plant, Refuelling and Dispensing Equipment.

  • Has a Spill Drill been carried out in the last 6 Months?

  • Are excavated materials stored appropriately to avoid silt run off issues?

  • Stored away from drainage, protection between it and watercourse

    Covered if necessary.

  • Are any silt management options in use?

  • Silt socks,

    settlement tanks/ponds etc

  • Are there any controls required from the risk assessment completed prior to works? If so verify that they are in place and effective. Note this can be from any aspect, such as protected species, INNS, water pollution etc.

  • Review identified controls from the risk assessment and any permits etc.

    Can they be identified on site?

    Are there arrangements to maintain their effectiveness and check that they remain effective?

    If there are multiple items required either pick a sample or focus on one or two elements and check in more detail.

  • In terms of dewatering the site/works, are there appropriate controls in place for dewatering?

  • See Netregs dewatering link

  • In terms of single-use plastic and general debris, is the contractor working to eliminate SUP and is plastic, litter and debris well controlled on site?

Waste Management

  • Is there a site-specific waste management plan?

  • Smaller jobs will not have a site waste management plan

  • Are waste streams being segregated by type appropriately?

  • Check that hazardous wastes and non hazardous wastes are not being mixed.

    Segregation by type will enable recycling of wastes.

  • Are containers appropriately specified for amount and type of waste?

  • Are containers adequately containing the waste, i.e. large enough, suitable materials and practical for those filling them.

    Are containers labelled appropriately?

  • Are records kept for wastes stored and removed from site?

  • In terms of Waste Data, how is it tracked, is there a forecast or targets, and how is it reported both internally and to SPEN?

  • Excavated Materials (See note/Instruction)

  • Are excavated materials segregated appropriately?

    Is it stored away from watercourses and drains?

    Is any mitigation in required, if so is it appropriate?

    How will it be reinstated? Needs to be reverse order from extraction.

    Is it planned or >10m3? RPS cannot be used (30.10.2010)

Review of Findings

  • Name of Auditor

  • Name of Site Manager/Supervisor

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