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SHORT COURSE

CSMR Module 2: Investigation, Remediation and Reporting

$ 730.00

START DATE

20 February

MODE

Online

DURATION

8.5 hrs

COMMITMENT

8.5 hrs

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Meet the Expert

Dr Sophie Wood

Dr Sophie Wood
CSARM Program Director

Sophie is a former NSW EPA and QLD accredited Site Auditor and is still a Certified Environmental Practitioner (Site Contamination Specialist) under the EIANZ scheme. She has a bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences, Geology (BA) from University of Cambridge, UK and a PhD (in geochemistry) from the University of Leeds, UK. With over 30 years’ experience in contaminated land and waste management consulting, Sophie has specialised in risk assessment for much of this time.

Prior to joining UTS in 2022, Sophie was a partner with ERM for 13 years. She was the lead author in the 2013 NEPM Schedules B4 (Site-specific risk Assessment) and B7 (Health-based Investigation Levels) and has worked on many major contaminated site projects including the Barangaroo site gasworks remediation, the remediation of the gasworks beneath the new Sydney Metro station at Central Station and for Western Sydney Airport. She is passionate about high quality teaching and learning and loves working with students to help them get the maximum benefit from their studies.

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This one-day module aims to provide Council officers with the skills to efficiently and effectively review consultant contaminated land reports. It covers the stages of contaminated land investigation, remediation planning and execution, site validation and management, and is suitable for those with some experience in contaminated land.

About this course

Contaminated Sites Management and Regulation (CSMR) Module 2: Investigation, Remediation and Reporting will allow you to improve your ability to determine whether consultant reports contain sufficient good quality information for you to make the decisions you need to. This course will provide you with clarity on the reporting elements that really matter, at each stage of the contaminated land process.

By the end of this course, you will be able to decide with confidence whether reports are adequate, and what additional information you may require.

Key benefits of this course

This short course has been designed to allow participants to:

  • Know what to expect a consultant to provide in preliminary and detailed site investigation reports
  • Be able to source appropriate State and National guideline documents to refer to when reviewing consultant reports
  • Understand the meaning of conceptual site models
  • Be familiar with the application of guideline concentration values for contaminants in soils, groundwaters, soil gases/vapours and surface waters
  • Understand what a site-specific risk assessment is for and what decisions it can support
  • Be able to describe some common remediation methods and the validation approaches that should be adopted for them
  • Know what should be in an environmental management plan
  • Know how to efficiently review consultant reports and when to require further information.

Satisfactory completion of this course:

Digital badge and certificate

A digital badge and certificate will be awarded following the successful completion of any necessary tasks or assessments to demonstrate acquired learning of the short course or for meeting attendance and/or participation requirements.

Learn more about UTS Open digital badges.

Price

Full price: $700 (GST free)*

*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase. 

Additional discounts for multiple module/learner CSMR enrolments and EHA/ALGA members are available for this course. For further details, please check the Discounts section under Additional course information.

Payment on invoice requests must be paid in full and reconciled by our Finance team before you can access your online course materials. Please make sure your invoice payments reference the UTS Open invoice number. You should also forward remittance advice to support@open.uts.edu.au for more efficient reconciliation.

Information about this course series

This course is module 2 of 3 in a series of Practical Contaminated Sites Management and Regulation (CSMR) courses with UTS. For maximum benefit, we recommend completing all three modules in the series:

Enrolment conditions

Course purchase is subject to UTS Open Terms and Conditions. 

COVID-19 response 

UTS complies with latest Government health advice. Delivery of all courses complies with the UTS response to COVID-19.

Additional course information

Course outline

This is an online only, full-day short course that provides stand-alone training in consultancy report review. It can be taken as a single day course, or in combination with Modules 1 and 3 of the series. It is presented in lectures and workshops with a focus on interactivity and learning by doing.

The day will include at least four different guest presenters who are recognised experts in their organisations, and will be representatives of contaminated land consultancies, NSW Site Auditors and Councils with particular expertise and experience in contaminated land issues in a local government context. The day will be facilitated by the Course Coordinator.

Course content

The following content will be covered during the course:

  • Appropriate contents of preliminary and detailed site investigation reports, remediation action plans, validation reports and long-term environmental management plans
  • Conceptual site models
  • Techniques for reviewing data
  • How report conclusions should be justified with evidence
  • Basic principles of risk assessment and what can be determined from it
  • Remediation methods and suitability
  • Long term management plans and when to accept them.

Delivery details

Topics will be explained in lectures lasting between 30mins and 90mins, with opportunities for questions and discussion. Presenters will share slides, and other visual material via Zoom. Each session will include exercises for you to complete, to consolidate your learning and practice the skills you have learned. 

Typical exercises will include group work to solve problems, group discussions around common issues and exercises where you may be asked to annotate drawings, perform calculations or answer questions. These exercises are for learning and are not part of the optional assessment.

Resources and pre-reading

Our UTS Open learning platform, Canvas, provides course summary information, contact details and profiles of all the presenters. It also hosts the lecture and workshop notes and slides, a reading list and useful links to appropriate resources. The Canvas site will be available prior to the course commencement and will remain available to participants for several months after course completion.

Learning objectives

On successful completion of this course, participants should have an understanding of:

  • The elements of consultant reports that are most critical for decision-making
  • Methods for identifying report deficiencies
  • The technical basis investigation and remediation methods
  • How to interpret and check contaminated land data.

Requirements

Mandatory

  • To complete this online course, you will need a personal computer with adequate internet access and sufficient software and bandwidth to support web conferencing. You will also require an operating system with a web browser compatible with CanvasZoom and Microsoft Teams.

Discounts

Discounts are available for this course as follows:

  • 2 module or 2 learner CSMR enrolments: 10% discount
  • 3 module or 3 learner CSMR enrolments: 15% discount
  • Environmental Health Australia (EHA) and the Australasian Land and Groundwater Association member (ALGA) single module: 3% discount
  • EHA and ALGA member two module/learner CSMR enrolments: 13% discount
  • EHA and ALGA member three module/learner CSMR enrolments: 18% discount.

Discounts cannot be combined and only one discount can be applied per person per course session. Discounts can only be applied to the full price. Discounts cannot be applied to any offered special price.

How to obtain your discount code

Please email sophieann.wood@uts.edu.au with either:

  • Details of your 2+ module/learner CSMR enrolments
  • Your EHA/ALGA professional association membership number and details of your 2+ module/learner enrolments if applicable.

How to apply your discount code 

  • Add this course to your cart. 
  • Click on "View Cart" (blue shopping trolley at top right of screen). You will need to sign in or sign up to UTS Open.  
  • Enter your eligible code beneath the "Have a discount code?" prompt and click on the blue "Apply" button. 
  • Verify your discount code has been successfully applied before clicking on the blue "Proceed to checkout" button.  

Contact us

For any questions regarding enrolment or payment, please email support@open.uts.edu.au 

For any questions about course content, delivery, or progression, please email Sophie Wood - sophieann.wood@uts.edu.au

Who is this course for?

This course is suitable for:

  • Planning officers
  • Environmental health officers
  • Council contaminated land specialists
  • Council land managers
  • Private certifiers
  • Lawyers
  • Ecologists and landscape architects
  • Emergency services land managers
  • Infrastructure and traffic engineers.

 

Note: No previous knowledge of contaminated land is necessary to take this course, however, it is recommended that those without some knowledge complete CSMR Module 1: Contaminated Land Principles in combination with this course for maximum benefit.

Book a session

Thu 20 Feb 2025-
Thu 20 Feb 2025
Expert: Dr Sophie Wood
  • Online via Zoom. Click on the underlined sessions and hours total link below to reveal specific session details.
  • Online
  • 1 session, 8.5 hours total

Enrolments close 17 February 2025 at 11.59pm AEDT, or when all places have been filled, whichever occurs first. Note that invoices must be paid in full and reconciled by our Finance team before you can access your online course materials.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.

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