Kewan Bond Pty Ltd provides services in various other areas of environmental management such as:
- Water management
- Environmental auditing
- Environmental approvals
- Risk management
- Environmental management systems
Water Management
Climate variability, climate change and drought are highlighting the importance of water management, use/efficiency and treatment. Kewan Bond Pty Ltd provides water management services to assist clients to strategically manage the risk associated with these changes. Kewan Bond Pty Ltd specialises in developing Water Management Strategies and implementation plans for the resources sector to manage this emerging risk. Kewan Bond Pty Ltd, provides the following services:
- Identification of water management risks and opportunities
- Development of Water Management Strategy
- Development of Implementation Plan
- Water balance
- Watershed whole of catchment approach
- Water management associated with mine closure
Sustainability Reporting
Kewan Bond Pty Ltd has extensive experience assisting clients improve their Corporate Responsibility/Sustainability Reporting. Kewan Bond Pty Ltd can offer the following services:
- Facilitate the collection and verification of data, and reviews of the systems and processes for these tasks
- Review and analysis of Corporate Sustainability Reports to identify areas of improvement in operations and in report quality
- Assurance of sustainability data and other publicly disclosed data to ensure accuracy
- Interpretation and conversion of raw data into useful information for decision making and strategic purposes
- Benchmarking analysis against other companies to provide valuable insight into existing performance and scope for improvement compared to peers
- Suggest content improvements to improve score and ranking compared to peers
- Corporate Responsibility reporting may include GRI, DJSI, CDP, CDP Water and other company sustainability reports
- Alignment with parallel reporting requirements (eg NGERS, NPI) to ensure efficiency, data accuracy and consistency
Risk Management
Kewan Bond Pty Ltd combines technical expertise and practical experience in assisting clients assess risks in a variety of real-world decision-making contexts, specialising in the key areas of Climate Change and Energy, Mine Closure, and Environmental and Sustainability. We offer services in the following areas:
- Risk management, assessment and risk prioritisation
- Climate Change risk assessments eg regulatory/legal, political, financial risk aspects
- Mine Closure risk analysis eg landform stability, ARD potential, financial, legal risk
- Environmental and sustainability risk eg water, approvals, legal compliance, EMS/IMS
- Social risk analysis and stakeholder engagement
Environmental Approvals
Kewan Bond Pty Ltd can offer Environmental Approvals services in the following areas:
- Referrals and Assessments under the Commonwealth Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
- Documents associated with the environmental impact assessment process (Part IV of the Environmental Protection Act 1986), such as referral documents, environmental scoping documents (ESD), public environmental reviews (PER)
- Works Approvals and Operating Licenses under Part V of the WA Environmental Protection Act 1986
- Mining Proposals under the WA Mining Act 1978
- Clearing permits and ongoing management and reporting requirements
- Offset proposals and associated implementation, management and reporting
- Preparation of management plans to the satisfaction of a particular regulator (e.g. local council)
- Completion of various licence applications
- Public consultation, reporting and government liaison
Environmental Management Systems
Kewan Bond Pty Ltd can offer Environmental Management services in the following areas:
- Development and/or review of Environmental Management Plans and Procedures
- Development and/or review of Environmental Management Systems in accordance with ISO14000
Environmental Auditing
Kewan Bond Pty Ltd are able to provide expert advice with respect to the identification, assessment and management of environmental conditions with a view to improving environmental performance. We are experienced in, and can offer, the following types of auditing:
- Compliance Audits: assess compliance with environmental licences, approvals, regulatory requirements, industry codes of practice, company guidelines and environmental policies.
- Environmental Management System Audits: assess the implementation and effectiveness of management systems and management plans in managing the environmental impact of a company’s operations.
- Mine Closure Liability Auditing: assess the implementation and effectiveness of Mine Closure Plans, with the aim of determining the appropriate financial liability associates with the mining operation (refer to Mine Closure Management for more details).
- Energy Efficiency Auditing: facilitation of energy efficiency audits and the assessment/implementation of audit recommendations (refer to Energy and Carbon Management for more details).