Victorian Consolidated Regulations Victorian Consolidated RegulationsAn environment management plan must contain an implementation strategy that—
(a) includes measures to ensure that the performance objectives and standards in the environment management plan are met; and
(b) identifies the specific systems, practices and procedures to be used to ensure that any risks to the following arising from the operations are eliminated or minimised so far as is reasonably practicable––
(i) the environment;
(ii) any member of the public, land or property in the vicinity of the operation;
(iii) any relevant geothermal energy or geothermal energy resource that the operation may affect; and
(c) identifies the specific systems, practices and procedures to be used to ensure that the performance objectives and standards in the environment management plan are met; and
(d) includes measures to ensure that each employee or contractor working in connection with the geothermal energy operation—
(i) is aware of the employee's or contractor's responsibilities in relation to the environment, any member of the public, land or property in the vicinity of the operation; and
(ii) is aware of the employee's or contractor's responsibilities in relation to any geothermal energy or geothermal energy resource that the operation might affect; and
(iii) has the appropriate skills and training to be able to fulfil those responsibilities; and
(e) provides for the monitoring and audit of the performance of the holder of the authority in relation to meeting the performance objectives and standards set out in the environment management plan; and
(f) provides for review of the implementation strategy; and
(g) provides for the maintenance of an accurate quantitative record of emissions and discharges into the air, onto the land surface environment or below the land surface environment that can be monitored and audited against the performance standards; and
(h) includes arrangements for recording, monitoring and reporting information about the geothermal energy operation (including information required to be recorded under the Act, the regulations and any other environmental legislation applying to the activity) sufficient to enable the Minister to determine whether there is compliance with the environment management plan; and
(i) includes procedures to ensure that details of all reportable incidents and recordable incidents are recorded and kept so that they may be made available to an inspector exercising a power under the Act; and
(j) provides for appropriate consultation, ongoing for the duration of the operation, about the holder of the authority's performance with—
(i) relevant agencies of the Commonwealth and the State; and
(ii) other relevant interested people and organisations; and
(k) provides for the maintenance of an up‑to‑date emergency response manual that includes detailed response arrangements for—
(i) dealing with any threat to the environment, to any member of the public, to land or to property in the vicinity of the geothermal energy operation and to any geothermal energy or geothermal energy resource that the operation might affect; and
(ii) ensuring that the threat does not harm anything or any person referred to in subparagraph (i).