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The team at CETEC would like to remind you that in
Victoria your Cooling
Tower Risk Management Plan (RM Plan) may be due for its annual audit.
A number of national organisations are using the Victorian
legislation as the current best practice model. So those in
other states this may want to benchmark themselves against
Australian best practice. CETEC can inform you further so
please contact us
here.
Your developed RM Plan must have an independent
audit conducted three months prior to re-registration of your
cooling tower system. Audits can only be conducted by someone who has
been certified as an approved auditor by the Victorian Department of
Human Services. To avoid conflicts of interest and ensure
independence, your auditor should not be your water treatment company,
nor the company or individual who performed your Risk Management Assessment
(RM Assessment) or RM Plan.
CETEC has certified auditors, namely:
John Kruiskamp Environmental Engineering Consultant
Dr Vyt Garnys - Managing Director and Principal Consultant
The auditor is not required to visit the site or to inspect the
cooling tower system. The audit is a 'paper audit', limited to
verification that a risk management plan addresses the five critical
risk areas and that it is being implemented in practice (via checking
of copies of records provided to the auditor).
Prior to proceeding to the audit stage, don't forget
to review and
update your RM Plan. This must be done at least once a
year, prior to the audit. This is to ensure that the risks
identified in the original RM Assessment are being treated and that
there is no increase of risk for the cooling tower system. If you
would like assistance in a pre-audit review of your RM Plan, CETEC can assist.
Otherwise, if your RM Assessment and/or RM Plan was
done by CETEC, and you
would like us to recommend a suitable approved auditor, please contact
us
here.
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