Module 5 - VicForests

• The technical skills and experience of the proposed audit team members, in
relation to the following:
◦ Forestry, Forest Science, Natural Resource Management or a related discipline;
◦ Ecology and Victorian vascular and non-vascular flora;
◦ Soils and Erosion;
• Conflicts of interest (actual or perceived); and
• Value for money.
3.2 AUDITOR ENGAGEMENT
Once an environmental Auditor is engaged by DSE to conduct the audit program
pursuant to section 53V of the Environment Protection Act 1970, the Auditor is
required to notify the EPA’s Manager Environmental Audit within seven days of
receiving the appointment.
Notification of a request to prepare an environmental audit report can be made using
the notification form available from the forms section of the EPA website
(www.epa.vic.gov.au/Forms).
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