Southern Cross Operations Annual Environmental Report 2008 - 2009

2009 Annual Environmental ReportSouthern Cross Operations7. Environmental ManagementA corporate level review of staffing requirements at SXO resulted in a restructure of theenvironmental department in December 2008 (Figure 7-1). The roles of EnvironmentalAdvisor and Graduate Environmental Officer have been made redundant, with supportnow provided to the Environmental Coordinator by the Manager Environment,Corporate Environmental Advisor and Corporate Graduate Environmental Officerbased in West Perth.General Manager SouthernCross OperationsManager - EnvironmentEnvironmental CoordinatorFigure 7-1: Current Structure of the Environmental Function at SXO7.1 Environmental IncidentsThere were 24 incidents during the reporting period (Figure 7-2). The most commonincident type during 2008/2009 was hydrocarbon releases (14 occurrences). Othernotable incident types were process water spills (2 occurrences), chemical handling (2occurrences) and tailings freeboard breaches (2 occurrences). Most hydrocarbonleaks, saline water and tailings spills were due to equipment failure. In all hydrocarboncases the equipment was repaired and the spills were appropriately cleaned up. In allprocess water, tailings and saline water spills the faulty equipment was upgraded andrepaired, the spills were appropriately cleaned up and all relevant personnel werebriefed on the incident to prevent reoccurrences. All incidents recorded at SXO during2008/2009 are summarised in Table 7-1.33