How to Change the World. Clare Feeney

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more comprehensive erosion and sediment control guideline. TP90³⁰ was a significant step change for the industry and gave an added boost to the training program.

      The industry was widely consulted during the preparation of the TP90 guideline. The ARC gave notice that it had made a significant investment in helping the industry meet the new standards by preparing a new guideline, delivering training and providing ongoing annual workshops and newsletters – and that it would be up to the industry to perform, or appropriate enforcement would follow. Over the following years, vigorous enforcement action by the Council sent a clear signal to the industry about the desired performance standard.

      Several thousand contractors and consultants have now attended their respective one- and two-day workshops since TP90 training began in 1995.

A gradual evolution

      By the time Auckland’s TP2 erosion and sediment control guideline had been published in 1992, a number of key elements of today’s program had developed – not with 20:20 foresight and a detailed plan, but as a natural development over the years.

      The key elements were:

      

scientific research that had defined the nature and scale of the erosion and sediment control problem; subsequently, small applied research projects began to evaluate the effectiveness of existing and new control measures

      

a policy framework that set out how the ARC, as the environmental regulator, would manage erosion and sediment control

      

a regulatory framework that required land developers to apply for environmental authorizations, thus enabling the ARC to impose a legal requirement for developers and their agents to install erosion and sediment controls

      

a technical guideline in the form of TP2, prepared to help contractors on big construction sites to build the measures required to control erosion and sediment runoff

      

an education program to address the lack of industry awareness of the new technical standards for erosion and sediment control. Although informal, it consisted of several newsletters and one or two seminars every year, involving service providers, councils, consultants and contractors, and these were well received by the industry

      

an industry liaison group, initially comprising the original focus group, that provided a forum for airing issues between regulators and regulated and that enabled other issues and opportunities to be discussed informally.

      With the introduction in 1999 of TP90, the more detailed technical guideline to help people comply with the policy and regulations, the Auckland erosion and sediment control program progressively added new elements, including:

      

the provision of regular training workshops on erosion and sediment control:

      

a two-day workshop for plan preparers: these are the project design consultants who prepare erosion and sediment control plans, apply for resource consents for the works, and instruct contractors on behalf of the client

      

a one-day workshop for plan implementers: these are the contractors who do the work on site and build, maintain and decommission the erosion and sediment controls

      

the provision of a number of related training workshops (more on these in Chapter 4)

      

an annual stormwater and sediment field day and a separate annual forestry field day where new technologies are demonstrated and both the ARC and industry present new findings

      

production of regular electronic newsletters, information leaflets and posters

      

the engagement of external independent consultants to support the specialist team at the ARC by carrying out on-site inspections of erosion and sediment controls

      

strong enforcement in cases of non-compliance with environmental requirements.

      All these elements had evolved within a context of informal on-site engagement and more formal forums of engagement with the construction industry.

      Together over time, they were to build the capacity of the wider industry in Auckland and other parts of New Zealand in a way that exceeded the wildest hopes of the erosion and sediment control program’s original founders.

Go to Action Sheets 1.1 and 1.2 to start looking at the training programs you already have or want to create, and to start building your creative ideas.

       CHAPTER 2

       The 7-Step Model: Core Elements of a Successful Environmental Training Program

      Remember, in the end, nobody wins unless everyone wins.

      Bruce Springsteen

      Effective environmental management programs comprise a number of elements that support each other. Training is only one of them.

      This section groups the elements listed in Chapter 1 into seven steps. The steps aren’t necessarily sequential, but they do need to be mutually reinforcing, as Figure 3 shows.

      The examples given for each step are, again, drawn from Auckland’s erosion and sediment control program to illustrate the general principles of the seven steps, but the steps apply to any environmental training program.

      In Chapter 3, I’ll give examples of other environmental programs to give you more food for thought in the worksheet and mindmap pages that follow, including:

      

a US-based erosion and sediment control training program

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