All business activities will impact on the environment to some degree and in order to manage and minimise this, it is important to understand the ecological risks associated with those activities. To achieve this effectively, it is important to have both the ability to measure or predict any impact on the environment and to utilise this information to assess the risks for the business. Our skills in monitoring and data interpretation, coupled with an understanding of business drivers and regulations, ensure that we are ideally placed to undertake risk assessments of this type.
Applications
Control of Major Accident Hazards. COMAH.
Integrated pollution prevention control. IPPC.
Assessing the risk of activities to protected sites, features and organisms (e.g. SSSI, SAC, SPA and RAMSAR sites).
Assessing impacts of unplanned releases (eg MATTE).
Environmental risk associated with development and construction.
Environmental Impact Assessments.
Environmental permitting.
Direct Toxicity Assessment of effluent discharges. DTA.
Design and Implementation of Ecological Monitoring and Risk Assessment Programmes
Realistic exposure scenarios based on ecological data and site-specific use.
Collection of valid site-specific chemical and toxicological data.
Collection of ecological field data in freshwater, marine and terrestrial systems.
Design and implementation of ecological community and population monitoring programmes.
Sampling and analysis of environmental contaminants.
Prediction of the Fate and Effects of Chemicals
Toxicity and fate information.
Exposure prediction incorporating physico-chemical and biological processes.
Ecological effects modelling incorporating prediction of effects on populations.
