Compliance policy and guidelines

Compliance policies and guidelines

The compliance team carries out a range of activities to make sure companies are meeting the strict conditions placed on their projects. This includes:

• carrying out spot checks and unannounced visits to projects, including surveillance;
• carrying out audits;
• meetings with the community and industry to understand issues; and
• investigating complaints.

If a company is found to have breached its conditions, our compliance officers take enforcement and other actions including:

• prosecution for the most serious offences;
• issuing fines;
• issuing official cautions; and
• negotiating practical solutions

Our compliance policy and associated guidelines provide information about how we go about our work and help to guide the work of our compliance officers.

Download Compliance Policies and Guidelines

• Compliance Policy (903KB, pdf)
• Prosecution Guidelines (175KB, pdf)
• Enforceable Undertakings Guideline (2.6MB, pdf)
• Remotely Piloted Aircraft Guidelines (133KB, pdf)
• Environmental Representative Protocol (324KB, pdf)
• View Compliance Reporting PAR and Factsheet
• View Independent Audit PAR and Factsheet

Post Approval Timeframes Monthly Tracking*

The Department has introduced a system to record the time taken to review and approve post approval documents. This is in response to feedback from agencies, proponents, community and other stakeholders involved in the post approval phase of State Significant Projects. This feedback has highlighted the need to improve certainty around post approval timeframes.

The Department will publish a monthly summary of the average number of days it takes to review and approve post approval documents. This will allow all stakeholders in the post approval phase of State Significant Projects to better understand the Department's timeframes.

The following table lists the average number of days taken to review and approve these documents each month since June 2018.

*Results as of 8 July 2019

You can also find a summary of the team’s past and present activities under Compliance Activity.