Environmental Compliance '97 is moving to the new Toronto Congress Centre. It will be held in conjunction with the 1997 Ontario Environmental Exposition, a tradeshow organized by Great West Expo Inc., who have ten years experience with environmental shows. Workshop attendees can tour the tradeshow at no extra cost.

The brand new Toronto Congress Centre offers first class conference amenities, free parking, and convenient access to highways 427 and 401. It is located at 650 Dixon Road, immediately opposite the International Plaza Hotel (formerly the Skyline Hotel), and three minutes from Pearson International Airport.

For four years, Environmental Science & Engineering Magazine, and Canadian Environmental Regulation and Compliance News have produced the highly successful Environmental Compliance Conference & Workshops. This annual event has proved to be of great value to professional people with environmental responsibilities, and those concerned with occupational health and safety issues.

We are proud that many Environmental Compliance '96 delegates were repeat attendees; a definite vote of confidence. In fact, this event has become among the best attended of its type in Canada. This year, almost six hundred people attended Environmental Compliance '96.

We hope to see you at Environmental Compliance '97, and would like to point out the 10% early registration discount and 10% registration discount to subscribers of Canadian Environmental Regulation and Compliance News*. Please refer to the following preliminary program for details.

*Discounts cannot be combined

Management - A (four sessions over two days)

ISO: Practical steps towards implementing ISO 14001

• Motivation - Why you need an EMS
• Models of environmental management
• ISO 14000 Series - overview and update
• ISO 14001 - Components
• ISO 14001 - How to implement it
• Policy & Planning to meet objectives
• Implementation and Operation
• Checking and corrective action
• Management review

Spill Management: Contingency planning, reporting and response

• A guide to event reporting
• A guide to planning and preparedness
• Incident management and remediation
• Developing your communications management and media relations plan
• Hiring response and remediation contractors

Regulation & Compliance - B (two sessions in one day)

Environmental regulation & compliance: Focus on the new reforms

• Canada's environmental legislation
• Ontario's environmental legislation
• Environmental Assessment reform
• Legal aspects of approvals reform
• Enforcement strategies in the context of regulatory reform
• Waste Management Reform
• Spills
• Clean-up of contaminated sites

Due Diligence - B (two sessions in one day)

Due Diligence in EH&S Management

(1) - The environmental system

• Corporate liability and due diligence
• The due diligence defence
• Preparing for transactions
• Duly diligent management practices

(2) - The health and safety system

• Occupational health & safety laws and the due diligence defence
• Key components of the Occupational Health and Safety System
• Ensuring a workplace-specific system
• Auditing your OH&S System

Environmental Engineering - C (four sessions over two days)

Site assessment, Decommissioning & Remediation

• Toxic Real Estate and Contaminated Sites, A guide through the regulatory maze
• A new framework - Guideline for professional engineers providing services in Environmental Site Assessment, Remediation and Management
• Phase I ESA: Visual inspections and preparing a report on findings
• Phase II ESA: Field sampling, investigative techniques and laboratory analysis
• Site Remediation and Decommissioning: Planning and Process

"Brownfields" and Ontario's New Decommissioning Guidelines

• Brownfields restoration: The challenges
• Things you will not learn from a quick read of the new Decommissioning Guidelines
• Land use planning - Brownfields and the new Guidelines
• Liabilities associated with contaminated sites
• The "shifting sands" - the devolution of responsibility to municipalities
• 27 steps toward a collective resolution of contaminated soil problems
• Bringing it all together

The training and "Certification" of Environmental Professionals

• Certification of Environmental Site Assessors
• Certification of Environmental Auditors
• Certification of Environmental Management Consultants
• The geoscientists' perspective
• Legal challenges to certification
• Implications of certification for consultants and corporations
• Panel / discussion

Management of under- and above-ground storage tanks

• A compliance overview
• Other substances
• Technical standards for tank management
• Remediation guidelines and technologies
• Insurance issues

Auditing your operations - D (four sessions over two days)

Environmental Health & Safety Auditing - the Complete Course

• Definition, description & uses of environmental audits
• Introduction to the audit process
• The 11-step audit process
• Audit reports and action plans
• Case study and skills practicum: Implementing the audit process at an industrial plant
• Building an audit program
• Advanced and innovative techniques

To reserve you place at the popular Annual Environmental Health & Safety Compliance Conference and Workshops, March 13 & 14, 1997, phone our registration desk at (905) 727-4666 or fill out the form below and mail to ES&E.

Please note, workshop registrations are limited. Please reserve ahead of time.