RISK TO REMEDIATION
Australia’s most comprehensive
training to manage and remediate contaminated sites,
locally and globally
REGISTRATIONS OPEN | Join us in Newcastle, from 2- 6 June 2025.
Join us for our all inclusive 5-day course, to accelerate your knowledge and expertise in site contamination and remediation with industry leading experts.
Location
Newcastle City Hall 290 King Street, NSW, 2300
Build your environmental management expertise.
Knowledge and experiences you can’t Google.
Our Risk-to-Remediation 5-day course has been developed as an interactive, practical and hands-on learning experience, to allow for the development of new skills and capabilities for professionals working within the contaminated land consulting and management practice.
This course will allow you to:
- Gain insights into the latest understandings and knowledge used globally within science, law, policies and case studies.
- Gain new and practical skills to apply to the management and remediation of contaminated sites within Australia
- Accelerate your capabilities and competence to deliver more value to employers, policymakers and cliental.
This course has specifically been developed for individuals who manage, regulate, investigate, remediate or are impacted by contaminated sites. Regardless of your current level of understanding and expertise in this field, our course will provide an enhanced skill set, knowledge growth, networking opportunities and the overall confidence to manage even the most challenging of sites.
Participants will Receive:
- Downloadable Course Handbook / Handouts on USB. Please bring your laptop for daily sessions.
- Certificate of Completion
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credit up to 45 hours* Site Tour / GCER Analytical Labratory Facility at the University of Newcastle (UON)
** Please check with your certification shceme regarding CD points.
Catering will be supplied each day, including morning and afternoon tea and lunch.
Key Presenters
Spend 5 days with world-renowned scientists and industry professionals. Become part of a new Australian network that shares the latest knowledge and skills. Includes site tour and demonstration of the latest field equipment and technologies.
Distinguished Laureate Professor Ravi Naidu
CEO & Managing Director crcCARE
Distinguished Laureate Professor Ravi Naidu is CEO and Managing Director of CRC CARE (formerly the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment) and Founding Director of the Global Centre for Environmental Remediation at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Ravi is the highest cited Australian environmental scientist with his work focusing on the remediation of contaminated soil, water and air, and the potential impacts of contaminants upon environmental and human health at local, national and global levels.
For more than two decades, Ravi has been a global leader in the move to the now widely accepted ‘risk based’ approach to managing contaminated sites. He has also been a leader in the shift to in-situ remediation – cleaning up contamination where it lies, rather than the traditional ‘dig and dump’ approach.
Together, these approaches potentially save industry millions, if not billions, of dollars annually and make clean-up far more feasible and effective. Ravi has been leading PFAS research in Australia since 2004 with this work being sponsored by the Australian Department of Defence and also BHP mining company.
Dr Paul Nathanail
Managing Director,
Land Quality Management Ltd, UK
Paul Nathanail is recognised as one of the world’s leading contaminated land practitioners. Paul is known for a robust, evidence-based approach to resolving problems. He has combined being a University Professor and consultant for some 30 years and is passionate about sharing knowledge.
He has developed the UK’s most widely used soil screening levels, developed toxicological tools to support challenging regulatory decisions, led the drafting of AS ISO 18504:2022, wrote the UK guidance on asbestos in soil and is currently leading the drafting of UK guidance on PFAS in soil and water.
He has worked on several projects in Australia and sits on the ALGA special interest groups on auditors, sustainable remediation and asbestos. He chairs the board of the Specialist in Land Condition Register – the nearest UK equivalent to an auditor.
Paul is currently researching mitigating the effects of climate change and extreme weather events on remediation and reducing the carbon footprint while increasing the social acceptability of remediation. His company, Land Quality Management Ltd, has been using sound science to deliver defensible decisions since 1997.
Mr Scott Warner
Principal Hydrogeologist
Pacific Basin Business Leader
BBJ Group, California, USA
Scott Warner has worked for over 35 years as a consulting hydrogeologist and remediation practitioner with a focus on designing and implementing innovative groundwater clean-up measures. He was a designer for the first full-scale permeable reactive barrier for in situ groundwater remediation – a system that for nearly 30 years continues to perform in removing groundwater contaminants using passive geochemical methods. His work has involved environmental sites throughout North America, Europe and Australia and he has delivered numerous presentations and training courses on environmental remediation in numerous geographies for private, government and academic audiences. Scott also is a doctoral researcher with the University of Newcastle where is focus is on developing an understanding of climatic impact to groundwater remedy design. In addition to his affiliation with the University of Newcastle, Scott has a MS in Geology from Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) and a BS in Engineering Geology from the University of California, Los Angeles (USA).
