The overarching legal principles that apply are due diligence and duty of care. This means that all reasonable steps must be taken to minimise the foreseeable negative impacts of our activities.
All states and territories in Australia have clear laws, regulations, standards and codes of practice that set out the environmental and safety obligations for businesses of all types.
Failure to clean up spill can result in being charged with an offence, fines being issued and possible imprisonment.
To ensure that you are able to address any spills that do occur, you are required to have appropriate equipment to respond safety to a spill incident. The most common spill response item is a spill kit.