Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2013C00288:reg:8:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2013C00288
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 3133967–3137098

8                   Glossary
Community engagement is the process of communicating and deliberating with the community and other stakeholders. It can include a variety of project-specific approaches:
Inform       one-way communication or delivery of information
Consult      providing for ongoing public feedback
Involve      a two-way process to ensure community concerns are considered as part of the decision-making process
Collaborate  developing partnerships with the community to make recommendations
Empower      allowing the community to make decisions and to implement and manage change.

Community means those individuals and/or groups residing in the locality where a site assessment is to be conducted and who may be affected by the assessment and/or possible site contamination physically (for example, through risks to health or the environment, loss of amenity) or non-physically (for example, via concern about possible contamination).
Contamination means the condition of land or water where any chemical substance or waste has been added as a direct result or indirect result of human activity at above background level and represents, or potentially represents, an adverse health or environmental impact.
EPA means the relevant environment protection authority or equivalent agency responsible for the regulation and management of contaminated land.
Exposure occurs when a chemical, physical or biological agent makes contact with the human body through breathing, skin contact or ingestion; for example, contaminants in soil, water and air.
Hazard is the intrinsic capacity of a chemical, biological, physical or social agent to produce a particular type of adverse health or ecological effect.
Community engagement consultant means an appropriately skilled professional employed to develop and implement the community engagement and risk communication plan.
Remediation means the clean-up or mitigation of pollution or of contamination of soil or water by various methods.
Risk assessment means the process of estimating the potential impact of a chemical, physical, microbiological or social hazard on a specified human population or ecosystem under a specific set of conditions within a certain timeframe.
Risk communication means an interactive process involving the exchange among individuals, groups and institutions of information and expert opinion about the nature, severity and acceptability of risks and the decisions to be taken to combat them. Risk communication is delivered most efficiently in the context of a well-structured community engagement process.
Risk management means the decision-making process to analyse and compare the range of options for site management and select the appropriate response to a potential health or environmental hazard. It may involve considerations of political, social, economic, environmental and engineering factors.
Risk means the probability in a certain timeframe that an adverse outcome will occur in a person, group, or ecological system that is exposed to a particular dose or concentration of a hazardous agent; that is, it depends on both the level of