Preliminary Risk Screening Assessments (PRSA)
Under the (repealed) Environment Protection Act 1970, environmental audits were a one-size-fits-all assessment process that sometimes involved unnecessarily detailed investigation and excessive costs. Now a more flexible process has been established under the new Environment Protection Act 2017. Hence, the introduction of the Preliminary Risk Screen Assessment (PRSA).
The benefits of the PRSA include:
Rapid, low-cost based on desktop study and site inspection, which may include sampling.
To determine whether a detailed environmental audit is necessary. A PRSA cannot determine whether a site is suitable for a particular use; only an environmental audit has this function.
