Certificate IV in Environmental Monitoring and Technology

This qualification specifies the competencies required to conduct environmental sampling, testing and monitoring in a variety of industries and contexts, including but not limited to:

• Environmental monitoring, sampling and field testing (e.g. air, water, soil and rocks)
• Geotechnical services
• Natural resource management
• Water supply and treatment, and storm and wastewater management
• Solid and hazardous waste management.

This qualification applies to environmental assistants, environmental technicians and similar personnel typically employed by enterprises, service providers, non-government organisations or Commonwealth, state/territory/local governments.

Many of these employees are engaged in the monitoring of environmental impacts at industrial sites. They operate monitoring equipment, collect samples and conduct tests in the field and/or at site laboratories. Other employees may collect a range of field data relating to the suitability of land, levels of water use and similar factors and process and present these data using geographical information systems (GIS) software.