If you intend to conduct site and soil assessments, design onsite sewage management systems (OSMS) and/or service wastewater treatment systems (AWTS) within the Byron Shire, you are required to be a suitably qualified person.
Submit the request form, along with supporting documentation outlined below to be included on the Suitable Qualified Person register.
Request to be listed as a Suitably Qualified Person
Explanatory notes
Byron Shire Council is creating a list of suitably qualified people who can demonstrate their ability to conduct site and soil assessments, design or service OSMS that include aerated wastewater treatment systems (AWTS). The list will be made available to the public as part of standard communications involving the installation, alteration, or servicing of OSSM systems. Businesses make a voluntary decision to be included on the list.
Definition - Suitably Qualified Person:
A person possessing adequate qualifications, such as suitable training and sufficient knowledge, experience and skill, for the performance of the specific work.
OSMS Site and Soil Assessor and Designer Criteria:
1. Completion of appropriate course conducted by a registered training organisation;
- Centre for Environmental Training - Course in On-Site Wastewater Management; or
- Skills Tech Australia (QLD TAFE) – Course in Domestic Wastewater and Environmental Plumbing (Licence to Design on site disposal areas); or
- Other equivalent courses and qualifications that will be assessed on a case-by-case basis; and
2. Public Liability ($10 million) and Professional Indemnity ($1 million) insurance is to be held, and the insurance certificate of currency must cover designing on-site sewage management systems.
AWTS Service Agent Criteria:
1. Completion of an appropriate AWTS servicing training course conducted by a registered training organisation;
- Centre for Environmental Training – Course in Aerated Wastewater Treatment Systems Servicing and Maintenance; or
- Skills Tech Australia (QLD TAFE) - Course in Domestic Wastewater and Environmental Plumbing (Licence to Service and Maintain); or
- Other equivalent courses and qualifications that will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
2. Minimum six months experience servicing AWTS systems – provide proof of servicing experience and detail the type of systems serviced (provide letter from trainer/mentor and state their qualifications and experience);
3. Confirmation in writing from each AWTS manufacturer (for the types of systems that you intend to service) that you have attended in-house training, where offered, which has provided you with sufficient knowledge into the operational and servicing requirements for each particular system; and
4. Public liability insurance ($10 million).
Note: All electrical work is to be performed by a qualified, experienced licenced electrical contractor and in accordance with appropriate electrical regulations and Australian Standards.