Environment
Environmental Impact Assessment
A programme in the stages of an environmental impact assessment for projects and the preparation of its report: screening and scoping, baseline studies, identifying and predicting impacts and assessing their significance, mitigation measures, and the environmental management and monitoring plan, within the framework of the Environmental Law and its implementing regulations in Saudi Arabia.
Overview
About the programme
Duration
5 days
Delivery
Training hall · Virtual · At your premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
Training outcomes
- Understand the purpose of environmental impact assessment and its place in the project cycle and in environmental permit requirements.
- Apply the stages of the study: screening, scoping, baseline studies and analysis of alternatives.
- Identify and predict environmental and social impacts and assess their significance using matrices, checklists and modelling.
- Propose mitigation measures according to the mitigation hierarchy and prepare the environmental management and monitoring plan.
- Write and review the study report, and organise stakeholder consultation.
Content
What the programme covers
Day 1: framework and concepts
- The concept, objectives and principles of environmental impact assessment, and how it differs from strategic environmental assessment and environmental auditing.
- The regulatory framework in Saudi Arabia: the Environmental Law and its implementing regulations, the role of the National Center for Environmental Compliance in environmental permits, and the classification of projects by the degree of their environmental impact.
- International references for assessment practice, such as the environmental and social performance standards of international finance institutions.
Day 2: screening, scoping and the baseline
- Screening and scoping: activities, spatial and temporal boundaries, and valued environmental components.
- Baseline studies: air quality and noise, surface water and groundwater, soil, biodiversity, the socio-economic environment and cultural heritage.
- Designing the field survey and sampling programme, and secondary data sources.
Day 3: identifying impacts and assessing significance
- Identifying impacts during construction, operation and closure; direct, indirect and cumulative impacts.
- Prediction tools: checklists, interaction matrices, network diagrams, and air dispersion and noise models.
- Significance criteria: magnitude, extent, duration, reversibility and receptor sensitivity.
Day 4: mitigation, management and monitoring
- The mitigation hierarchy: avoid, minimise, restore and offset; analysis of alternatives.
- The environmental management and monitoring plan: measures, responsibilities, indicators, monitoring frequency and reporting.
- Stakeholder consultation and disclosure, and handling comments.
Day 5: the report, review and assessment
- The structure of the environmental impact assessment report, the content of each chapter, and the non-technical summary.
- Reviewing study quality: a reviewer’s checklist and common errors.
- Workshop: preparing an impact matrix and a management and monitoring plan for a hypothetical project and presenting them, followed by the assessment.
Who it is for
Target audience
Environmental specialists in consultancies, project engineers and managers, and environmental staff in industrial facilities and government bodies who prepare or review studies.
Method
Delivery method
Short lectures, case studies from industrial and development projects, and successive group exercises on a single hypothetical project on which every stage of the study is built. The regulatory content follows the texts in force at the time of delivery. Delivered in person in the hall or at the organisation’s premises, or virtually, in Arabic or English.
Questions
FAQ
What experience is the programme built on?
It is built on the daily practice of Technology Experts Co., the centre’s parent company, which holds Class A accreditation from the National Center for Environmental Compliance for environmental studies and whose teams prepare impact assessments, management and monitoring plans and compliance audits.
Does the programme qualify participants to prepare studies before the competent authorities?
No. The programme builds the knowledge and skills to prepare and review studies; it does not confer any qualification or classification with the competent authorities.
Does the programme follow the latest regulations?
Yes. The regulatory content is updated to the texts in force at the time of delivery, including the Environmental Law, its implementing regulations and environmental permit requirements.
A programme tailored to your organisation
The duration and topics of the programme are adjusted to the organisation's needs, and it is delivered at its site, in a training hall arranged by the Center, or virtually.