Webinar - PFAS 101: Introduction to Everyone’s Favourite Emerged Contaminant

Emerging Professionals Specialist Interest Group Event

Introduction to PFAS from three different industry perspectives (regulatory, consultancy, and laboratory/analysis).

PFAS is an important and popular topic in the industry, following it’s status of an emerged contaminant and the evolution of our understanding of PFAS. This webinar will provide emerging professionals throughout the industry with the fundamentals of PFAS, to enable them to better understand this contaminant and how it is currently managed from different industry sectors.

This webinar will provide a “101” on what you need to know about PFAS, covering off all bases across the industry, and aims to provide a solid foundational understanding of PFAS for those who are new to the industry or may have limited experience with this contaminant of concern. This webinar will show how PFAS is approached from a regulatory stand point, how consultants have dealt with PFAS, and the ways that lab analysis of PFAS sets it apart from other contaminants of concern.

Our speakers

Ryan Stewart,
Aurecon

Ryan is a Manager in Aurecon’s Queensland Environment and Planning team whose primary experience is consulting and managing projects in the contaminated land and adjacent environmental spaces. Ryan’s experience encompasses the eastern coast of Australia where he has worked across aviation, industrial, up/down-stream energy, linear infrastructure, Defence, in construction environmental management, compliance, and verification, and as a contaminated land Auditor’s assistant.

Dr Bill Richmond,
Western Australian Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER)

Dr Bill Richmond is Principal Environmental Officer of the Contaminated Sites Branch at the Western Australian Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER). Bill currently provides expert advice and guidance on the assessment and management of PFAS contamination within government and to external stakeholders. As a member of the National Chemicals Working Group of HEPA, Bill has contributed to the guidance in the PFAS National Environmental Management Plan since its development was commenced in 2017.