Competency going to waste

9th March 2011


NQA's Catherine Golds and Max Linnemann tell IEMA about the the assessment body's new waste management standard.

Much is made of personal and professional competency in the environmental profession. Employers are, quite rightly, told that to employ individual practitioners who have been recognised as “profession

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