Esher Environmental Services
Principles and values
Our principles stem from our twin core values of honouring God and serving others. As such, we try to maintain the highest professional, ethical and technical standards in all that we do – to the benefit of clients and the community.
Our principles include:
- Integrity and ethics
- Workplace and site safety
- Duty of care
- Personalized service
- Technical excellence
- Care for the community and the environment
- Leadership and innovation
- Responsibility and accountability
- Respect for clients, regulators and colleagues
Duty of care
Esher Environmental Services supports and practises the ‘duty of care’ principle, as exemplified in the South Australian EPA (2015) Guidelines for the site contamination audit system:
The EPA considers that, while auditors are engaged by their client and are subject to contractual obligations, auditors have a broader primary duty of care as, in exercising their duties, auditors have to take into account the Objects of the Act and the aims of the audit system.
In exercising their function and duties pursuant to the Environment Protection Act 1993, auditors must demonstrate a primary duty of care to the health and safety of the people of South Australia above all others (including any duty to the person who has commissioned them to conduct the audit). Auditors must also demonstrate a duty of care to ensure the protection of the environment of South Australia.
Name
The name ‘Esher’ is the Biblical Hebrew word (אֶשֶׁר esher), which means ‘blessed’ or ‘happy’, and occurs over 40 times in the Bible, particularly in the Book of Psalms. Our aim is that Esher Environmental Services will be a ‘blessing’ to the clients we serve, and to the community in which we live.
Adrian Hall, Director
Adrian Hall, Founder and Director of Esher Environmental Services, is an EPA accredited Site Contamination Auditor with unparalleled auditing experience in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, ACT and Northern Territory, gained over a period of more than 20 years. His knowledge of local conditions, and his relationship with key staff at the EPAs and with environmental consultants, can be used to benefit a wide range of audit projects and clients.
Adrian graduated from Cambridge University in 1977 and has over 42 years’ professional experience, focusing on site contamination auditing, waste management and water engineering. Accredited by the South Australian, Victorian and New South Wales EPAs, he has undertaken more than 300 audits for both government and private clients.
Adrian has also conducted health and environmental risk assessments of contaminated sites, together with soil and groundwater remediation projects, and he has audited or assessed a variety of industrial, commercial and agricultural sites contaminated by a range of chemical substances including heavy metals, petroleum and chlorinated hydrocarbons, pesticides and asbestos.
MA (Cambridge) Engineering; BA (Hons) Engineering; Diploma in Education; Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia; Member of the Australasian Land & Groundwater Association; Site Contamination Auditor (SA EPA); Environmental Auditor (EPA Victoria); Site Auditor (NSW EPA)