Contaminated Land Management Guidelines No. 3 - Risk Screening System
February 2004, ME502
This guideline describes the background to and use of the Risk Screening System (RSS). The system aims to provide a nationally consistent means of ranking sites that are, or are suspected of being, contaminated, using readily available information, regardless of location and who is carrying out the assessment. The purpose of ranking a site is usually so that it may be prioritised for further investigation.
The RSS is a simplified version of the Ministry for the Environment’s Rapid Hazard Assessment System, published in 1993 (out of print).
To enable rapid analyses the RSS is performed on the RSS template,
either by hand or in a spreadsheet. The electronic RSS template can
be downloaded and
is included as a companion to the document.
Availability:
- Read online (HTML)
- Download PDF (452 KB)
- Download RSS template (Excel spreadsheet, 142 KB) (updated May 2007)
- Printed copies (including the CD ROM) free from the Ministry for
the Environment
(email orders@mfe.govt.nz)
