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What is the best way to do your NPI report?
There are many steps involved in successfully preparing
and submitting a report to the NPI. Here are some of the main ones which
I have gleaned from many years of helping companies prepare NPI reports.
Some of these steps may not be relevant for your company, however I present
them anyway for your consideration:
- At the start of the NPI Reporting Period for your
company, go to the NPI website and
download and read the latest version of the NPI Guide and any other
publications that have been published since you previously visited the
NPI website. Please contact me (peter@NPIplus.com.au)
if you require clarification about anything that is not clear; or contact
the relevant state environment agency here.
- During the Reporting Period, collect information on
a monthly or quarterly basis so that at the end of the Reporting Period
you have all the information you require. An important advantage of
collecting information on a continuous and ongoing basis is that any
issues or questions from the people collecting the data can be dealt
with early on, rather than after the Reporting Period ends, when it
may be too late to make corrections to the way information is gathered.
- Immediately after the NPI Reporting Period for your
company has ended, go to the NPI website
again and download and read the latest updated version of the NPI Guide
and any other publications that may have been published (or updated)
since you last visited. Please contact me (peter@NPIplus.com.au)
if you require clarification or assistance to prepare your NPI report.
Please contact me early in the first month after your Reporting Period
ends so that I will have sufficient time to help you.
- If the information required to prepare the NPI report
has not been collected on an ongoing basis during the Reporting Period,
the first month after the Reporting Period ends (that is, the month
of July for Financial Year Reporters or January for Calendar Year Reporters)
should be set aside to identify who within (or outside) your organisation
can provide relevant information and getting most of that information
entered into a spreadsheet or documented in some other way.
- The second month after the Reporting Period ends,
should be seen as the "report calculation and getting final data
gaps filled" month.
- The third month after the Reporting Period ends, is
when internal and external people review the report and, if necessary,
further information gathering is done based on feedback. Aim to get
the final review done by about the middle of the third month so you
have time to enter the information into the NPI Online Reporting Portal
and still go back and look at and amend your calculations and information
analysis if the portal brings up issues not previously considered.
- If you also do National
Energy and Greenhouse Reporting (NGER), please double check that
any information reported to Government in NPI is consistent with information
reported to Government in NGER (if the reporting periods are the same).
Information that is usually common includes electricity usage as well
as on-site usages of diesel, natural gas, LPG, petrol and other fuels
used to calculate if the facility exceeds the Category 2a or 2b fuel
usage thresholds.
Please don't tell anyone but I actually enjoy doing NPI reports! If you find doing NPI reports not so interesting, please contact me right away to get assistance ... and hear the latest NPI gossip!
News item added 31 October 2009, by Peter Eriksen
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