ERS helps organisations identify, control and respond to environmental risk before it becomes a regulator issue, project delay, operational disruption or reputational failure.
We work where environmental complexity meets real-world consequence, across regulatory approvals, compliance, environmental crime and investigations, biodiversity, incident response and complex field operations.
Our team combines environmental regulatory and investigative experience with intelligence, specialist training, operational planning and field capability.
We support government, industry and conservation organisations from early risk identification and regulatory strategy through to investigation, incident response and on-ground delivery.
Our Environmental Risk & Resilience approach is practical and risk-based: understand the exposure, establish the controls, test whether they work, and build the capability to respond when they do not.
ERS delivers specialist training for government, enforcement and protected-area clients, built and instructed by personnel with law enforcement and operational backgrounds. Foundation programs cover enforcement fundamentals, patrol planning, evidence handling and field safety. Further capability is scoped confidentially with each client, scaled to their legal authority and operating mandate, and delivered in-country where required.
Investigation & Case Management Systems
Our investigation and case management platform, configured for environmental and natural-resource investigations — gives agencies a single, auditable system for managing cases from first report to brief of evidence, with structured evidence handling, elements-based case building and defensible chain of custody throughout.
Chris Phillips leads ERS’s Environmental Risk & Resilience practice, working across environmental risk, regulatory strategy, investigations, enforcement and complex operations in Australia and internationally.
At ERS, Chris works with government, industry, regulators and conservation organisations across environmental compliance, investigations, regulatory risk, environmental incident response, ranger and enforcement capability development, biodiversity and Nature Repair.
Our environmental solutions protect reputations and safeguard assets for clients across mining & resources, oil & gas, government and critical infrastructure.