Identification of potential impacts and risks is a primary function of stakeholder engagement. Sites can only fully understand their actual or potential impacts through engagement. In turn, stakeholders can only assess the likely effect of impacts and help define prevention and mitigation measures if they are informed of, and consulted on, site activities and plans. Identifying stakeholders and issues that present risks or opportunities to the site itself must also be informed by engagement. Stakeholder engagement is intertwined with the annual , as well as issue-specific Management Plans (as relevant, see Section 4. Impact and Risk Prevention and Management).
As with impacts and risks, priorities should be assessed through a collaborative process. The perspectives, needs, concerns and ideas of stakeholders are fundamental elements in the development of sites’ activities (see Section 4A).
The impacts, risks and opportunities and associated management measures identified through (see Section 3C), (see Section 4A) and issue specific Management Plans (as relevant, see Section 4. Impact and Risk Prevention and Management) provide a guide to identifying which stakeholders need to be engaged and on what topics.