An Approach to Stakeholder Engagement Ensuring Confidence in a Regulatory Decision Around a Proposed Co-Located Low Level Waste (LLW) Disposal and Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) Storage Facility

ARPANSA's role, as the Commonwealth's regulatory body, is to provide 'easy to understand' advice on our regulatory requirements, among other, including the provision of waste management criteria and elements important to the safety case, clarifying ARPANSA's criteria for the protection of people (public and workers) and the environment for a proposed national radioactive waste management facility. This paper will focus on stakeholder issues management and the importance of developing a detailed stakeholder engagement strategy and plan to ensure our engagement is conducted in a meaningful manner and that we are committed to long term engagement. Finally, the paper will provide some success factors that we believe directly affects the confidence of stakeholders, as it relates to our decision making process. (author)