About the User Guide

The National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) is an Australian database of substance emissions from various industrial facility sources, and diffuse sources. The User Guide for the NPI Online Reporting System helps reporters and coordinators to report emissions using the new system.

The User Guide will take you step by step through the process of using the Online Reporting System.

The User Guide has been structured to reflect the structure of the NPI Online Reporting System.

The User Guide contains the following information:

• Section 1: Introduction; and outline of NPI online reporting process (PDF - 550.11 KB)
• (DOC - 1.31 MB)
• Section 2: Creating emission reports (PDF - 3.6 MB) |  (DOC - 5.36 MB)
• Section 3: Support (PDF - 156.15 KB) |  online-reporting-system-user-guide-version-3-2-s3.doc (DOC - 351.5 KB)
• Section 4: Calculation tools (PDF - 740.35 KB) |  (DOC - 1.5 MB)
• Section 4: Calculation tools (PDF - 740.35 KB) |  (DOC - 800 KB)
• Section 6: User Admin (PDF - 243.81 KB) |  (DOC - 606.5 KB)
• Section 7: References (PDF - 7.17 KB) |  (DOC - 26.5 KB)
• Section 8: User guide glossary (PDF - 16.33 KB) |  (DOC - 32.5 KB)
• Appendix A: Help files (PDF - 151.35 KB) | (DOC - 199 KB)
• Appendix B: Creating a report from the Welcome screen (PDF - 57.17 KB) |  (DOC - 56.5 KB)
• Appendix C: Instructions for using the Calculation Tools in Excel 2003 (PDF - 1.19 MB) |  online-reporting-system-user-guide-version-3-2-app-c.doc (DOC - 2.49 MB)

See also

• Estimating emissions of NPI substances
• Reporting emissions and transfers
• NPI Guide