Environmental Performance
In May 2006, the Secretary endorsed the Department's Environmental Policy. Through this policy, the Department will implement measures to prevent pollution and comply with relevant legal and other environmental requirements.
The Policy is the driver for establishing and maintaining the Department's Environmental Management System (EMS). The EMS will manage the environmental aspects of the Department's office based activities in the National Office, but will have advantages across its property portfolio around Australia. In particular, the EMS is focused on improving our environmental performance in the areas of purchasing practices, waste production, water consumption, energy efficiency and staff awareness. In many cases the EMS will formalise and build upon existing environmental management practices.
The EMS is compliant with the requirement of the International Standard for environmental management systems ISO14001:2004. In this way, the Department is meeting the global benchmark for better environmental practice.
Download the Department's Environmental Policy [
PDF: 74 KB] as Adobe PDF document.
The Department will publish information on its environmental performance in its Annual Report.
Communications relevant to our EMS are welcome and may be directed to our EMS Coordinator, care of Environmanage@infrastructure.gov.au.
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