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Environmental management plans are increasingly important documents for construction and site based companies. As the planet becomes an increasingly important component of project delivery to almost all stakeholders, so does environmental management become increasingly important for your company and projects.
In order to meet the increasing pressure and scrutiny on environmental practices, companies are turning to their environmental strategy and documents. At the core of this project specific strategy and continuous environmental improvement mantra are environmental management plans.
The premise of these plans is to provide companies with a period of time and conscious thought where they can put their heads together and come up with a good environmental plan.
The purpose of this environmental management plan is to describe and outline and this specific project will ideally avoid but at least mitigate its effects on the surrounding areas and overall environment.
What's in this outline and description? That depends on the structure the company has used in the past as well as the scope of their project work. A contractor with a large scale mega project will need to be meticulous in their environmental plan whereas a smaller subcontractor will only have to address their smaller but potentially still tangible impact.
The questions and document fields will remain largely the same for most companies, but the body of the project specific plan will vary depending on the which legislative requirements, policies, and environmental standards the project is being held to. This will inform the measures the company outlines in the plan - as well as the implementation of the plan too.
When preparing your environmental plan framework or template, and when documenting it and working on it, it's important to remember the purpose of what you are doing - both from an internal and external perspective.
Some of the reasons for this document are precautionary and protectionairy:
While other reasons are process and operations based:
While finally, the plan is intended to help ensure the environment is protected - and to mitigate the effects of your work on a fragile environment.
You can preview the entire environmental management plan example below by hovering over the document and clicking the button. Open the document and flick through the pages, observing key sections about the scope of works, the environmental controls put in place and how these plans and implementations will be communicated.
