Environmental policy

To achieve this Environmental Vision, Rail Projects Victoria is committed to:

• Ensuring environmental management is a core value of our organisation;
• Promoting a culture of exceptional environmental management, collaboration and continuous improvement, empowering our people to embrace a positive environmental management culture to encourage enhanced environmental performance;
• Ensuring all our delivery partners meet or exceed our environmental management requirements and integrate best practice into their activities;
• Establishing a framework for setting objectives and targets across all environmental aspects of the Authority's work;
• Providing staff with information, training and support to meet environmental challenges; and
• Encouraging innovation and taking advantage of available opportunities to manage environmental risks and impacts.

To give effect to this Policy, our people will:

• Establish and implement practices to fulfil environmental compliance requirements, including all applicable environmental legislation, regulations, objectives and targets;
• Implement departmental and Rail Projects Victoria environmental plans, objectives and targets;
• Endeavour to protect and conserve the local and regional environment; and
• Effectively manage the environmental impacts including social impacts, waste, water and energy use.