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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
At MTR, environmental responsibility starts at the highest level and cascades
down throughout the organisation to ensure that staff understand their
own responsibilities and how they can assist MTR achieve its environmental
targets.
The Corporation initiated a corporate-wide Environmental Management System
(EMS) in 1997 to ensure that all environmental impacts were monitored
and controlled. The system integrated environmental management into all
divisional activities to ensure that opportunities for cost effective
avoidance or mitigation were identified and implemented.
During 2002, MTR further developed its EMS to meet the requirements of
the international ISO14001 environmental management system standard. After
certification audits in November and December 2002, MTR received ISO14001
certification for "provision of railway project management, operation,
maintenance and relevant administrative services"(Stated scope of
ISO14001 Certificate) in March 2003.
MTR's ISO14001-certified EMS is distinctive in a number of ways.
- The system is based around a set of challenging, quantitative targets
which are designed to improve performance(see
2003 Targets). These are supported by detailed action plans defining
responsibilities and timescales.
- Environmental risks were identified and prioritised through a bottom-up
approach through a series of nine workshops involving over 200 staff
from across Project and Operations Divisions.
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