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Department of Parliamentary Services Environmental Policy
Commitment
The Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) is committed to complying
with applicable legislative and regulatory requirements in achieving environmental
best practice and ecologically sustainable outcomes at Parliament House.
Our Objective
Our key environmental objectives are to ensure environmentally responsible
practices are established and maintained through all areas and operations
at Parliament House. To achieve this objective DPS will:
- Operate within the principles of Ecologically Sustainable
Development
- Develop environmentally responsible policies, procedures
and systems to ensure pollution prevention and minimal environmental
impacts
- Develop and implement measures and adopt technology,
where appropriate, to prevent and minimise pollution, and reduce waste,
energy and natural resource use.
- Comply with all applicable environmental laws, regulations,
agreements and other requirements to which the Parliament subscribes
- require compliance by all of our contractors and suppliers.
- Systematically manage our activities to achieve and
promote continual improvement, by setting environmental objectives and
targets and assessing our achievements.
- Annually review and update this policy, communicate
it to all employees and make it available to the public.
Our Management System
We are committed to the ongoing implementation and promotion of an Environmental
Management System (EMS) that meets the requirements of the international
standard ISO 14001.
This EMS acts as the driver for continual improvement in environmental
performance. We monitor our environmental performance and regularly review
environmental management programs and assess whether the objectives and
targets are being met and the desired outcomes are being achieved. We
report our outcomes to Parliament through the annual reporting process.
The DPS and its employees are committed to improving environmental performance
and achieve this through the implementation of this Policy. We encourage
all staff to actively pursue environmentally sustainable outcomes, whilst
providing services to politicians, staff and visitors.
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