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Environmental Safety

Increased environmental legislation and a need for utilities to be more environmentally responsible, means that environmental management is as a big an issue as tackling risks to people's health and safety.

Successful environmental management involves taking a systematic approach to identifying and reducing the risks that a utility poses to the environment. 

A few steps to this systematic approach are:

• Complying with local relevant environmental legislation
• Minimizing the risk to the public from it's operation
• Protecting the natural environment (environmental impact studies)
• Requiring contractors to meet the utility's standards as well as the local environmental legislation
• Minimizing emissions and wastes
• Regularly assessing the environmental impact of the utility's operation 
• Periodically review utility's standards viz. environmental changes and reports on environmental accidents locally as well as internationally.