Highways Agency

Monitoring Our Performance

Inspection of an innovative design of footbridge over the A50 near the Meir Tunnel.

Issue

To achieve our environmental Key Objective and support our Strategic Aim environmental considerations must become an integral part of our management systems.

Objective

To seek to extend and integrate our existing management systems governing new road schemes and maintenance, into all areas of our activity to provide a unified approach to environmental management.

Actions will include:

• Formulating our environmental objectives into plans and decision making processes in a systematic way.
• Reviewing all our activities so we have a better understanding of the impact of our work on the environment.
• Developing robust action programmes to deliver genuine environmental protection
  and enhancement, ensuring that we have the commitment to deliver them.
• Monitoring our performance, rigorously establishing meaningful goals and measuring performance towards these through performance indicators.
• Striving for continuous improvement.

Tracking our performance

The Agency is committed to developing a series of environmental performance indicators (PIs). When these are developed we will be able to monitor our performance over time and measure the effectiveness of our environmental management processes. We are committed to reporting our performance year on year in the Agency Annual Report. As PIs are developed they will be published in our Business Plans starting in 2000. The form of the PIs we use will be kept under review.

Targets for these programmes will be defined annually in our Business Plans while our Annual Reports will show how we have implemented the programmes together with our performance in meeting targets.