Environmental Management System Manual

In 1994, in response to an Administrative Consent Order with the Department of Environmental Protection, MassHighway began a comprehens ive environmental compliance initiative at its maintenance facilities. At the outset, the Department performed a gap analysis to evaluate MassHighway’s management structure and to determine the level of environmental compliance. The gap analysis concluded that a significant financial and personnel investment was needed to correct violations of regulatory requirements and to provide a method to ensure on-going compliance. The need to develop and institutionalize a formal Environmental Management System to support environmental compliance was thus identified...