The treatment plant manager steps to the front of the staff meeting. “I’ve got some exciting news,” she says. “We’re going to implement an environmental management system.”And you can just imagine the groans and rolls of the eyes. “Oh, great,” team members are thinking. “Another bureaucratic exercise. The next flavor of the month.”That’s easy to understand, because in the public and private sectors, many management fads have come and gone. The reality, though, is that some management systems have been well proven and, once put in place, can deliver benefits for years.Case in pointOne example is the environmental management system.
