ABSTRACT
Corporate management receives feedback that reflects not only the performance from within the organizational standpoint but also takes into account the organization’s position relative to its business community as a whole and reflects the expectation and the realities of public stakeholders. But environmental health and safety (EHS) performance is not strictly an EHS management mission; it is a company-wide mission and should be recognized. Annual compensation adjustments for all employees should be tied in part to environmental performance. It is critical that an environmental management assessment be conducted in a truly independent fashion, from day-to-day corporate to line-responsible personnel. An environmental management assessment should always be conducted for and reported to the appropriate subcommittee of the board of directors. Environmental management is a venue that requires not only aggressive access to policy-setters and regulators but concrete efforts to improve relations with external stakeholders.
