This environmental policy will be achieved by:
• Increasing and maintaining a high level of environmental awareness of all employees, so that environmental protection becomes a collaborative effort.
• The senior agents of the company demonstrating a commitment to environmental protection by active involvement and providing adequate resources.
• Complying with all relevant environmental legislation, guidance and good practice.
• Adhering to our client’s own environmental policies and procedures.
• Pro-actively monitoring and developing innovative means of minimising environmental impact.
• Encouraging close and transparent liaison where required with the enforcing authorities, such as the Environment Agency and Local Authority.
• Assessing the impact on the environment from all aspects of our operations to ensure that all suitable preventative and protective measures are taken to protect the Environment.
• Development and implementation of arrangements to support this policy statement, based on continuous improvement.
• Monitoring, measuring and reviewing all arrangements against objectives to ensure they remain effective and current with changing legislation and knowledge.
• To maintain effective environmental management, we require the full support and co-operation of all employees and contractors, and that they share these company values as common beliefs.
Stuart Shaw
Director
January 2023
A full list of specific areas where we could be impacting our environment. We have listed our methods for containment or reduction in the table below.
To maintain effective environmental management, we require the full support and co-operation of all employees and contractors, and that they share these company values as common beliefs.
Aspect | Enviromental Impacts | Management |
|---|---|---|
Woodworking | Noise | Operatives given Toolbox Talks on methods of working and the company avoids where practicable working unsociable hours in residential areas. |
Cutting Timber | Waste – Sawdust | Cutting is to be carried out in a contained area. Masks are to be worn and yard sweeper used. To minimise waste, scaffold boards are assessed and graded, cut down and saw dust and timber is re-sold. |
Metal Tube | Waste – metal | Masks worn, and yard sweeper used. To minimise waste, scaffold tubing is used for smaller furniture items. Any left over metal is recycled |
Waste Yard | Waste – Landfill | Recycling bins are used where possible to reduce landfill. Registered waste carrier (Eastleigh borough council) is used to remove segregated waste. |
Purchasing | Sustainability | To use, wherever possible, material’s that are the produce of renewable, sustainable resources.
The wood purchased is reclaimed from local scaffold companies. These scaffold companies have purchased them form FSC certified merchants. |
Sheeting | Waste | We now use wasted sheeting to offer one more use for local scaffold companies waste products. Scaffold sheeting, debris netting, and roof sheeting are used in the packaging process |
Office Print Cartridges | Waste | Inkjet and laser cartridges are sent for re-cycling. |
Office printing | Waste & Resources | Paper is recycled, and the company promotes think before you print. |
Electronic Mail | Waste | The Company Policy is to first and foremost utilise e-mail to forward correspondence to the relevant personnel. Electronic mailing is promoted with customers, employees & online banking is promoted to our customers and staff. |
Heating | Waste – Energy | Building is insulated and double glazed.
25% of our energy is generated from solar panels and 35% is generating using our own waste products. |
Electricity | Waste – Energy | To avoid unnecessary electricity usage, switch off not stand by is promoted at induction.
25% of our energy is generated from solar panels and 35% is generating using our own waste products.
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Vehicles | Pollution – Land-Air | To minimise exhaust pollution, strict regular vehicle schedules are maintained to keep land/air (exhaust) pollution as low as possible via efficient running. Consideration is given to more fuel-efficient transport and correct utilisation of transport to suit project requirements. Trackers are fitted to all company vehicles and satellite navigation systems are used for out of area works. |
Timber | Sustainability | Policy to purchase all timber from sustainable sources. Forests are sustained using the best practices, to assist creating minimal impact on the planet. |
Car Sharing | Fuel | Vehicle sharing (and cycling/walking) is promoted for our employees to get to and from their place of work and go about their daily business, to minimise fuel consumption and pollution. We currently have the following as of 3/8/2020.
Cycling: 20%
Walking: 10%
Driving (less than 5 miles): 70% |
