• Being aware of how our activities impact upon the environment
and seek to minimize adverse effects by means of the best available
techniques, not entailing excessive cost, through a policy of health
and safety improvement at the workplace control of pollution and
care for the local environment.
• Complying with our legal responsibilities and playing our
part in influencing future legislation.
• Conserving the use of resources, particularly those which
are scarce or non renewable, including the following:
a) to avoid waste and encourage conservation, re-use
and recycling, e.g. chipping, composting and waste disposal management,
etc.;
b) to preserve, restore and enhance the built and
natural heritage;
c) to encourage the sustainable use of land-based
resources and certified timber and wood products. e.g. non-sustainable
resources - peat, tropical hardwoods;
d) to reduce air, land and water pollution, e.g.
toxic chemical sprays, motor exhaust etc
.• Being sensitive to the environmental concerns of our neighbours
and the communities through which we operate and responding to them.
• Adopting environmental objectives to continually improve
our environmental
performance and monitor progress in their achievement.
• Requiring our suppliers and contractors to have a proper
regard for our Environmental Policy for the goods and services they
provide for us.
• Communicating this policy to our staff, suppliers and customers
and seeking their help to implement it.
This policy will be reviewed on an annual basis.
