Health, Safety & Environmental

Health & Safety Policy Statement



Our Statement of General Policy is:

• To provide adequate control of health and safety risks arising from our work activities. 
• To consult with our employees on matters affecting their health and safety. 
• To provide and maintain safe plant and equipment. 
• To ensure safe handling and use of substances. 
• To provide information, instruction and supervision for employees. 
• To ensure all employees are competent to do their tasks and give them adequate training. 
• To prevent accidents and cases of work related ill health. 
• To maintain safe and healthy work conditions. 
• To review and revise this policy as necessary as processes, equipment and personnel change. 
• To keep up to date with health and safety legislation and regulations in line with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and all relevant regulations relating to the Act.
• To maintain industry practice and legislation relating to electrical & mechanical work.



Environmental Policy



Our Statement of General Policy and Strategy is:

• To comply with environmental legislation where relevant.
• To recognise and actively reduce the company effect on the environment.
• To minimise waste by evaluating operations ensuring they are as efficient as possible.
• To minimise toxic emissions through the selection and servicing of our vehicles and any other engine based equipment.
• To select manufacturing equipment, hand tools and electrical tools for maximum efficiency and recyclability.
• To minimise noise and vibration in the workplace and its effects on the environment where possible by working in daylight hours.
• To ensure we are receiving our power from the most cost effective and environmentally sympathetically generated electricity, gas, water etc.
• To actively promote recycling internally, amongst customers and suppliers.
• To identify suppliers who have an environmental policy and to build ongoing relationships with said companies.
• To communicate to, and train our employees in the way we want our environmental commitments to be achieved.
• To source a range of competitively produced materials that minimise the effect on the environment.
• To meet or exceed all the environmental legislation that relates to the company.
• To identify local suppliers when possible to reduce the amount of transportation and environmental impact of the materials supplied.
• To identify chemicals that are biodegradable where possible, or to make sure that waste residues are disposed of correctly.
• To identify any ozone depleting substances used within the company and aim to replace with environmentally safe replacements.
• To empower our employees to actively involve themselves in helping the company to be a responsible part of the wider community by highlighting any practices that can be improved or replaced by safer more environmentally sympathetic process or procedure.
• To use certificated waste handlers for disposal of waste. No burning of waste on company property without specific permission of the management.

Objectives:
The company will actively aim in 2013 / 2014 to reduce the amount of:

• Spend on fuel by actively monitoring each vehicle's usage and better job planning to reduce travel distance.
• Reduce spend on stationary by challenging the employees on their usage of general stationary particularly photo copy paper by not printing out emails etc
• Inform all of our customers and suppliers of our commitment to reducing our environmental impact.

Targets:

To archive our targets we have set ourselves the following:

• Inform all our customers and suppliers about our environmental policy by end of September 2013
• Establish current spend per vehicle on a monthly basis by end August 2013 and issue results and targets for company vehicle drivers by end of September 2013
• To change to a paperless invoicing, eliminating all associated stationary and postage costs.

Monitoring:

Progress on these objectives to be monitored and communicated to all involved through briefing and through involvement at all levels of the work force.