ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
We recognise that sound environmental management not only reduces our adverse
impacts on the local, national and global environments but also makes good
business sense. By reducing our legal liabilities and costs we raise our public
profile as a responsible and progressive organisation, giving us the platform to
compete now and into the future.
It is our policy to:
- - consume resources, such as energy, water, paper, etc. as efficiently as
practicable.
- - where waste is unavoidable, to manage it using the 'best practical
environmental option' (BPEO) i.e. re-use, recycle or recover it to minimise the
quantity for final disposal.
- - provide a safe and healthy environment in which our employees, customers and
visitors can interact.
- - minimise our daily discharge emissions to water, land and air.
- - minimise, as far as is reasonably practical, the risks of accidental damage to
the environment.
- - be committed to continual improvement, reacting to changes brought about by
political, economic and technological stimuli.
- - be committed to awareness programs so that individuals understand the impact
of their activities.
- - consider the environmental performance of our suppliers prior to making
purchasing decisions.
- - assist our clients with continual environmental performance initiatives by
disseminating information on best practice
and new environmentally sound
products and technologies.
- - encourage exchange of information and ideas from both internal and external
sources to help improve environmental performance.

August 2008
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