Our commitment to ESG
The continuous improvement of the environmental, social and economic performance of our services and products is at the heart of our business strategy.
We will achieve this by:
- Ensuring that our vision and ESG objectives are relevant, understood and communicated and that our employees demonstrate alignment to them.
- Identifying all material ESG risks in the business activities and ensuring that the risks are fully considered and managed in a responsible and ethical way.
- Ensuring that key decisions are only taken after full consideration of all material ESG issues and risks.
- Setting targets for environmental, social and governance matters
Environment
- Committing to the protection of the environment through continuously reducing the environmental footprint of the Company.
- Actively exploring initiatives to improve energy efficiency and to develop on-site renewable generation where practical and economic to do so.
- Ensuring all staff consider the environmental consequences of their actions and seek to minimise the impact, where reasonably practicable.
- Consideration and monitoring of key environmental metrics material to the Company, including energy, greenhouse gas emissions, water and waste.
- Comply with all applicable biodiversity laws, regulations, contractual obligations and our company policies that govern us.
Social
- Encouraging a culture of diversity with the highest ethical standards, respect human rights, promote gender equality and act against incidents and grievances in a systematic manner.
- Supporting a culture in which all employees are valued and respected, with regular employee engagement to collect feedback.
- Promoting the Company’s commitment to the wider society and community development as well as local employment.
- Supporting local initiatives, with the goal of making a positive contribution to our local communities, and to organisations relevant to our business.
- Providing adequate control of health and safety and wellbeing risks in order to prevent any incidents occurring in the workplace or through any of the Company’s operations for our employees, contractors, supply chain and users in conjunction with the Company’s existing H&S policies.
- Reporting on H&S incidents regularly through board reporting, promoting a continuous improvement philosophy with a zero accidents ambition, in conjunction with our existing H&S policies.
- Committing to provide a work environment where no-one experiences discrimination or disadvantage, free of harassment and bullying, where everyone is treated with dignity and respect in line with core values.
Governance
- Ensuring compliance with regulations and guiding principles governing the protection of human rights, operational and occupational health and safety, environmental and business practices in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
- Identifying the relevant legislative and regulatory requirements and ensuring that the scope of our business operations are compliant with these requirements.
- Ensuring appropriate mitigation measures and procurement of relevant IT software to minimise the risk and impact of cyber security breaches.
- Adopting appropriate measures and guidelines to prevent the incident of fraud and ensure data protection and privacy.
- Ensuring availability of whistle blower and grievance processes throughout the organisation as a commitment to our ESG policy and values.
- Adopting the highest standards of governance and ethics of business conduct and practice.
