SUSTAINABILITY POLICY

YOUR SAFETY DEPARTMENT^SM

Your Safety Department^SM is committed to promoting sustainability. Concern for the environment and promoting a broader sustainability agenda are integral to our professional activities and the management of the organization. We aim to follow and promote good sustainability practices, reduce the environmental impacts of all our activities, and help our clients and partners to do the same.

Principles

Our Sustainability Policy is based upon the following principles:

• To comply with, and exceed where practicable, all applicable legislation, regulations, and codes of practice.
• To integrate sustainability considerations into all our business decisions.
• To ensure that all staff are fully aware of our Sustainability Policy and are committed to implementing and improving it.
• To minimize the impact on the sustainability of all office and transportation activities.
• To make clients and suppliers aware of our Sustainability Policy, and encourage them to adopt sound sustainable management practices.
• To review and continually strive to improve our sustainability performance.

Practical steps - In order to put these principles into practice we will:

Travel and meetings

• Include the full costs of more sustainable forms of transport in our financial proposals, rather than the least cost option which may involve traveling by car or air. Where the only practical alternative is to fly, we will include costs for full air fares rather than budget airlines in our financial proposals.
• Avoid physically traveling to meetings etc where alternatives are available and practical, such as using teleconferencing, video conferencing, or webcams, and efficient timing of meetings to avoid multiple trips. These options are also often more time efficient, while not sacrificing the benefits of regular contact with clients and partners.
• To reduce the need to travel to meetings and elsewhere, and facilitate regular client contact, we will provide a web cam to clients free of charge for the duration of a project where appropriate.
• Reduce the need for our staff to travel by supporting alternative working arrangements, including home working, etc, and promote the use of public transport.
• Use an emissions recording scheme for business travel to monitor our impact.

Purchase of equipment and consumption of resources

• Minimize our use of paper and other office consumables, for example by double-siding all paper used, and identifying opportunities to reduce waste.
• As far as possible arrange for the reuse or recycling of office waste, including paper, computer supplies and redundant equipment.
• Reduce the energy consumption of office equipment by purchasing energy-efficient equipment and good housekeeping.
• Seek to purchase electricity from a supplier committed to renewable energy. Seek to maximize the proportion from renewable energy sources, while also supporting investment in new renewable energy schemes.

Working practices and advice to clients

• Undertake voluntary work with the local community and/or environmental organizations.
• Ensure that any associates that we employ take account of sustainability issues in their advice to clients.
• Include a copy of our Sustainability Policy in all our proposals to clients.