Essential Safety Solutions (ESS) will seek to minimise the impact of its operations on the environment.
We are committed to achieving best practice in environmental management across all of our operations by:
- Adopting the highest environmental standards in all areas of operation, meeting and exceeding all relevant legislative requirements.
- Conforming to the requirements of ISO 14001:2015 Environmental management systems — Requirements with guidance for use.
- Actively seeking to minimise, and where possible eliminate, any adverse environmental effects of our work.
- Fostering a culture of sustainable environmental management.
- Fostering a culture of environmental awareness, and compliance in our employees, suppliers, and contractors, by creating an understanding of the requirements and implementation of relevant environmental standards.
- Ensuring the satisfaction of our clients by providing high quality performance on every project.
- Striving to reduce resource consumption and minimise waste generation in our operations and through the life cycle of services and products.
- Purchasing sustainable products wherever feasible preferring recycled, FSC, other low environmental impact products, and energy from renewable sources.
- Reducing fuel consumption by scheduling field jobs to minimise travel distance.
- Monitoring and reducing our energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, paper consumption, waste generation and water usage.
The Essential Safety Solutions environmental management strategy provides for the ongoing development of systems to minimise our environmental impact. The strategy is dynamic to allow for the incorporation of innovative practice to achieve our environmental goals. Compliance with, and improvements in, Essential Safety Solutions strategy are achieved by a proactive approach which includes:
- An aspiration to achieve carbon zero by 2027 through the introduction of electric vehicles, the use of solar energy coupled with battery storage and other innovative solutions.
- Maintaining our ISO 14001 Environmental management systems certification.
- Having a nominated person who is responsible for identifying activities which may impact on the environment, and to institute, monitor, and review minimisation strategies.
- Identifying and complying with applicable environmental laws and regulations, contractual obligations, and Codes of Practice.
- Developing procedures to minimise the effects of our activities on the environment and prevent pollution by:
- Applying waste minimisation strategies across all ESS operations including job sites, yards, and offices.
- Proactively seeking to recycle and reuse materials wherever practical.
- Identifying the cost savings achieved through the avoidance of waste, compliance issues, etc., to ensure continued support of the policy.
- Taking a cooperative approach to exercising due diligence.
- Developing a culture of environmental awareness and compliance in our employees through training and example.
- Ensuring the effective application of our developed plans and procedures, and the meeting of environmental performance indicators through monitoring and review throughout each project.
- Maintaining open communication with staff, clients, and stakeholders on all matters pertaining to environmental performance, and regularly reviewing procedures against performance outcomes to maintain a culture of continuous improvement.
Significant Environmental Aspects
ESS is committed to continual evaluation and improvement of its environmental system. This policy is applicable to all Essential Safety Solutions work sites and operations.
To achieve this, ESS regularly examines its key processes to discover how these processes interact with the environment. Based on these interactions, the company then identifies its significant environmental aspects where work processes have a measurable impact on the environment. Many of these aspects fall under legal requirements, however some aspects may relate to the ESS Environmental Policy commitments of improving performance and preventing pollution.
