Welcome
Are you struggling to make sustained improvements in your operations’ safety and environmental performance?
Since 1980, having visited hundreds of factories across six of the seven continents, we can bring fresh thinking, deep understanding of industrial operations coupled with strong insights into human behaviour and decades of experience to transform your safety and environmental performance, compliance and governance.
Please contact us to discuss your challenges and agree a practical, pragmatic and cost-effective strategy.
Contact us at:
+44 7515 478521
Safety First
Transforming your business’ safety performance is at the heart of what we do and have done for decades. The starting point is to ensure that your operations at least meet the local legal requirements, and we can help you reduce that regulatory risk.
What are those activities which could seriously harm your workforce if not properly controlled? We can help you identify these critical risks and create strong controls.Your people are your most important asset. Yet what they do and how they do it is not always as you envisaged.
Do you often find yourself asking “why did they do it?”. People are not pre-programmable. Your organisation’s culture sets the basis for how your workforce acts and reacts to your management style, priorities and expectations. We can help you take a fresh look and advise you how to drive better compliance and stronger governance.
Society expects businesses to be legally compliant, to operate ethically and to be a good neighbour in the communities in which they operate. In essence, to do the right thing.
In response, governments around the world, particularly in the UK and Europe, are imposing increasingly tough operational requirements on businesses across a wide range of topics. These include reducing energy consumption and therefore reducing greenhouse gas emissions, tightening air emissions, tightening wastewater standards, reducing water consumption in areas of water shortage, and minimising the packaging around products and making that packaging more recyclable.
Businesses are expected, and increasingly required, to publish operational data to show their progress towards their self-imposed environmental targets.
Irrespective of this, it is simply good business to increase operational efficiency by reducing all types of waste and driving legal compliance.
Environment
OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY
WATER & WASTEWATER
Water is a very precious natural commodity which we cannot take for granted. Certain areas are suffering an increasing lack of water and there are areas subject to increased flooding. Governments and water supply companies are placing tighter limits on water abstraction and use. Has your business analysed water use and investigated opportunities to reduce water? All operations discharge wastewater, not only from the people in the business but also from operational usage. All such discharges are subject to strict quality and quantity controls. Is your business struggling to comply consistently?
PACKAGING
Many types of packaging are essential to protect products, especially perishable foods. Society is placing increasingly demands on brands to minimise their packaging and make them more recyclable. Governments, especially the UK nation governments, are following this trend and placing strong legislation to require certain percentages of their packaging to be recovered and recycled. A recent development is to require many businesses to pay for the collection by local authorities of branded packaging from household waste. This is called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). The cost of all this legal duty is substantial. Failure to comply may result in substantial fines. Is your business affected by these requirements and is it compliant?
ENERGY & CLIMATE CHANGE
Industrial energy costs are significant and continue to trend upwards. Finding ways to cut down energy use cost-effectively is good for the environment and makes good business sense. When burning fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, they release greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change and the associated adverse and increasingly extreme weather conditions. It is important to be able to measure energy use and greenhouse gas emissions to help develop an action plan. The UK’s Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) requires many businesses to measure their energy use and report it publicly along with an energy action plan with annual updates. Are you confident that your business is compliant? Under 2018 UK regulations referred to as the Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting requirements, many businesses are required to disclose in their Directors’ Report their energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency actions annually. Is your business covered by this requirements and is your business compliant?
WASTE
Is your business paying to throw away useful material into landfills? Many businesses now benefit from recycling what used to be wastes. Often 95% of waste materials can be recycled and, in some cases, businesses achieve zero waste to landfill and save money.
The cost of waste disposal is significant and the trend is upwards.