Environment
At Hays we recognise that our day-to-day business activities impact upon the environment in a number of ways.
We use natural resources in our offices through energy and paper usage and contribute to carbon emissions through this and also through staff transport. We contribute to various waste streams which include recyclable waste, general land fill waste, secure disposal and waste water.
We are committed to achieving continuous improvement in environmental performance and to preventing pollution, by improving our sustainability and operating in a carbon reduction conscious way.
We will introduce an Environmental Management Plan to our worldwide estate and operate within the scope of this plan.
We will:
- Integrate environmental management into each aspect of our day-to-day business operations to ensure environmental issues are addressed.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, and voluntary or corporate adopted policies (including this policy statement). Where no regulations exist, we shall set our own best practice standards.
- Seek to reduce our use of natural resources such as energy, water and raw materials, maximise the efficient use of such resources, and reuse rather than dispose whenever possible, promote recycling and the use of recycled materials.
- Where possible, design energy efficiency into new services and offices and manage energy wisely in all operations, in order to prevent unnecessary environmental impacts in the future.
- Ensure effective communication to employees to improve awareness of the Policy and understanding of their responsibilities in relation to it.
- Ensure that suppliers and contractors are encouraged to minimise the impact of their operations on the environment and actively support our environmental programmes through an environmentally sensitive purchasing policy.
- Monitor progress on a regular basis to identify strengths and areas for improvement and to highlight actions required preventing potential deficiencies.
