Environmental Policy

E.R. Armfield Limited, in carrying out its operations,recognise the importance of maintaining its operations to ensure the safety of the environment. The Company recognises that effective management of our environment makes good business sense and will be a fundamental and integral part of our business strategy. To ensure we achieve these standards, procedures will be implemented to include the following:

• Being aware of how our activities impact upon the environment and seek to minimise adverse effects by means of the best available techniques, not entailing excessive cost, through a policy of health and safety improvement at the workplace control of pollution and care for the local environment.
• Complying with our legal responsibilities, and playing our part in influencing future legislation.
• Conserving the use of resources, particularly those which are scarce or non renewable, including the following:
  • To avoid waste and encourage conservation, re-use and recycling, e.g. chipping, composting and waste disposal management, etc;
  • To preserve, restore and enhance the built and natural heritage;
  • To encourage the sustainable use of land based resources and certified timber and wood products, e.g. non-sustainable resources - peat, tropical hardwoods;
  • To reduce air, land and water pollution, e.g. toxic chemical sprays, motor exhaust etc
• Being sensitive to the environmental concerns of our neighbours and the communities through which we operate and respond to them.
• Adopting environmental objectives to continually improve our environmental awareness and monitor progress in the achievement of the objectives.
• Requiring our suppliers and contractors to have a proper regard for our Environmental Policy and for the goods and service that they provide for us.
• Communicating this policy to our staff, suppliers and customers and seeking their help to implement it.

This policy will be reviewed on an annual basis.