DMG Contracting Limited recognises the importance of maintaining their operations to ensure the safety of the environment. The company recognises that effective management of our environment makes good business sense and is a fundamental and integral part of our business strategy.
We commit to:
- Being aware of how our activities impact upon the environment and seeking 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,
- Being sensitive to the environmental concerns of our neighbours and the communities through which we operate and responding to them.
- Adopting environmental objectives to continually improve our environmental performance and monitor progress in their achievement.
- Requiring our suppliers and contractors to have a proper regard for our Environmental Policy for the goods and services they provide for us.
- Disposal of waste materials in line with current legislation and information provided on the Material Safety Data Sheets provided by the supplier.
- Communicating this policy to our staff, suppliers and customers and seeking their help to implement it.
WASTE MANAGEMENT
We recognise that the incorrect or inappropriate disposal of waste such as fly tipping is illegal, unsightly and can damage the environment, and that the true cost of waste and the disposal can account for up to 5% of project costs.
We therefore ensure the following:
- Where possible when ordering we minimise waste produced by the ordering of exact amounts and ensuring that we take into account the method of packaging and delivery of materials.
- All waste will be segregated on site into waste that can be defined as controlled waste with separation between inert waste, non-hazardous waste and hazardous waste.
- All waste will be transferred by a registered waste carrier with records maintained of the transfer of the waste on the controlled waste transfer certificate.
- Where we undertake projects with an estimated value greater than £300,000.00 we will prepare a site waste management plan for the works to be undertaken.
- All waste will be dealt with in accordance with the Duty of Care Regulations.
Cliff Doyle
Director with Responsibility for Health and Safety