First Choice Drainage Solutions Ltd (The Organisation) realise the importance of maintaining operations to ensure the safety of the Environment. The Company recognises that effective management of our activities makes good business sense and will be fundamental to and is a part of our business strategy that shall be communicated to all personnel working for or on behalf of the Organisation.

To ensure we achieve these standards, procedures will be implemented to include the following:

• Being aware of how our activities impact the environment, to seek and minimise adverse effects by means of the best practices and available techniques, not entailing excessive cost, through a Policy of Quality, Health and Safety, and Environmental improvement in the workplace, control of pollution and care for the global, regional, and local Environment.
• To comply with our legal responsibilities and play a part in future legislation.
• To protect the environment and prevent pollution.
• Conserve the use of resources, particularly those that are scarce or non-renewable.
• To avoid waste and encourage conservation, re-use, and re-cycling e.g., Conservation and Waste disposal Management to preserve restore and enhance the built and natural heritage.
• To encourage the sustainable use of land-based resources and certified products.
• To reduce air, land, and water pollution e.g., minimise toxic emissions through the selection and use of our fleet and the sources of its power requirement in addition to efficient route planning.
• To encourage the conservation of energy through considered design.
• Being sensitive to the Environmental concerns of our Clients and Community through which we operate and responding to them.
• Adopting Environmental objectives to continually improve our Environmental performance and monitor the progress of achievement.
• Objectives identified by the workforce are recorded on the objectives register and are reviewed in line with operating procedures contained within the Management System.
• Using Supplies and Practices and a proper regard for the way we operate by disposing of waste materials as required by current legislation and to communicate this policy to all our Staff.

To meet this commitment, the Organisation will operate under the control of an Environmental System laid down in the ISO 14001:2015 standard. It is the Company’s objective to seek to operate this Environmental Policy continuously and to implement and operate to the requirements of the ISO Standard.

Signed: Sean Bennett, October 2024

Document Ref: CP-01, Issue: No: 8, Issue Date: 2024, Approved by: MHI.

Download this document