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Health Safety And Environmental
AB Glass (Doors & Windows) Ltd recognises that it has a responsibility as an employer
to ensure the ‘Healthy, Safety and Welfare’ of all employees whilst at work.
It is the responsibility of all persons who work for the Company to ensure this
policy extends to all other persons not adversely affected by our current work activities.
In this way, each and every individual within AB Glass has a vital and specific
role in maintaining the organisations’ Health and Safety standards.
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Occupational Health & Safety Policy
Responsibility for the overall implementation, maintenance and development of our
safety management system however rests with the senior management of AB Glass, including
the regular setting and reviewing of objectives, and the provision of adequate resource
to allow those objectives to be achieved.
It is also the responsibility of the senior management to ensure that our health
and safety policy is relevant to all applicable legislation and any other requirements
that AB Glass may subscribe.
Management recognises the importance of its staff and encourage the reporting of
any hazard or risk that may adversely affect our health and safety standard, we
also recognise the importance of ensuring that staff are adequately trained, informed
and supervised to fulfil their activities in a safe manner.
AB Glass is committed to a management system that demonstrates a pro-active approach
through the continual improvement of our health and safety performance. This is
further achieved by the regular setting and reviewing of objectives to achieve compliance
to current safety legislation applicable to AB Glass, and through matching our industries
best practices.
We also recognise the need for identification of hazards and the recording and reviewing
of risk assessments, to further achieve a pro-active safety management system.
The effectiveness of our health and safety policy and its implementation are subject
to regular management review and all related processes and procedures are subject
to an on-going audit schedule.
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Environmental Statement
AB Glass’s activities principally involve inert materials mostly being aluminium
and glass. AB Glass do not undertake any activities that use or generate any significant
quantities of pollutants or noise, although we recognise that some activities have
the potential to cause harm to the environment. It is our objective to review all
procedures and processes to identify activities which create harm to the environment
and to take all appropriate steps to eliminate, minimize or control the risk of
environmental harm.
This policy supports AB Glass’s Sustainability policy and describes our responsibility
towards the environment. It is our intent to effectively manage and improve our
environmental performance and minimize the impact of our business on the environment.
We are committed to do this through the following:
AB Glass will at all times carry out our business in a manner that will promote
the least possible environmental impact whilst accepting the governance of: Best
Available Technique Not Entailing Excessive Cost (BATNEEC) Under the EPA, Including:
Where ever possible to reclaim and recycle (where appropriate) products and materials
Conservation of energy
To avoid the pollution of air, land and water
The promotion of these policies to our staff, suppliers and customers
Continual environmental improvement by implementing business-specific environmental
management systems.
The development of objectives supported by detailed targets, to manage all potentially
significant environmental aspects.
To demonstrate efficiency in the use of energy, water and materials, as well as
taking appropriate opportunities to minimize waste and recycle wherever possible.
Full compliance with all relevant environmental legislation, other environmental
regulations and standards of relevance to the industry sectors in which we operate.
To minimize pollution caused be vehicle exhausts and equipment.
To publish information on environmental performance, gaining third party endorsements
of published performance and benchmarking this performance against others.
To meet or exceed all applicable government requirements and voluntary requirement
to which AB Glass subscribes. Set and adhere to stringent requirements of our own
no matter where in the country the company operates.
Environmental procedures fall within the company’s health and safety system. All
the above policies are addressed by procedures adopted as part of the health and
safety system.
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Sustainability
AB Glass prides itself on its continuous efforts in the reduction, reuse and recycling
of materials in all aspects of the company.
We exclusively use paper from a sustainable source at a thickness of 80gsm or less
in a further effort to reduce our consumption of energy and target one of our main
areas of waste, further to this wherever possible we also use double sided printing
and reuse scrap paper for internal memos. The primary office printer/photocopier
is from Xerox's energy star range which is superior in energy efficient office equipment,
they currently run an empty cartridge return scheme from which 90% is reused.
We are continuously seeking out the most effective, ecologically friendly suppliers
to meet our range of demands, from waste disposal to supply chain. Our main supplier
of aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling is Kawneer, being the market leaders
in the use of recycled materials 100% of their billet is reused through various
medias and is not impaired by the process which allows them to maintain the supply
of superior quality products with only 5% of the initial energy being needed to
recycle waste materials.
Currently we also source our offices energy from the one of the UK’s largest supplier
of renewable electricity Swalec. Between 50-60% of electricity supplied comes from
renewable sources such as the deep water wind turbine in the Moray Firth. AB Glass
has reduced its overall waste dramatically over a very short spell, with a reduction
in skip hire of 52%.
AB Glass will continue its search for more sustainable materials, and it’s strive
towards a more eco-efficient office environment with goals set and reviewed on an
increasingly frequent pattern.
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