Occupational Personnel Services Ltd. (OPS)  is committed to promoting sustainability. Concern for the environment and promoting a broader sustainability agenda are i ntegral to OPS’ professional activities and the management of the organisation. We aim to follow to follow and to promote good sustainability practice, to reduce the environmental impacts of all our activities and to help our clients and partners to do the same.

 

Principles

Our Sustainability Policy is based upon the following principles:

• To comply with and exceed where practicable, all applicable legislation and codes of practice • To integrate sustainability considerations into all our business decisions

• To ensure that all staff are fully aware of our Sustainability Policy and are committed to implementing and improving it

• To minimise the impact on sustainability of all office and transportation activities

• To make clients and suppliers aware of our Sustainability Policy, and encourage them to adopt sound sustainable management practices

• To review, annually report, and to continually strive to improve our sustainability performance

 

Practical Steps

In order to put these principles into practice we will:

Travel and Meetings

• Walk, cycle and/or use public transport to attend meetings, site visits etc, apart from in

exceptional circumstances where the alternatives are impractical and/or cost prohibitive.

• Include the full costs of more sustainable forms of transport in our financial proposals, rather than the least cost option which may involve travelling by car or air.

• Avoid physically travelling to meetings etc where alternatives are available and practical, such as using teleconferencing, video conferencing or web cams, and efficient timing of meetings to avoid multiple trips. These options are also more time efficient, while not sacrificing the benefits of regular contact with clients and partners.

• Reduce the need for our staff to travel by supporting alternative working arrangements, including home working etc, and promote the use of public transport by locating our offices in accessible locations.

• Use an emissions recording scheme for business travel to monitor our impact.

 

Purchase of equipment and consumption of resources

• Minimise our use of paper and other office consumables, for example by double-siding all paper used, using email as the preferential form of written communication, only printing when absolutely necessary and identifying other opportunities to reduce waste.

• As far as possible arrange for the reuse or recycling of office waste, including paper, computer supplies and redundant equipment.

• Reduce the energy consumption of office equipment by purchasing energy efficient equipment and good housekeeping.

• Wherever possible purchase products from recycled or from well-managed, sustainable sources.

 

Working practices and advice to clients

• Undertake voluntary work with the local community and / or environmental organisations and make donations to seek to offset any carbon emissions from our activities.

• Ensure that any associates that we employ take account of sustainability issues in their advice to clients.

• Make available a copy of our Sustainable Policy to all of our customers and suppliers..