SUSTAINABILITY Policy

 Obligations

Our workplace and its Directors (Officers) and people in positions of influence and responsibility are committed to being socially, economically and environmentally responsible throughout all sectors of our company.

Life Cycle Management

Life cycle management is applied to our service to improve products and services, while enhancing the overall sustainability performance of the business and its value chains. ACRO Refrigeration are ambitious and committed to reducing our environmental and socio- economic burden while maximizing economic and social value. In this regard, LCM is used beyond the short-term business success; rather it aims at taking businesses forward towards long-term achievements and sustainable value creation.

Social Sustainability

We have an obligation to be socially responsible, not just for those who are directly involved in the construction industry but also for the wider aspects of social issues that encompass our industry. Our commitments to social sustainability include:

• Promoting a positive image of the industry, especially among young people in our local area.
• Recruiting, engaging, training and creating opportunities for young persons.
• Promoting social responsibility through community engagement schemes.
• Help tackle social issues through charity fundraising and volunteering with community organisations like Rotary International

Economic Sustainability

Our commitments to economic sustainability include:

• Source local suppliers to our projects, obtaining resources from local businesses.
• Employ, train and develop local workers
• Promote economic responsibility through the construction industry.

Environmental Sustainability

• Improve energy efficiency through considerate use of energy dependent operations.
• Minimise GHG emissions through considerate use of fossil fuels with energy efficient equipment and good general housekeeping.
• Minimise water usage throughout the company including head office and site.
• Promoting environmental awareness within the company through education of environmental issues and solutions.
• Promote pollution awareness through education and prevent pollution where possible through mitigation strategies.
• Procuring plant and materials responsibly at the purchase stage of projects to reflect sustainable products and energy efficient plant.
• Procure recycled materials where possible to reduce the impact of material production on the environment.
• Adhere to the recognised waste hierarchy;
• Eliminate: Not to create unnecessary waste.
• Reduce: Reduce the materials that are over-ordered, reduce the materials that are damages by instituting improved storage methods and minimising the waste of raw materials.
• Re-Use: Re-use waste materials on other sites or investigate third party usage for large quantities.
• Re-Cycle: Re-cycle materials wherever possible, general waste processed by a third part for further reclamation of materials.
• Dispose: Ensure that our waste is disposed legally and in a responsible manner.

We have been working with our clients and suppliers to obtain more sustainable products for our projects. These materials include more technically advanced products resulting in greater sustainability, using more recycled materials saving on manufacture impacts and waste material impacts, procuring materials locally for our projects where available and estimating our material needs more accurately so as not to over order.

Transportation on our sites is also becoming more sustainable, where we strive to reduce the vehicular impact on the environment and on the infrastructure network. To tackle transportation we use as few vehicles as possible where our operatives are from areas as local to the projects as possible and journeys are shared as much as possible. We also strive to make sure our commercial vehicles are as efficient as possible renewing them every three years to ensure they are using the most up to date vehicles with regards to fuel efficiency.

All Workers are responsible and will be held accountable for assistance in implementing this policy. Management will be responsible for actioning any requests or environmental issues raised from Workers.  This will be measured by performance reviews by way of Quarterly Reviews.

Management and people in positions of influence and responsibility will:

• Be involved in developing, promoting and implementing sustainability policies and procedures
• Train Workers in sustainable methods to perform their work tasks
• Provide adequate  resources and  information  to  meet  our  workplaces'  commitment  to  sustainability

Workers will:

• Follow all  procedures detailed within the our workplace Sustainability Policy  and Procedures
• Report any environmental hazard, incident  or unsafe work practice to Management as they occur.

Application of Our Workplace Sustainability Policy

This policy applies to our workplace and all its operations, which then applies in situations where Workers are required to perform work functions off site.

Consultation

As per the relevant Environmental legislation and Codes of Practice, our workplace understands and is committed to consultation with all its Workers with regard to environmental practices. This workplace has Managers who will be the first point of contact for all Workers regarding issues relating to the environment.

This policy shall be reviewed on an annual basis.