Sustainability Policy.

Sustainability Policy

ASM Engineering Ltd believe and formally acknowledge that we have a responsibility to conduct our operations in a sustainable way to ensure the long term viability of our business, the continued use of steel in construction and to protect our working and living environment.

Our key areas of sustainable responsibility are:

Environmental

Our environmental responsibility is to minimise any negative impact our business has on the environment by means of effective waste management, efficient design methodology and continuous development of our products and manufacturing processes.

Economic

An economic responsibility to ensure our business grows in a controlled and profitable manner. Integral to this responsibility is our commitment to the implementation and maintenance of our own sustainability policy and encouragement to our supply chain network to implement their own sustainability policy.

Social

Our social responsibilities are to ensure sufficient resources are available to protect our employees in their place of work and provide support and assistance to our local community and minimise the impact of our business on our neighbours.

The Board of Directors regard the promotion of compatibility between:

• the environment,
• our processes and products,
• the generated waste produced by our business, as a mutual objective for personnel at all levels.

It is the policy of the Company, by adopting the following actions, to do all that is reasonably practicable to reduce or prevent adverse reactions, on the environment, attributable to the running of our business:

• by the re-cycling of all scrap steel / off-cuts etc., by steel producers,
• by the re-cycling of all office generated waste paper, under contract with registered re-cycling contractor,
• by disposition of all waste / scrap, under the ‘Duty of Care’ Regulations, in compliance with Environmental Protection Act:1990,and the Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005,
• by maximising the efficient use of available power and fuel supplies, and
• by keeping abreast of Statutory Legislation / Regulations and initiating any changes deemed necessary.

It is the policy of ASM Engineering Ltd to review this Policy Statement on a regular basis and strive for continual improvement in matters of environmental and sustainability performance.