Environmental Management System

Environmental Management System

We recognise that our activities inevitably have an impact on the environment, and therefore, we believe that environmental issues are everyone’s responsibility at Arkadin. As such, environmental management has to be fully incorporated in our business processes. Our environmental approach is based on internal core values and external standards.

The Arkadin Environmental Management System (EMS) was officially certified to ISO 14001 standards in 2009. Our EMS provides a framework through which our environmental performance is controlled, monitored and is a continual process with the goal for all Arkadin regions to be covered by the certification by 2011.

The Arkadin EMS consists of:

• Arkadin's Environmental Policy
• Classification of environmental aspects, and evaluation of their significance
• Objectives and programs for achieving environmental targets
• Compliance with legal and other regulatory requirements
• Audits, management reviews, and continuous improvement
• Operational management for waste, energy and water consumption

The goal of the Arkadin EMS is to improve our environmental performance and to identify opportunities to reduce the amount of waste we produce, focusing on:

• Energy consumption
• Water consumption
• Waste management
• Business travel emissions