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ANAGEMENT
KPIs: % materials use, % efficiency, % ongoing for an energy efficiency 10 years and in January 2007 over
utilisation, % variance accreditation scheme 129,031 organisations had signed up to
• Refurbishment of one of the ISO140011, 5389 to EMAS2 and
4. Staff: Ginsters staff is an travelling band ovens has reduced approximately 237 to BS8555 Acorn
absolutely vital part of the its energy demand by 25% Scheme3. The increasing trend of EMS
business. Staff turnover is • KW hours / tonne product has uptake suggests that organisations are
wastefully high and foreign reduced from 2512 to 2003 starting to attribute real value to
national labour is a significant • Board has approved a renewables accredited environmental management
component in the workforce. initiative for on site steam systems. Will the publication of BS8900:
Employee conditions, the well-being of generation from waste. Three 2006 encourage businesses to adopt
employees, local workforce involvement in alternatives are being assessed. sustainable development
community affairs, and company • Ginsters has become one of management systems?
involvement with charitable activities are Envirowise’s hosts for the Supplier The feeling amongst the five
important. So too is the importance of the Chain Management Programme companies and five mentors taking part
way staff view their company’s progress in • Waste cooking oils now go to a was that the draft standard lacked
becoming more sustainable. local company making bio-diesel, management systems structure and
KPIs: Annual Staff Survey, Staff and the use of bio-diesel is being verification details. Confusing or
Turnover assessed for company vehicles. academic terminology were seen as
• Waste plastic is being baled and weaknesses. In our experience,
5. Waste: the company produces a recycled by a nearby company organisations relate relatively well to
number of different waste streams and waste plastic buckets go to a systems that integrate with a management
as a result of its processes. Some local scrap-store systems structure. A standard that lacks
of these wastes are subject to • Energy efficient lighting has been this structure will struggle to deal with the
legislation that makes their installed in the spice room and operational complexities of implementing
disposal problematic, with the will be phased in and and operating a system that conforms to
constant pressure to divert wastes monitored elsewhere the standard. Most organisations
from landfill whilst minimising, • An electric motor replacement pursuing corporate social responsibility
recycling and reuse becoming a policy has been agreed, type initiatives such as ISO14001, EMAS
priority. improving energy consumption by or BS8555 do so as they offers
KPIs: Waste (kg) per tonne of product reducing rewinds. verified recognition.
produced, % of total waste recycled. • In 2006 Ginsters won the In summer 2007 Horizon invited
Cornwall Sustainable Professor David Jackman, principal author
Implementation of the action plan will Business award. of BS8900.2006, to give a workshop on
be taken forward through the established the standard. This workshop illustrated
Environmental Action Team’ EMS and In mid-programme BSI published a much better than the standard itself how
eventually incorporated into an integrated draft for a Sustainable Management much it is designed to address values and
management system. Systems standard, BS8900. For Horizon it culture, rather than systems, and to sit
raised some questions: over the top of other more sector specific
SOME IMMEDIATE SUCCESSES: • How do you encourage businesses and detailed standards to follow in the
• Distribution are trialling a to look beyond environmental BS series.
paperless system performance: is there demand for Although Horizon’s Sustain toolkit
• Route planning using a new Road sustainable management systems? cannot provide any verification detail it
Traffic Management system is in • Do companies want a standard does provide a step-by-step approach to
place to avoid traffic hold-ups and they can be accredited to? implementing a sustainability
supermarkets rejecting late loads • If there is demand for both, how management system which should satisfy
• New video conferencing would the new standard fit with most of the criteria set out in
equipment is being tested Sustain, the toolkit we had BS8900:2006.
• Upgrades to effluent treatment already developed? In other words, if BS8900:2006
has reduced waste water Thomas, who mentored Property describes values and some of ‘what’ you
concentration to half the consent Consultants Alder King through the same have to do, Horizon’s Sustain toolkit
level Sustain programme writes: the uptake of provides a simple practical route into
• Energy management surveys are EMSs has been progressive over the past ‘how’ to do it.
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