Environmental Policy Statement

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JJP Contractors are committed to protecting the environment by complying with all relevant legislation and meeting the standards relating to the environment in accordance with codes of practice set out in relation to environmental protection.

We recognise the need to be a sustainable business. We have a committed outlook that requires our working procedures to be frequently reviewed and adapted to reflect the continual impact on the environment within our field of working operations.

As a company, working on building and civil engineering projects, we pledge to commit to sustainability whilst undertaking the critical balance of business success and our responsibility to the environment and to protect the health and safety of our employees and the public in general with continual improvement in environmental performance.

To implement this policy JJP Contractors will:

• Comply with current legislation, regulations, codes of practice, Environmental Agency guidance and our own company operating procedures on environmental matters relevant to our activities.
• Set annual environmental objectives and targets and monitor performance against these objectives and targets.
• Carry out environmental impact assessments of site activities and produce an action plan to cover what changes can be made to reduce the effect.
• Reduce the environmental impacts of our actions by identification of significant operational impacts and aspects, adopting reasonable controls including prevention of pollution.
• Actively reduce carbon emissions through innovation, design, technology and choice of plant and materials. Making use of opportunities to minimise waste and to reuse or recycle materials.
• Ensure all employees, management, senior management and staff are aware of environmental issues and the procedures that will be followed. This will be achieved through awareness training will be encouraged within a duty of care philosophy.
• Work to minimise the consumption of natural resources by Implementing our sustainable procurement policy for materials procured.

We are committed to continually improve both on the execution of environmental performance and meeting client satisfaction. To achieve this Jonpaul O’Donnell and Michael Galligan will maintain, monitor and regularly review the effectiveness of the Environmental Management Systems to ensure continued suitability to the work processes of JJP Contractors.

JJP Contractors continue to meet the needs of today without compromising the needs of tomorrow.

The environmental performance of the company will be monitored by Jonpaul O’Donnell and Michael Galligan and will be reviewed on an annual basis as a minimum and updated as either legislation or environmental codes of practice change along with advances in technologies.