There is strong consensus within the scientific community that rising world temperatures are caused by human activity. For this reason, we’re committed to doing our part to reduce carbon emissions. We believe this makes good sense environmentally and economically.
We have recently developed our Environmental Management System in line with ISO 14001:2015.
Process Safety Solutions have calculated* that their sources of our carbon emissions are:
- Gas and electricity use in buildings - 84.0%
- Vehicle use - 10.5%
- Air and rail travel** - 5.4%
- Printing, paper, etc - 0.1%
*Carbon emissions calculated August 2022.
**Offshore travel via Helicopter has not been included in the above figures as this has been deemed a carbon emission assigned to the asset operator.
Since office buildings are responsible for most of PSS CO2 emissions, we have made changes to how we manage energy by introducing new processes to aid in the reduction of costs and carbon.
We have taken / are in the process of taking the following steps to cut our emissions:
- Appointed a carbon champion to identify areas of improvements in our buildings and communicate the messages.
- Set up the Environmental Performance Improvement Fund which our carbon champion can apply for money from the fund to carry out improvements to our buildings.
- Moved all of our buildings to a green energy contract where the electricity used is generated using a renewable source, in most cases wind power.
- Install solar panels on our buildings.
- Expanded our video conference facilities and made deliberate cuts to our travel budgets to reduce travel.
- Switching company vehicles to electric and installing charging points.
We have changed / are in the process of changing our ways of working:
- Only travel when necessary and use video conferencing for meetings as the preferred method.
- Control heat and power in our buildings.
- Recycle paper, card, metals and plastics.
- Train new staff about our environmental and carbon reduction policy.
- Challenge those who don’t follow the policy.
Monitoring, reporting and reducing emissions is important. The carbon champion has the following responsibilities:
- Report to senior management team on environmental issues and achievements.
- Provide quarterly reports detailing carbon emissions generated from the different business activities.
- Conduct environmental impact assessments to identify potential environmental risks to UK and international projects.
It is estimated that the above activities will lead to a significant reduction of the operating carbon footprint of Process Safety Solutions.
