Environmental Policy

SeaDog IT
Environmental Policy

1. Purpose

To provide an effective framework for understanding SeaDog IT’s commitment to protecting and where possible enhancing the environment by reducing the Companies’ environmental impacts, preventing pollution, mitigating and adapting to climate change and low carbon futures. 

2. Scope

The rights and obligations set out in this policy apply equally to all employees, whether part time or full time on a substantive or fixed-term contract, and also to associated persons such as secondees, contractors and others employed under a contract of service. 

You have personal responsibility for the application of this policy. You are expected to read and familiarise yourself with this policy, ensure that this policy is properly observed and fully complied with.

3. Policy

SeaDog IT is a company that recognises that its activities impact the environment in a number of ways, principally through our use of energy:

• in the buildings we occupy, and
• business travel,
• information communication technology hardware (ICT)

In recognising this, SeaDog IT is committed to protecting the environment and continually improving its environmental performance by:

• ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation and standards, and the expectations of our customers
• ensuring our systems and procedures prevent pollution
• ensuring our suppliers are able and are encouraged to support our environmental commitments
• ensuring we continually review how we can make improvements to our environmental performance

Specifically we will:

• reduce energy consumption across our offices through staff awareness and improved controls
• reduce business travel miles through better journey planning
• reduce paper consumption through staff awareness and increased use of electronic communication and data storage
• rationalise our use of ICT hardware and ensure that all waste electrical & electronic equipment is reused or recycled where possible

To realise our environmental objectives SeaDog IT both recognises the need for and is committed to communicating our environmental objectives to our suppliers, employees, and customers. This is achieved via our existing communication channels to employees including the project management boards (Trello), team briefings and the staff discussion.

This policy and the actions arising from it will be annually reviewed.