We operate to the highest ethical standards and aim to work with suppliers who share our commitments.

Our objective is to understand the social and environmental impacts of the materials and services we source and seek those with minimum negative impacts and maximum positive impacts.

We require all significant suppliers to agree to our Supplier Code of Conduct and are using EcoVadis to better understand the ESG risks and performance of our supply chain. We aim to assess the majority of our supply chain through this platform and are increasingly receiving product-level information through Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). We use the information in supplier EPDs to inform the embodied carbon measurements for our own buildings.

We have begun collaborating with our suppliers on improving their environmental impacts and will increase this as time goes on. Areas for improvement could include greenhouse gas emissions, waste, water use, chemicals of concern and biodiversity impact.

 

  1. Ethical Sourcing

     

    We operate to the highest ethical standards and aim to work with suppliers who share our commitments.

    Our objective is to understand the social and environmental impacts of the materials and services we source and seek those with minimum negative impacts and maximum positive impacts.

    We require all significant suppliers to agree to our Supplier Code of Conduct and are using EcoVadis to better understand the ESG risks and performance of our supply chain. We aim to assess the majority of our supply chain through this platform and are increasingly receiving product-level information through Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). We use the information in supplier EPDs to inform the embodied carbon measurements for our own buildings.

    We have begun collaborating with our suppliers on improving their environmental impacts and will increase this as time goes on. Areas for improvement could include greenhouse gas emissions, waste, water use, chemicals of concern and biodiversity impact.

  2. Responsible governance

     

    We implement strong governance throughout the business on matters relating to sustainability, ethical compliance, modern slavery and cyber security.

    We have established an executive governance structure for ESG within the business which includes the CEO, executive management team, Head of Governance and Head of Sustainability. They meet quarterly to discuss business performance against KPIs and key projects related to sustainability and provide high-level oversight of the sustainability programme.

    We have achieved EcoVadis “Committed” status, as a measure of our sustainability management system across four themes: labour and human rights, environment, sustainable procurement and ethics.

    We are continuously improving our performance against the group’s ethical compliance programme, including our approach to anti-corruption, economic crime compliance and modern slavery controls and education. We are committed to driving out acts of modern day slavery and human trafficking within our business and our supply chain, including suppliers and sub-contractors. Slavery includes; child labour, forced marriage, human trafficking, forced, bonded or involuntary prison labour.

    Read our Modern Slavery Statement here.

    We are also committed to protecting all data held by the business from attack or improper use through the implementation of robust cyber security protocols.

Fully inclusive and free
GET A QUOTE
Get your free brochures
DOWNLOAD
Book an appointment
BOOK
GET A QUOTE