Environmental Policy

Vorick Group Asset Maintenance Pty Limited (Vorick Group) provides electrical construction, maintenance and services across NSW. Our work affects the environment through waste and offcuts, hazardous items such as lamps and batteries, chemicals and fuel, energy use, and noise and dust on site. This policy applies to all our work and to everyone who works for us, including our subcontractors.

Our Commitments

• Comply with environmental law, including the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (NSW), and with our clients' environmental plans, site rules and contract conditions.
• Prevent pollution. Chemicals, oils and fuel come to site in day quantities with their safety data sheets. Spill kits are carried in our vehicles, and nothing goes into a stormwater drain.
• Reduce waste. We order to length and quantity, return cable drums and surplus stock to the supplier, sort site waste into the site's waste streams and recycle packaging.
• Recycle scrap copper, cable offcuts and metal through a metal recycler.
• Dispose of lamps, fluorescent tubes, batteries and electronic waste through licensed recyclers, never in general waste.
• Use energy and fuel carefully. We plan trips, maintain our vehicles and plant, switch off temporary power and lighting when it is not needed, and offer clients energy-efficient lighting and controls where the design allows.
• Keep noise and dust to what the task needs and within the site's hours and rules.

Objectives and Improvement

Each year the directors set measurable environmental objectives, such as the share of scrap metal recycled and the number of environmental incidents. We track them and review them with this policy. Anyone can stop work that could harm the environment. Every spill or environmental incident is reported on our incident report form, investigated and fixed at its cause.

Responsibilities

• The directors lead the environmental system, provide the people and resources it needs, and review how it is working.
• The supervisor on each job plans how waste, chemicals and spills are managed and checks that it is done.
• Every worker and subcontractor follows this policy and the site's environmental rules and reports any spill or harm straight away.

Review

This policy is explained at induction and is available to anyone who asks for it. We review it at least every two years, and sooner when our work, the law or our clients' requirements change.