PD Ports achieves environmental management system recognition

News Release PD Ports, Harbour Office Tees Dock (Port Operations Centre) June 1, 2012

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29 May 2012 - PD Ports has
recently been awarded the ISO 14001 Environmental
Management Systems (EMS) certification, one of the first UK ports
businesses to achieve
this qualification.
The award winning UK ports business achieved the ISO 14001
accreditation, guided and
advised by international environmental consultancy ENVIRON, who
provided support
throughout the implementation process, starting with a gap
analysis, drafting procedures,
training employees and undertaking legal compliance
evaluations.
Russ McCallion, PD Ports’ Human Resources Director, added: “For
about 18 months we
have been working hard on achieving formal accreditation for our
Environmental System to
ISO 14001 standards. This is an outstanding achievement for PD
Ports, and huge credit goes
to our team of Environmental Champions who have all done an
excellent job in making this
objective real and deliverable.
“This, of course, is only the start of our programme to achieve
and maintain excellence in the
management of our environmental obligations.”
Emma Goodchild, Manager at ENVIRON, said: “Our approach built on
PD Ports’ earlier
work in conservancy and its existing Health and Safety Management
system. It focused on
empowering staff to successfully implement the EMS within their
areas of
responsibility. This means that the Group now has an extremely
strong and capable team of
Environmental Champions, which was particularly commented upon by
the scheme’s
external auditors SGS.”
SGS also commented on the low number of minor non conformances
found across the Group
during the external auditing process, they said it was unusual to
find so few in businesses as
large and diverse as PD Ports at the initial accreditation
stage.
“Now that the ISO 14001 certification has been achieved, the plan
is to move towards
achieving cost savings and reducing carbon emissions through
better energy and resource
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