Health & safety bulletin
Carbon Footprint
25th September 2008
In March 2007, we embarked on a programme to initially measure and understand our company carbon footprint, and then set about reducing it.
Following investigation with World Resources Institute, Carbon Trust, Environmental Defence Fund and DEFRA, we established that logically, the more successful we are at winning work, the more sites we have to attend and the higher our company's carbon footprint.
After many discussions, we decided to integrate the measurement of our data into the XmoMan data and safety management information system. We have been able to determine Co2 usage per man day per month of all employees and subcontractors, including travel to and from work.
All timesheets from employees and subcontractors are now recorded and all site attendances are automatically plotted (by project, by customer, or as a whole) using integrated grid references onto a UK map. This allows us to identify where greater efficiency could have been achieved.
Like many companies, we have a long way to go to fully understanding the full implications of achieving carbon efficiency, however, our records do indicate that we have managed to achieve a 31% saving per man day per month since we started addressing the issue. Our customers will benefit too with the increased efficiencies associated with the new XmoMan mapping technology.