Environmental and Sustainability Policy

Our Mission

Our mission is to achieve best practice in employee relations, workplace standards, training and development, equality diversity and disability as well environmental policies for staff and students. Life Line Training & Operations recognises the importance and requirement to reduce the environmental impacts on society in addition to increasing social value (see our policy on Social value), and to conduct operations in an environmentally-sustainable manner, in order to protect the environment for present and future generation, complying with all relevant UK government environmental policies, legislation and guidance.

Aims

We will consider the environmental impacts prior to making any business decisions and to Integrate the consideration of environmental concerns and impacts into all of our decision making and activities, in addition to promoting environmental awareness among our employees and encourage them to work in an environmentally responsible manner, this includes training and educating our employees about environmental issues that may affect their work and to encourage our workforce to develop new ideas and initiatives. By implementing and embedding our sustainable development strategy we aim to continually improve our environmental performance, whilst progressively reducing our overall environmental impact.

We aim: -

· To conserve energy.

· To conserve water.

· To minimise and effectively manage waste.

· To promote sustainable transport options.

· To conserve materials and resources.

· comply with all relevant environmental legislation/regulation.

Actions

To conserve energy (Energy Use)

We will:

· monitor our energy usage on an ongoing basis.

· ensure all lights and electrical devices are switched off at the end of the day or when not in use.

· Switch off heating when the building is not in use.

· Switch off lights and use natural lighting wherever possible

· use energy-efficient light bulbs wherever possible.

· purchase and use energy-efficient equipment wherever possible.

· Open doors and or windows in place of fans if office or training rooms becomes too warm

· Encourage staff to wear cool clothing in warmer months.

· Encourage staff to wear warm clothing in colder months.

· use an energy supplier that provides certified 100% renewable energy and carbon neutral gas.

· Encourage staff to bring along cool foods to minimize warming food in a microwave

1 - Water Use

We will:

· monitor our water usage.

· Maintain and consume hot water from a flask minimising the use of a kettle

2. Waste Management

We will:

· recycle cardboard, glass, paper, plastics and food waste.

· recycle printer cartridges.

· ensure hazardous items (e.g., chemicals, fluorescent tubes, batteries, electrical items) are disposed of safely (and recycled where possible).

· use environmentally friendly cleaning products and other products such as reusable cloths.

· where possible donate unused food such as foodbanks.

· Left over in date fluids such as Milk is offered to all staff.

· Promote the minimisation of food waste throughout the company by encouraging staff to only purchase what they need without purchasing 3 for 1 deals unless they know that these will be used and research and prepare meals that incorporate any leftover foods, or alternatively freeze any leftovers

3. Transport

We will:

· encourage staff to use public transport to travel to meetings and events wherever practical.

· encourage visitors/ clients/ to use public transport, car share or ride a bike to reach place of work or training room.

· coordinate meeting timings and locations to minimise travel.

· hold remote (online) meetings where possible to minimise staff travel.

· ensure staff only attend meetings when necessary.

· Encourage staff to cycle to work.

· use local food suppliers, maintenance, and service professionals where possible to reduce their transport use.

· Provide staff with flexibility (working from home) where practical.

4. Materials and Resources

We will:

· monitor our use of printed publicity materials and minimise using digital versions wherever possible.

· as a responsible organisation we reuse all our examination question papers resulting in less printing costs and less waste

· reuse Polly pockets

· minimise the printing of reports and documents.

· distribute meeting agendas and minutes electronically.

· buy recycled equipment and products.

· use rechargeable batteries where possible.

· use non-disposable plates and cutlery at events (or cardboard/ bio-degradable materials if this is not possible.)

· track paper printing to ensure unnecessary printing is not taking place.

· use double-sided printing and back-to-back photocopying to minimise use of paper.

Ensure the use of recycled printing paper is encouraged and adopted.

Use a local ICO registered company for shredding waste with BSEN151713 accreditation

Accountability

The implementation of this policy will be ensured by:

· Clear communication to staff at induction and on an ongoing basis of the contents of this policy.

· The appointment of a responsible person (Deborah Thomas) to supervise our environmental performance.

·         The inclusion of environmental issues as an agenda item at company meetings at least once a year.
·         Specific responsibilities and actions will be allocated to staff members to ensure they are implemented.
·         Ensuring we continually improve our environmental performance and minimise the social impact and damage of activities by periodically reviewing our environmental policy in light of our current and planned future activities.

Debbie Thomas

Managing Director

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Barbara Rees

Worthy of a five star rating

I recently attended a Mental Health Awareness course with Lifeline. This is the second course I have attended through this company, the first being an EFAW course. Yet again Andrew proved to be not only extremely knowledgeable and professional, but patient and empathetic, with a nice way of involving the participants without making them feel awkward or embarrassed. I highly recommend this company and would not think of using any other training company should the need arise.

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Had my first, first aid course today and it was thoroughly enjoyable. The trainer who was named Kynan was very friendly, made us feel at ease while giving us lots of information throughout the day and was open to as many questions as we wanted to ask. Come away feeling a lot more confident knowing if an incident happened I’d be able to help someone in need. Highly recommend anyone to go on a course with life line training and I am definitely going to look into more training they have on offer. Thanks again

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