Orica Sustainability Report 2010 covers social, economic and environmental sustainability. It outlines Orica’s targets and performance in sustainability indicators such as: Community complaints Community engagement Human rights Labour practices Product stewardship Value chain The web site also provides a range of case studies on sustainability initiatives. See www.orica.com/sustainability … [Read more...]
BHP Billiton sustainability framework and reports
BHP Billiton outlines its approach to society, sustainability and climate change and provides downloads of sustainability reports. See http://www.bhpbilliton.com/society … [Read more...]
National Pollutant Inventory reporting requirements (NPI)
Businesses have to report on their emissions and waste transfers if they trip the reporting thresholds which are defined for 93 substances, rates of burning waste and fuel and the rate and type of electricity usage. A series of Emission Estimation Technique (EET) manuals have been developed for each reporting industry. These outline the industry processes, various methods for estimating emissions and equations for converting different types of measurement. The full list of manuals is … [Read more...]
ISO 14000 Set:2005 Environmental Management Standards set
The ISO 14000 family of standards addresses various aspects of environmental management which aims to control and improve the environmental performance of an organisation as measured against objectives. The standards are voluntary. The family of standards includes: ISO 1400 1 :2004 Environmental Management Systems (requirements) ISO 14004:2004 Environmental Management Systems (guidelines) ISO 14050:2009 Environmental management - Vocabulary ISO 14040:2006 Environmental … [Read more...]
ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Guidance Standard
ISO 26000 is an International Standard giving guidance on social responsibility - what it means, what issues an organisation needs to address in order to operate in a socially responsible manner, and what is best practice. It contains voluntary guidance, not requirements, and therefore is not a certification standard like ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004. http://www.iso.org/iso/social_responsibility … [Read more...]
Santos environmental impact assessment
Santos has published an Environmental Impact Assessment for the Gladstone LNG project which identifies how it will manage potential negative community impact. It includes: Cultural heritage management plans that will be developed with relevant Aboriginal parties. The aim is to prevent any harm to cultural heritage items or areas, however if that cannot be achieved then a harm minimisation approach will be adopted. Social management plans which detail how Santos will monitor the social … [Read more...]
