Performance
- Health and Safety
Approach
We are committed to providing a safe working environment for our employees and maintaining a proactive employee communications strategy to stimulate continuous improvement and promote and develop good health, safety and environmental practices.
Comprehensive health, safety and environmental audits are carried out at all recently acquired businesses and regular update audits are conducted at all other major facilities. The results of the audits and their follow up are monitored by the Laird Technologies Risk Management Committee. Health, safety and environmental training is provided, and reinforced via refresher courses where necessary, to designated employees and focuses on the perceived risk within each business.
2011 Health and Safety achievements
- Laird's Shanghai EMI site won the "Safety Production Advance Enterprise" award from the Xinzhuang Industrial Zone Administration Committee in March
- Our Cleveland and Schaumburg, USA facilities both achieved IMS certification to ISO 14001 / OHSAS 18001 standards. Fourteen major Laird facilities now hold active Integrated Management Systems (IMS) certifications status.
- Charity and Community
Approach
The well-being of the communities in which the Group operates is important to its long term development and success. The Cheif Human Resources Officer is responsible for all community matters.
During the year Laird gave £2,288 to UK charities (2010, £5,460) and £22,769 to charities worldwide.
Examples of charitable/community initiatives
- sponsored walks and holiday gift programmes
- donation of funds to tornado relief efforts in Joplin, Missouri, USA and to earthquake relief efforts in Japan
- local nature reserve conservancy efforts
- support of educational projects
- Environmental
Approach
Laird is committed to pursuing high standards of environmental performance including the maintenance of safe and healthy working environments. Laird’s minimum requirements are for its businesses to comply with local legislation and to operate continuous improvement programmes, to ensure that efficient use is made of all resources, including energy, water and raw materials, that emissions are restricted to within best practice levels and waste is minimised.
Adoption of International Management Systems
Laird has fourteen facilities accredited to Integrated Management Systems certification status to ISO 14001 / OHSAS 18001 standards. All of these facilities successfully completed re-certification or surveillance audits during the year. This is in addition to the majority of our main manufacturing facilities being ISO 9000 and ISO 9001 certified.
2011 Highlights
- No major environmental compliance issues at any Laird facility during 2011.
- Cleveland and Schaumburg, USA facilities both achieved IMS certification to ISO 14001 / OHSAS 18001 standards.
- As part of our environmental strategy to target reductions in energy usage, our Shenzhen, China manufacturing facility adapted its processes to eliminate the usage of approximately 7,000 litres of diesel fuel per month and in turn reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, with exhaust air from onsite air compressors now utilised to heat water.