Pac Fire Australia Pty Ltd (Pac Fire) was established in 2000 with the founding vision of supplying the highest quality PPE/C to Australia’s emergency service workers. This core motivation has led Pac Fire to represent the standard for excellence in the PPE/C industry. Our vision is to be respected as an ethical and sustainable company.
This Policy documents our commitment to improving our environmental performance and is consistent with our environmental objectives. Pac Fire continues its commitment to reducing any adverse environmental impact of our operations through continually improving business practices.
This policy is based on the following five principles.
1. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IS EVERYONE’S RESPONSIBILITY
Effective environmental actions require management leadership, individual and team responsibility. It is everyone’s responsibility to be aware of the impact of their activities, to take action to reduce adverse impacts and to suggest improvements. Our senior management team are accountable for our environmental performance.
2. COMMITMENT TO CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND POLLUTION PREVENTION
We are committed to continual improvement to enhance our environmental performance and will continue to reduce any adverse impacts of our operations and products through all aspects of our business. Senior management will identify, implement and promote the best practice environmental management systems and operations taking into consideration views of interested parties. We work to minimise waste and prevent pollution at all stages of our business operation.
3. MEASURABLE AND MEANINGFUL
Pac Fire is continuously improving its products, services and systems to ensure that they meet or exceed the expectations that we have presented to our customers, by monitoring progress and reporting against a set of regularly reviewed objectives and targets. We will focus on issues that provide the greatest reductions in our impacts and while no areas of business is excluded from this mandate, the use of energy, raw materials, hazardous substances, mains water and waste minimisation are key focus areas.
4. INNOVATION FOR IMPROVEMENTS
In seeking out new technologies and suppliers Pac Fire will continue to focus on technologies that reduce impacts on the environment and minimise hazards to the users of our products. Consideration for the environment will be one of the core tenets of our company for all aspects of our business.
5. COMPLIANCE OBLIGATIONS
We are committed to operating our business in compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements, codes of practice and voluntary agreements and in a manner that protects the quality of the environment, and the health and safety of our employees, our associates and the general public. To do this we have chosen to implement an environmental management system based on ISO 14001 principles.
Last updated 19.09.2022
