Our Commitment
voestalpine Metsec is committed to undertaking its activities in an efficient and financially sustainable manner in-line with environmental best practice and meeting the requirements of ISO 14001.
voestalpine Metsec plc’s foremost objective is to satisfy customers with high quality product and engineering services capable of designing, building and maintaining product and systems that will meet their quality, safety, environmental and reliability needs.
voestalpine Metsec plc aim to achieve those needs in a safe, responsible, sustainable and environmentally sound way, in accordance with the company’s Quality, Health, Safety, Environmental (QHSE) and Responsible Sourcing policies and procedures.
Quality, Health, Safety and the Environment are considered to be of utmost importance and voestalpine Metsec plc shall actively promote and administer a strong Quality, Health, Safety, Environmental and Ethical culture amongst staff, visitors and sub-contractors.
Environmental & Sustainability Policy
To assure these objectives are realised, voestalpine Metsec plc have established an Integrated Management System in accordance with PAS 99: 2012, which incorporates the requirements of BS EN ISO 9001 for Quality Management, BS EN ISO 14001 for Environmental Management, ISO 50001 Energy Management system and ISO 45001 for Health & Safety Management.
voestalpine Metsec Quality, Health, Safety, Environmental and Energy Management Policy Statement
Energy Use and CO2 Emissions
CO2 Emissions By Year
Total Energy kWh/Tonne By Year
Training & Development
voestalpine Metsec’s training & development programmes support the delivery of business strategy and are designed to meet the requirements of individual departments in the pursuit of their objectives. voestalpine Metsec also recognises the important and significant contributions that can be made by a well-trained and proficient workforce and also the additional benefits gained by the individual from enhanced confidence in their own ability to perform well within the specific job role.
Training and development of all employees is therefore pivotal to the success of the business and of key importance to the Company. In order to assist employees to achieve their potential in line with Company requirements, a range of approaches will be used, which include:
Training Request per Employee
- Gaining appropriate work experience
- Apprenticeship scheme
- On the job training
- Attending courses
- Development of management and vocational skills
- Studying for professional and technical qualifications
The measure of performance voestalpine Metsec have chosen is training days per employee, this will be reviewed each financial year and the aim is to increase the number of training days per employee and therefore achieve our aim of attaining a well-trained and proficient workforce.
Click here to find out about our Apprenticeship scheme.
Water Consumption
As part of voestalpine Metsec plc’s Waste minimisation and sustainability programme waste to landfill was highlighted as an area where significant improvements could be made.
Total Waste off site per Tonne Produced
At the start of the programme, in 2007, 120 skips were sent to landfill in 1 year. By using the waste hierarchy of “Prevent, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recovery and Disposal” voestalpine Metsec was able to focus on waste. Through internal promotional campaigns on preventing waste, reusing products, recycling of paper, wood, cardboard, recovering energy through segregating items for incineration and finally disposing of what’s left, voestalpine Metsec were able to dramatically reduce the number of skips from 120 to just 12. This process is on-going through discussions with suppliers to reuse packaging, investing in products such as PPE and lighting which have longer life spans we have further reduced waste. Now voestalpine Metsec has a more robust format to measure waste, the result being from 2009-10 we disposed of 38 tonnes to landfill by 2014-15 this has reduced to 36 tonnes, and between 2015 to 2022 there has been zero to landfill.
Water Consumption in M3/Tonne Produced
Following an ARUP Sustainability review in 2007 it was highlighted that an area to target and reduce our impact on use of natural resources was water use. To this end we implemented a process of installing push taps, sinks with integral plugs and leak monitoring. Push taps were retro-fitted to existing sinks meaning taps could not be left running after use. Sinks with integral plugs were installed as historically plugs would get damaged or go missing. Leak monitoring and the monthly recording of water usage assisted in detecting water leaks and any abnormal usage patterns. We have also decommissioned our cooling tower and replaced it with an air blast cooling system. This has allowed Metsec to reduce water consumption by 60% since 2007.
NB: Figures currently under review as, due to our low water usage, our water supplier has switched us to estimated billing, with a meter reading once per year.