Environmental, health, and safety considerations are integral to our business and must be woven into the daily life of every Boart Longyear employee. We recognize our responsibility to protect the communities in which we operate, to conserve natural resources, and to comply with applicable laws and regulations so that people today and generations to come will have a sustainable future. Boart Longyear is committed to upholding these principles.
Boart Longyear employees at all levels must work to ensure that we comply with applicable environmental laws and regulations and to continuously improve our environmental performance wherever we do business.
Employees are accountable for ensuring compliance with applicable environmental regulations and for managing and operating our businesses to conform to the company's goals to:
- Practice sound drilling principles
- Reduce pollution
- Conserve natural resources through recycling and waste reduction.
In conducting our business, we commit to:
- Understand, respond to and minimize public health and environmental impacts of our operations and our products.
- Ensure that employees are trained and empowered to actively participate in the company's environmental management process.
- Actively support environmental research and technological advancement and, where appropriate, adopt innovative practices and technology.
- Promote the development and adoption of environmental laws, policies and regulations that are balanced, technically sound, and use incentive-based approaches for improving environmental performance.
- Continuously improve our processes for reducing wastes
and emissions to the environment. - Conserve energy and natural resources by maximizing recycling and by-product reuse.
- Adopt internal standards for situations not adequately covered by law or regulation, or where we believe more stringent measures are necessary to protect the environment.
