Environmental Management Policy

Hyper­stream Lim­ited recog­nises that our oper­a­tions have an effect on the local, regional and global envi­ron­ment. Hyper­stream ensures that all staff are trained in our envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment pol­icy and given guid­ance on its imple­men­ta­tion. Hyper­stream is com­mit­ted to min­imis­ing the envi­ron­men­tal impact and actively apply greener tech­nolo­gies in their day to day operations.

Hyper­stream believe that busi­nesses are respon­si­ble for achiev­ing good envi­ron­men­tal prac­tice and need to oper­ate in a sus­tain­able man­ner. We are there­fore com­mit­ted to reduc­ing our envi­ron­men­tal impact and con­tin­u­ally improve on our envi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance as an inte­gral and fun­da­men­tal part of our busi­ness strat­egy and oper­at­ing methods.

The Com­pany Direc­tor Alan Son is respon­si­ble for the over­all imple­men­ta­tion and mon­i­tor­ing of Envi­ron­men­tal Management.

Cur­rent envi­ron­men­tal reg­u­la­tions, laws and codes of prac­tice will be regarded as set­ting the min­i­mum stan­dards of envi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance such as Duty of Care Regulations.

Hyper­stream cur­rent pol­icy requires all mem­bers of staff to:

• Take action to reduce the car­bon foot­print of our busi­ness activ­i­ties through ensur­ing that com­puter equip­ment whilst not in use is switched of at the end of the day, screen saver with power sav­ing mode enabled.

Hyperstream’s pro­ce­dure around waste man­age­ment gen­er­ated from our busi­ness oper­a­tions is in accor­dance with the prin­ci­ples of reduc­tion, re-use and recy­cling. We pro­vide recy­cling facil­i­ties to employ­ees and ensure that paper, cans, ton­ers, glass bot­tles, bat­ter­ies and any other prod­ucts that are recy­clable are being recycled.

Hyper­stream ensures that non recy­clable waste is being dis­posed of in a respon­si­ble man­ner, ensur­ing that we always com­ply with the Duty of Care Regulations.

Hyper­stream gives due con­sid­er­a­tion to envi­ron­men­tal issues and energy per­for­mance in the design of their busi­ness, i.e. Hyper­stream uses energy effi­cient soft­ware in which Open Source soft­ware is play­ing a major part in pro­vid­ing more effi­cient solu­tions, sav­ing energy. The com­puter suite has been designed in view of being energy effi­cient i.e. all com­put­ers, printer and scan­ners and other elec­tri­cal equip­ment are cur­rently fit­ted in with intel­li­gent plugs to cut unnec­es­sary energy pol­lu­tion and save elec­tric­ity. Addi­tion­ally Hyper­stream encour­ages use of elec­tronic com­mu­ni­ca­tion when­ever pos­si­ble and cut down on travel. Most of our mon­i­tor­ing and project man­age­ment sys­tems are set up in the way that they can be viewed online to reduce the need for paper.

Hyper­stream imple­mented mea­sures to help the busi­ness and its employ­ees to use ‘green trans­port’, for exam­ple, pro­vided a pooled facil­ity for cyclists, pur­chase and use of elec­tric bike, car shar­ing, and encour­ag­ing staff to use pub­lic trans­port to reduce CO2 emissions.

Hyper­stream ensures it is com­pli­ant with envi­ron­men­tal laws and reg­u­la­tions and mon­i­tors and reviews the envi­ron­men­tal pol­icy to reduce the car­bon footprint.

To ensure that Hyper­stream meets the above com­mit­ments, we:
Com­mu­ni­cate the impor­tance of envi­ron­men­tal issues to our staff and other busi­nesses we are pro­vide ser­vices.
Work together with our employ­ees, ser­vice part­ners, sup­pli­ers, to pro­mote improved envi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance.
Pro­mote appro­pri­ate con­sid­er­a­tion of sus­tain­abil­ity and envi­ron­men­tal issues in the ser­vices we pro­vide to our clients.

Research new trends, sus­tain­able designs and look at ways of appli­ca­tion in our busi­ness plan.
Review envi­ron­men­tal poli­cies and per­for­mance on a reg­u­lar basis and allo­cate resources for their effec­tive direc­tion and implementation.

This state­ment rep­re­sents our gen­eral posi­tion on envi­ron­men­tal issues, and the poli­cies and prac­tices we apply in con­duct­ing our business.

Alan Son
Man­ag­ing Director

Next review date:  Sep­tem­ber 2011