We firmly believe that good environmental management is everyone’s responsibility. The little things, like switching off office lights overnight and recycling packaging where possible, are just as important as the bigger things, such as planning new port facilities so as to minimise their effect on the environment.
We have introduced a twin-track training and education scheme within ABP that will provide both general environmental-awareness information for all employees and, for those with specific environmental management responsibilities, more in-depth formal training. The two aspects of our training and education scheme are set out below:
Intranet Environmental Awareness Package
In order to provide our personnel with a greater awareness of why ABP considers environmental issues to be so important, we have developed a short training package, which is available on our Intranet. This is designed to give a broad appreciation of how our business interests interact with environmental issues. It provides many useful examples of what people can do as part of their daily working lives to minimise their effects on those issues.
Ports Environmental Training
This training scheme is aimed at those employees within our ports with specific environmental responsibilities, namely our Environment Coordinators. The training package is divided into a number of modules and no prior environmental knowledge is necessary. The course provides useful information on each of the following topics:
- Environmental management within ABP
- Nature conservation designations
- Port operations and activities
- Pollution and waste
- Integrated Coastal Zone Management
All Environment Co-ordinators will receive full training, but a target of making sure that all Environment Co-ordinators had passed the introductory courses was achieved in 2002. We will be aiming to ensure that all Environment Co-ordinators receive further training in due course.
