Environmental partnership a hit Evening
Post Nov 2001
SWANSEA-BASED Gower Chemicals has played a major role in an £80,000
environment initiative.
Gower Chemicals helped one of its customers, Transco to achieve
"a significant improvement in the standard of risk control
associated with the special waste process", according to an
ISO 14001 surveillance audit.
The link also helped Transco save up to 15 percent in costs. A
partnership between Gower Chemicals and Transco over more than eight
months introduced new procedures for the disposal of hazardous waste.
As a result Transco won the focused action category at the annual
dinner of Business in the Community Wales and was praised for its
approach to health and safety in the workplace.
Paul Gatcliffe, Gower Chemical's waste management division business
manager, said "We are able to help Transco develop a new tracking
system for hazardous waste which includes a full audit trail right
through to ultimate disposal.
"This is an excellent example of how effective the provision
of total waste management consultancy can be and reflects our own
moves to develop our business in this direction."
Steve Hutchins, Transco's health, safety and environmental manager
for the South West added: "The new procedures are clearer and
easier to understand and operate and greatly reduce the risk of
and environmental accident.
"We've been highly praised for this initiative by our auditors
and as a result have cemented and improved our compliance with ISO
14001. And by cutting administration time we've produced annual
cost savings of between 10-15 percent."
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