Environment
Kleenheat Gas is committed to operating its business in an environmentally responsible manner. As outlined in our Environmental Policy, responsible environmental management is considered to be everyone’s responsibility at Kleenheat Gas. As part of our commitment we have dedicated environmental personell to provide advice and guidance to the business and to ensure compliance with legislative requirements and maintaining our status as a good corporate citizen are achieved.
How do we achieve responsible environmental management?
- Kleenheat Gas operates under an Environmental Management System aligned under the AS/NZS ISO14001:2004 - Environmental Management Systems standard. This system pursues a continuous improvement cycle
- Kleenheat Gas personnel are trained and educated on environmental issues and responsibilities through a variety of methods including inductions, internal publications and face-to-face awareness sessions
- Kleenheat Gas is aware of its legislative requirements and ensures site licensing and legislative reporting requirements are met. Including reports such as the National Greenhouse and Energy Report and the National Pollutant Inventory Reports
- Kleenheat Gas sets Annual Targets and Objectives to ensure a high level of achievement.
- Being a Wesfarmers company, Kleenheat Gas publicly reports on its environmental performance annually through the Sustainability Report (2009 Wesfarmers Sustainability Report) (2008 Wesfarmers Sustainability Report)
- Kleenheat Gas measures and reports on a variety of environmental performance indicators and has a variety of initiatives and programmes in place aimed at reducing our environmental footprint
How are we reducing our environmental foot print?
Kleenheat Gas has a number of environmental initiatives and programmes in place to reduce its environmental footprint. These include:
- Scheduling efficiency of our fleet. This involves ongoing analysis of the delivery schedule to ensure continuous improvement in efficiency through reducing the kilometres travelled where practicable
- New Heavy Duty Vehicles are assessed to determine the viability of conversion to LNG fuelled engines
- All new passenger fleet vehicles are converted to utilise LPG
- Paper and Plastic recycling where possible at all sites
- Analysis of plant/equipment to identify opportunities for alternative fuel utilisation (Eg: switching the automatic cylinder washing facility to run on gas rather than electricity)
- Recycling all valves and cylinders once no longer reusable. Click here to view the cylinder life cycle
- Remnant gas collection to reduce waste and odour emissions
- Electronic waste is recycled
- Waterless urinals are installed at many of our sites