Our approach
Standards and Policies
T-Mobile has achieved certification of its health and safety procedures to the internationally recognised OHSAS18001 standard, and is also accredited to ISO14001 standard for its environmental management system. T-Mobile was also the first company in the world to achieve PAS99 for operating a combined Health, Safety & Environment management system.
Our HS&E policy is updated annually and details everybody's responsibilities - from employees to directors.
Preventing pollution and minimising the risk to our employees are our two biggest priorities and we plan to tackle these during 2008 by:
- Improving the efficiency of our resource usage
- Minimising waste generation through the application of reduce, reuse and recycle
- Improving the HSE communications to internal and external customers
- Introducing initiatives encouraging employees to lead healthier lifestyles and to prevent injury and ill health
- Providing training and resources to our employees to support the environment and a healthy and safe workforce
- Continually improving the business world class management of health, safety & environmental performance
To achieve these goals, we've set targets for 2008 focusing on energy reduction, waste management, training and injury reduction.
- 5% CO2 reduction (energy consumption)
- Reduce water usage by 3%
- Reduce business fuel usage and CO2 emissions by company car drivers and cash takers e.g. b utilising public transport
- 25% decrease in general waste sent to landfill
- 10% reduction in amount of paper purchased for printing
- 50% reduction in contamination of recycled waste
- Increase phone recycling levels to 25k units per month by end 2008
- Work with HS&E Department to develop local initiatives to support the Healthy Minds' campaign
- Review ill health statistics on a monthly basis
- Reduce employee injury incidents by 10%
- Directors to attend HSE training by end Q2
- All managers to attend HSE briefing by end Q4 (replaces Refresher course)
- Support the driver risk assessment and training initiatives
- Comply with all relevant HS&E legal requirements
- Review departmental HS&E Plan every quarter
- Review directorate HSE plan every six months with Head of HS&E
