Health and Safety Policy

Statement of Intent

Printagraph Ltd, the Company, recognises and accepts its responsibility as an employer for providing a safe, healthy workplace and work environment for its employees and others (contractors, visitors, and the public) that may be affected by its work. Printagraph Ltd as the Employer undertakes to comply with all statutory health and safety requirements.

Our general intent

• To provide adequate control of the health and safety risks arising from our work activities
• To consult with our employees on matters affecting their health and safety
• To provide and maintain safe plant and equipment
• To ensure safe handling, storage and use of substances
• To provide information, instruction and supervision for our employees
• To ensure all employees are competent to do their tasks, and to give them adequate training
• To provide safe systems of work
• To prevent accidents and cases of work-related ill health
• To maintain safe and healthy working conditions
• To review and revise this policy as necessary at regular intervals

Use of Reasonably Practicable Means

Printagraph Ltd intends to adopt all reasonably practicable means to eliminate hazards and reduce the risks of injury to its employees and others (visitors, contractors and members of the public), and the risk of damage to its property. The Company will ensure that resources are made available to provide: -

• Plant, equipment and systems of work that are safe and without risks to health and the environment
• Safe arrangements for the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances
• A safe place of work with safe access to it and safe egress from it
• A healthy working environment
• Adequate welfare facilities and arrangements
• Sufficient information, instruction, training and supervision to ensure all employees are aware of the hazards at their workplace together with the necessary measures to be taken to protect against these hazards
• A monitoring, inspection and auditing procedure to ensure the effective management of health and safety throughout the Company and to encourage the co-operation of the employees

Printagraph Limited Environmental Policy Statement

Our fundamental, ongoing environmental policy commitments are as follows:

• We have a firm commitment to year-on-year continual improvement in our environmental performance
• We are committed to the prevention of pollution in all of our activities
• We are committed to full compliance with all applicable legal requirements and other requirements which may be relevant to the various aspects of our business
• We have identified the environmental issues associated with all of our activities, products and services
• We aim to implement all reasonably practicable measures to manage, control and improve the related environmental impacts

In achieving these aims the company will:

• Develop, implement and achieve certification to the international standard for environmental management systems - ISO14001:2004 and FSC Accreditation by Mid 2009
• Strive to ensure that all of our office and factory wastes are handled, stored and disposed of as required not only by legislation, but as examples of best practice
• Work to reduce the amount of waste produced
• Investigate all reasonable options for increasing recycling initiatives
• Investigate measures which would reduce the consumption of raw materials
• Develop, and periodically review objectives and targets to support this policy with the aim of improving our environmental performance
• Exercise control, as far as is possible, over the environmental impacts arising as a result of work being undertaken on our behalf by our sub-contractors, suppliers and maintenance contractors
• Review this policy annually or in light of any new knowledge, changing legislation or public concerns and provide appropriate training to our employees to enable them to implement this environmental policy

Our Directors have direct responsibility for the implementation of this environmental policy and an Environmental Representative has been appointed to ensure that our Environmental Management System is suitably established, implemented and maintained.