our ethos
Albany Washroom Services provides a range of hygiene and environmental business services to enhance the workplace wellbeing of our customers and their stakeholders. Our aim is to achieve this without compromising the needs of future generations.
These services include washroom hygiene, textile and floorcare services and these may include the laundering of certain articles, delivery, collection and waste disposal.
Albany is committed to the prevention of pollution and to the continual improvement in the environmental impacts of its activities, products and services.
Albany fully embraces the ethos of the ISO 14001 environmental management accreditation and has achieved this standard. Albany’s British Accreditation Bureau ISO14001:2000 registration number is 181027. Albany strives to work only with suppliers who share this vision, and who have, or are committed to achieving ISO 14001.
We will focus our efforts on issues where our activities have direct environmental impacts and strive to minimise or offset these impacts through our ISO 14001 commitment as well as through stakeholder engagement and industry collaboration.
our commitments
- we will apply best practice wherever possible, and will take leadership in developing a greener washroom service and washroom product supply chain
- we will evaluate all aspects of our business to ensure that we constantly provide the best service to our customers whilst reducing the impacts of doing so on the environment
- supporting the use of environmentally responsible materials and technologies by promoting the use of renewable and sustainable resources and ensuring that where possible, products reaching their end of life are recycled or disposed of in the most environmentally-friendly way
- communicating our policy clearly to our staff, customers, suppliers and stakeholders
- ensuring that we apply a precautionary principle when determining environmental and hygiene impacts of our products and services
we will ensure continuous improvement by
- providing training and raising awareness among employees, customers, suppliers and stakeholders
- listening to stakeholders
- participating in focused initiatives to develop and promote sustainable and recyclable washroom services and products
- monitoring and reporting on our environmental performance
examples of our principles in action
- Albany is committed to using the most environmentally-friendly transport available and has undertaken a programme to provide hybrid vehicles where appropriate and technically / economically-viable
- Albany is committed to reducing its use of printed materials and where this is unavoidable, we will ensure the most environmentally-friendly papers and processes are used, and we will undertake to use only ISO 14001 accredited printers
- Albany has already assessed its service routes and re-scheduled to significantly reduce the service miles driven
