Urban Energy Corporate and social responsibility
In continuing to build Urban Energy as a premier renewable energies business we take our corporate, social and environmental responsibilities seriously. We continually monitor and consider the ethical implications of how we operate in our day-to-day business and put policies and procedures in place that reflect our commitment.
Intrinsic to our culture is an ethical approach to business conducted by and towards all of our stakeholders, including management, staff, clients and suppliers. The values that form the essence of our brand and our working culture are professionalism, integrity, effectiveness and dynamism.
Corporate responsibility
We are an equal opportunities employer and make it our policy to offer equal treatment to employees and prospective employees, ensuring that all are treated with dignity and respect. We do not permit unlawful discrimination of any kind against any person on the grounds of gender, race, nationality or ethnic origin, age, disability, religious beliefs, sexuality, marital status, working patterns or pregnancy.
We are committed to taking positive action to ensure that all employees, whether full-time or part-time, receive equality of opportunity in recruitment, training, development, promotion and remuneration.
We strive to ensure the health, safety and welfare of our employees and anyone else who may be affected by our operations. Employees are expected to take reasonable care for their own health and safety at work as well as those of others, and to co-operate with management to create a safe and healthy working environment. All employees are subject to induction, training and supervision in aspects of health and safety and additional training in ergonomics and fire safety awareness is provided to all employees.
We believe that the knowledge and skills of our employees are a key element of organizational success and therefore invest in training and development. We ensure that this is accessible by everyone and recognised as a shared responsibility between individual employees and the organisation.
Employees are kept informed of developments in business through our internal communications including a monthly newsletter, formal company wide briefings that occur quarterly, team meetings and an information-rich intranet.
We are proud of our working culture that ensures that we achieve our aim to attract, reward and retain talented staff in competitive markets and support and develop them as they strive to perform to an excellent standard.
Charity
Urban Energy has made charitable donations from 2010 and throughout 2011. The company’s charity budget is managed by a charity committee chaired by Mr Colin O’Keefe. Consideration is given to a wide range of activities, particularly where members of staff are engaged in fund raising activities.
Several members of our staff raised over £600.00 taking part in a Sponsored Abseil down The Spinnaker Tower Portsmouth to raise money for Solar Aid.
Our annual Christmas card is distributed electronically to over 5,000 key clients and contacts giving them the opportunity to indicate the charity that they wish us to support.
Environmental responsibility
Urban Energy is committed to achieving best practices in all of the areas of the areas of our business and where there may be an impact on the environment we strive to make environmentally responsible choices, whenever possible.
In procurement area we have adopted the following practices:
- We carefully evaluate and compare each suppliers “green” initiatives and will give appropriate weighting to the quality and consistency of a suppliers programs.
- Once a supplier has been awarded a contract, we track and monitor the supplier’s green intiatives.
