Environmental Policy

Introduction

Axiom Events Ltd & Axiom Live Ltd, hereinafter Axiom, are committed to reducing their environmental impact year on year.

The purpose of this environmental policy is to indicate our organisational commitment to addressing environmental issues within Axiom] and through the services we deliver. This document outlines what Axiom will do to identify our environmental impact, how we will adapt to reduce our impact, and the responsibilities of team members in this space

This policy applies to employees and contractors, both full time and part time. The policy will be shared with suppliers, potential partners and consultants wherever appropriate to indicate our commitment to environmental action.

Staff engagement

We will promote responsibility for the environment within the organisation, and communicate and implement this policy at all levels of our team. We commit to ensuring key members of staff have the time necessary to embed this work into our operations and provide further resources where possible and necessary.

We will support staff wellbeing by considering how we promote positive, action-led messaging about climate breakdown and provide opportunities for them to change the ways they work for Axiom in line with positive climate behaviours. We will provide space for staff to discuss this issue, including their own concerns and worries about environmental breakdown, through any wider wellbeing programmes in place.

The senior management team will:

• Share its expectation of responsibility for the environment to employees & directors
• Demonstrate clear commitment to the environment and lead by example, to ensure that the protection of the environment is promoted to all employees.
• Support team wellbeing and work to combat hopelessness by committing to driving action in the organisation, and setting a positive example.

The employees will:

• Be familiar with all the environmental requirements relevant to their role and responsibilities, including exploring the carbon footprint/environmental impact of specific areas of work;
• Take responsibility for their own impact on the environment while in the workplace, sharing ideas with other staff members on how to reduce personal impact.

The Directors will:

• Recognises that climate breakdown is a strategic and systemic risk challenging the company’s ability to meet its objectives in the long term;
• Supports senior management and the wider staff team in addressing climate breakdown.

Operations

Axiom is committed to reducing their consumption of energy, water and other materials, and where reduction is not practical, to find sustainable sources. The Company will strive to achieve this through continual assessment of the ways in which they work, and the ways in which they operate the equipment in the building.

Axiom is committed to reducing their waste production and will reuse where possible. Where this is not practical, they will locally recycle as high a percentage as possible.

Axiom will seek to engage their key suppliers in assessing ways they can reduce their own environmental impact, and make it known that they demand a high level of environmental responsibility from their suppliers. This will be included in the tendering process for future contracts.

Axiom will seek to involve staff at all levels in reducing their environmental impact and will engage in a process of education to inform all staff of the ways in which the Company uses natural resources, plus the ways in which they can reduce or negate the impact of that resource use.

As part of this, we will assess the environmental impacts of our operations and set objectives and targets annually in order to improve our internal carbon emissions. We will review these targets annually. This work will include:

• Monitoring utilities consumption in office buildings and home working.
• Conscious consideration of the amount of travel necessary for our services to go ahead, encouraging green transportation modes and/or providing remote access to events
• Review our waste and educate employees about effective recycling and reducing use of single use plastic where possible
• Comply with all relevant environmental legislation and regulations
• Providing a short statement in our annual meetings each year outlining the discussions we have had around climate breakdown and any action we have taken, alongside our aims for the following business year.
• Considering the risk of climate breakdown to staff retention/recruitment and exploring how we can improve in this space.
• Work with us to reduce the impacts of the goods and services purchased from them wherever possible.