Nowy Styl Sustainability Report 2018-2019

As part of our environmental management, we period- ically identify, analyse and assess environmental aspects, and we conduct risk analysis and monitoring of processes related to environmental impact. This enables us to pre- vent and respond quickly in the event of any nonconform- ities. We define our pro-environmental goals and inspect them on an ongoing basis in our Environmental Action Programmes. They include specific tasks undertaken to achieve our goals, and define responsible units and the necessary financial resources and time frames. In 2019, in order to reduce our negative impact on the natural environment, we implemented the CO 2 Perfor­ mance Ladder in our companies (Nowy Styl Sp. z o.o., Rohde & Grahl GmbH and Rohde & Grahl B.V.). It is a Dutch sustainability support systemwhich helps reduce CO 2 emis- sions and costs, both in operations and projects, and the sales chain. As a result, we are not only able to determine energy flows and CO 2 emissions, but also set ourselves ambitious goals in terms of their reduction (   Click to find out more ). We identify and meet all legal requirements for en- vironmental protection. In 2019, we established cooper- ation with an independent third-party verification body that conducts regular audits to assess compliance with le- gal requirements in the area of environmental protection, chemical substance management, occupational health and safety and fire safety. GRI 307-1 The years 2018–2019 were another two years when no penalties or other sanctions were imposed on any of our companies for failure to meet legal requirements regarding environmental protection, and audits of our man- agement systems carried out periodically by external cer- tification companies always ended with a recommendation, and retention of the certificates held. We also require all our suppliers to comply with envi- ronmental standards. We check that at the beginning of cooperation, and then by carrying out regular inspections (   Click to find out more ). As a conscious and mature organisation operating on an international scale, we follow all pro-environmental market trends and the growing requirements of our cus- tomers in this area. We have also gone a step further, in- troducing green thinking at the designing stage of new products, which has resulted in products made in line with the concept of circular economy, the carrying out of prod- uct life cycle analysis and followed by the development of EPDs (Environmental Product Declaration) (   Click to find out more ). Environmental impact in production processes PRODUCTION Waste Sewage Water Energy Emissions Raw materials and materials 92 Table of contents