Sustainable Development Report 2010 [pdf, 2.13 MB] - Hatch

CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE
Hatch’s Corporate
Quality Policy was
updated in 2008
to include sustainable
development.
Both Hatch and
clients recognize
the importance
of managing and
tracking sustainability
activities. This
report represents a balance between our
progress at Hatch and exemplary examples
of the progress of many of our clients.
Hatch is proud to report that for five years we
have maintained a lost-time injury frequency rate
of just 0.14 per 200,000 project hours worked,
while doubling our annual hours worked from
20 million to 40 million. And we have been
recognized on several major projects for our
attention to safety details, which has won for
Hatch project teams more than 20 safety awards
in Australia, Canada, Chile and South Africa.
Safety has become second nature to Hatch
employees and our integrated staff client teams.
Since 1996 we have made safety the top priority
and a critical need for providing a “No Harm”
work environment for all Hatch employees
and suppliers.
We also consider sustainable development
a top priority. We have designed systems that
facilitate the integration of sustainability into
project design and implementation to foster
regular monitoring, recording and reporting of
these aspects in our projects.
Hatch’s Environmental Services Group provides
support to our engineering and technical project
work by incorporating social, environmental,
carbon management and overall sustainabledevelopment
design expertise and experience.
This approach helps our clients to achieve
successful project outcomes; meet the
expectations and needs of communities; and
manage sustainability.
Our plans for next year and beyond include
continuing to provide clients with quality
technical and strategic services that include
sustainable development components; engaging
with our stakeholders on sustainability;
increasing our current levels of monitoring and
reporting of waste, recycling, and staff travel;
increasing our work sharing IT initiatives in
order to reduce travel; and assessing our supply
chain and its impacts.
We encourage our external stakeholders to
review this copy of our 2010 Sustainable
Development Report, assess our performance
and provide feedback on how we can continue
to improve our sustainable development record.
Kurt Strobele
Chairman & CEO
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