Mammoet World - Mammoet BV

“Sustainability,
a new value”
* ISO 14001
ISO 14001 is an international standard
for environmental management
systems. An environmental
management system aims to
manage and improve the environmental
performance of an organization
in the long term. Ideally, this
should be integrated with the overall
management system. By obtaining
certification, an organization
can demonstrate that it meets the
standard.
HK70: Lower fuel
consumption - lower
emissions
In 2009, Mammoet was the first
operator in the world to deploy an
HK70 crane. Tadano Faun in
Germany developed this crane at
our request, and in close cooperation
with us. The innovative feature
of this 70 ton mobile rig is that the
crane has its own 90 kW/122 hp
engine. So far, mobile cranes have
always been driven by the truck
engine. However, that means running
a much heavier engine all day.
With this world first, Mammoet can
offer a cleaner and more economical
mobile crane. The HK70 has
been well-received on the market,
and Tadano Faun is now also supplying
it to other customers.
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Safety always takes priority at Mammoet, but sometimes that means that
other important elements of SHE-Q get less attention than they deserve. So,
this time we will focus on an issue which is becoming more and more
important: sustainability.
Not that long ago, worrying about sustainability
seemed to be the preserve of environmentalists,
but much has changed in a
few years. Nowadays, sustainability and
environmental protection are also top of
the agenda with businesses and governments.
Throughout the world, there is an
increasing awareness that we cannot continue
depleting scarce resources and emitting
greenhouse gasses. It is therefore
likely that the permissible emissions will
be drastically cut in the coming decades.
More and more companies, including
Mammoet, are anticipating this change.
Corporate Safety Director Koos van Tol,
whose remit also includes the E of
Environment, commented: “We have
noticed that slowly but surely, sustainability
is becoming increasingly important.
We think that in the future, it will become
just as important as safety when projects
are awarded. Sustainability is clearly
becoming a new value.”
Corporate social responsibility
Mammoet takes its corporate social
responsibility in relation to the environment
serious. “The Board has decided to
investigate where we are on the sustainability
scale, and what we can do to reduce
our CO 2 emissions or offset them. That’s
going to be a long-term effort.” The
interest in sustainability has accelerated
now that potential customers are asking
us about the CO 2 emissions of our company
and equipment. “That is a new
development in our business. In project
management too, you see that the environment
is increasingly important, and that
our customers have ever stricter environmental
requirements.” explained Van Tol,
referring to salvage projects in countries
such as Canada and Norway. “When talking
about sustain ability, the ISO 14001
standard* always crops up. Mammoet
Salvage is already certified to this
standard. The whole of Mammoet will be
certified in 2010, to ensure that the sustainability
policy is incorporated in the long
term.”
Of course, sustainability is nothing new.
Van Tol explained that it receives a great
deal of attention. “When purchasing new
equipment we consider issues such as
fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. For
example, we have a world first with the
HK70, a 70 ton mobile crane with dedicated
engine, mounted on a truck chassis.
Because the crane has its own engine, the
truck engine doesn’t have to run all the
time, which reduces fuel consumption,
CO 2 emissions and wear, and extends the
life of the crane.” The construction of new
premises also provides a good opportunity
to do something about sustainability. “In
Canada we are now using heat pumps to
heat the workshops and we collect melt
water to wash the equipment.”
Raising awareness
In the past year we have organized several
campaigns to encourage our personnel to
improve sustainability. “That’s all about
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raising awareness. You start at the
bottom, with small issues.” The
Mammoet Reflects campaign
reminds our people to switch their
computers and the lights off when
they leave. Printing fewer documents
and e-mails and recycling
paper also helps. “We ask drivers
and crane operators not to keep the
engines running unnecessarily, to
reduce the fuel consumption.”
Apart from the above developments,
Mammoet is also considering
measures to offset its CO 2
emissions. This could be done by
installing wind turbines and solar
panels at our branches. These
options are being considered in the
sustainability study.
Sharing knowledge
Of course, we can’t run an article on
SHE-Q without mentioning safety. In
the previous issue of World, Van Tol
mentioned “... setting up a central
database with detailed information
about the causes, follow-up and
prevention of incidents, so that
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