Environmental Management Systems

Our goal of establishing environmental management systems certified to ISO 14001, across Trinity Mirror Printing, has now been achieved.

The remaining sites (Blantyre, Cardonald, Newcastle, Teesside and Watford) have successfully gained certification during 2009, well ahead of schedule, and this is a tribute to the efforts of the staff involved. We are confident that environmental management at our manufacturing facilities now meets best practice for the industry.

Further training for staff will be undertaken by the Groundwork Trust during 2010, to support the on-going implementation of this programme.

We now wish to build on this success and expand the implementation of environmental management systems to our major office locations. This new programme will start with our offices at Canary Wharf, Central Quay, Birmingham, Cardiff, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Newcastle and Hamilton achieving certification to Phase 3 of the BS8555 standard (a stepping stone to ISO 14001) by the end of 2011.

In addition to the auditing already undertaken by independent specialists as part of the ISO 14001 programme, all of our major office and print sites have taken part in an internal audit process including compliance with environmental legislation. No prosecutions or other complaints from any regulator were identified during 2009.

Current target:

Trinity Mirror will achieve certification to Phase 3 of the BS8555 environmental management system standard at its major office locations in Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hamilton, Liverpool, London, Middlesbrough and Newcastle by the end of 2011.