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Environmental
Beyond meeting all current UK environmental legislation, the Peninsula Group strives to reduce its impact on the world.
Becoming ISO accredited
ISO certifications are internationally recognised standards that demonstrate how businesses develop, maintain, and improve their internal processes.
The Peninsula Group is proud to become certified in:
- ISO 50001 – Energy Management
- ISO 14001 – Environmental Management
These certifications demonstrate our commitment to environmental sustainability on an organisational level.
The more you enjoy what you do, the more successful you will be at it. If you enjoy your work then your motivation and passion will be greater.
Peter Done
Peninsula Group CEO and Founder
Peter started Peninsula in 1983 as the first consultancy to make HR and health & safety services accessible to businesses of all sizes. Today, Peninsula looks after over 140,000 companies worldwide, with offices in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Peter has been named one of the UK’s top CEOs, he is a member of the Forbes Business Council and is regularly published in the Times Enterprise Network and FT Adviser.
Becoming carbon neutral
Carbon neutrality is our goal to reduce the impact of any emissions we produce. It involves offsetting the impact of emissions with strategies to reduce our energy consumption.
We do that by implementing a wide range of environmental improvements, including:
- Transitioning to 100% electric company vehicles from September 2022
- Encouraging all employees to avoid unnecessary or extravagant use of resources
- Following the principles of the waste hierarchy
- Offering alternative promotional methods to printed materials, including electronic materials, using existing intranet sites, and screensavers
- Researching renewable technology at all owned offices by the end of 2022
- Switching all lights to LED in all owned offices by 2023/24
- Introducing dual flush across all sites' welfare facilities to save water
- Investigating replacing natural gas boilers used for heating and domestic hot water with low carbon alternatives
- Switching to 100% renewable electricity suppliers at contract renewal
- Reducing employee travel by offering phone or online support instead of face-to-face appointments
- Moving data storage to ‘the cloud’
- Seeking to understand how we can contribute to biodiversity net gain targets
By prioritising innovative carbon reduction strategies, we will reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, 80% by 2035, and achieve Net Zero emissions by 2040.
This is in line with our formalised Carbon Reduction Plan, which assesses all organisations within the Peninsula Group.
