Health, Safety & Environment / Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
ARC-V LOGISTIC plans and conducts their operations, according to sound environmental principles. They are to strive always to carry out work in the manner best calculated to minimize any adverse environmental effect, to prevent pollution of any kind, and are actively to seek ways of preventing ARC-V LOGISTIC producing environmental damage.
The goal of sustainable development is to act in an economically sound way while conserving resources, maintaining the social equilibrium, and protecting our environment. As a family-owned business, this principle is of special importance to us and guides our decisions.
Environmental issues are an integral part of our HSSE management system. Our policy on HSSE stipulates that we use energy and raw materials efficiently, avoid environmental pollution, and promote environmental awareness among our employees so as to minimize harmful influences. For many years now, we have been recording the frequency of product releases and their volume, the amount of energy and water used and the waste produced at our sites and have established corresponding KPIs that enable us to better identify and evaluate our development.
Risk Management
One of the greatest challenges as we pursue our strategy of controlled, long-term growth is to limit the manifold financial, operational and HSSE risks. That is why we work based on a permanent and thorough risk management scheme that individually rates all risks and defines tailor-made mandates, tasks, and responsibilities. To further ensure a healthy mix of risk, all risks – including social and environmental ones – are evaluated in the context of the entire group of companies.
We take a decentralized approach whereby risks are broken out to the individual companies and responsibility is assigned at operating unit level. The principal risks that may affect future business performance include: Currency fluctuation Another international financial crisis flare-up and/or sustained economic downturn Political conflict in oil-producing countries and the resultant tensions on the oil markets Rising prices for natural resources and purchased energy Environmental and natural disasters as well as effects of the climate change Higher risks in countries we are active in Global pandemic, such as the global outbreak of COVID-19.
Environmental Policy
Safety Principles
In 2020 we introduced 8 Safety Principles that reflect our beliefs and how it enhances our safety culture and performance. Taking full ownership of safety performance reinforces our commitment to safety as a value that shapes all decision-making at every level of our business.
HSSE performance
The management will visibly and rigorously support the implementation of this policy. We expect the support of all employees, contractors and others working for us, so that our HSSE performance will continue to earn us the trust and confidence of our customers, neighbors and the community at large.
Health & Safety on Business Trips
Many of our employees travel as part of their work for our company. Travel safety is therefore a further important issue on our HSSE agenda. In order to provide the best medical advice and services for employees on their travels, as well as for expats, our holding company has signed a service contract with a leading provider of medical assistance, international healthcare, and security services.
To support our employees in planning international business trips, there is also a group-wide manual on travel safety and a web-based airline-vetting database, which is updated daily.
Fire Protection
Past incidents in our industry have shown that technical measures, organizational processes, and rules are not always sufficient to prevent fires. That is why it is very important to us to increase our staff’s risk awareness and to ensure a quick response to emergency situations by performing regular drills.
ARC-V LOGISTIC has prepared a mandatory Fire Protection Standard consisting of company-wide minimum requirements that often go beyond legal requirements.
Health & Safety
Excellence in health and safety is an important value of our company. We aim to prevent all accidents, injuries and occupational illness. We are dedicated to harmonize company-wide internal regulations and be more stringent about establishing the use of the best available techniques.
Risk Assessment
Due to the variety of activities within the group of companies it is important to evaluate all risks individually. Based on this analysis we implement tailor-made measures and establish tailor-made standards and work instructions. To learn from accidents, our engagement goes beyond purely statistical evaluations. Accidents are analyzed in detail to identify company-wide potential for improvement. In addition, our proactive approach is supported by promotion campaigns that are designed to increase risk awareness in the workaday routine.
We continuously improve the contractors’ HSSE standards. For this purpose, a manual on contractor safety was developed e.g. at ARC-V LOGISTIC. A web-based database assists the sites in selecting contractors based on predefined criteria.
Preventive Medical Care
With regard to medical care, most employees based in Germany are entitled to a free preventive medical check-up every two to three years. Our worldwide sites are encouraged to develop comparable programs locally.