Environmental philosophy and environmental policy
“Building for people and nature” is our environmental philosophy.
Environmental philosophy
As a company engaged in the construction sector, we maintain an environmental management system because we are aware of our responsibility to our workforce, the general public and our business partners. As part of this holistic environmental management system, the company’s goal is to continuously develop and optimise the quality of environmental and occupational safety, product safety and not least economic efficiency.
Evironmental policy
SONNTAG is actively engaged in environmental protection and has set itself the goal of keeping the environmental impact caused by its business activities as low as possible or even avoiding it completely.
The goal is to harmonise economics and ecology with the help of the environmental management system. As a result of continuous monitoring of environmentally-relevant activities, weaknesses are identified and suitable corrective measures for achieving permanent improvements are introduced.
SONNTAG believes that environmental protection does not only begin with the recycling of materials. Preserving resources and avoiding environmental damage to materials and processes are the company’s environmental guidelines. We assume responsibility for all of our products, services and other business activities. We are aware of the importance of environmental protection and set the highest standards in this field across all areas of the company.
Due to regular monitoring, we are able to evaluate and, if necessary, correct our environmental measures. We constantly strive to improve our achievements in the area of environmental protection on the basis of our own performance. Guided by our business processes, we are committed to continuously improving our environmental performance.
Legal and regulatory requirements
In the sense of active environmental protection, we do not only comply with the minimum requirements in the relevant statutory environmental regulations but exceed them in our activities. All applicable legal and regulatory requirements are identified through systematic rule management. We are committed to fulfilling the legal requirements and other binding obligations.
Communication and employees
We make our environmental policy publicly available to all interested parties (customers, suppliers, authorities and other service providers) on our website.
We promote open dialogue on the subject of environmental protection and strive to awaken and strengthen the environmental awareness of our employees, suppliers and customers. SONNTAG expects every employee to fully support the concept of environmental protection and contribute to the realisation of the goals.
A sense of responsibility and competence in these matters permeates through all levels of our company. By utilising adequate measures and resources, we endeavour to reduce the environmental impact of our activities, including all unforeseeable events and accidents, to a minimum.
Environmental management system
The Management Handbook and other applicable process instructions document our environmental management system. The processes defined within them serve to implement our corporate policy. Their effectiveness is regularly checked in the form of internal and external audits.
The continuous improvement of the environmental management system is a corporate obligation and thus a common standard for all employees in the company.
