Politica integrata qualità e ambientale

Qualità e ambiente nei siti italiani Franklin Electric

Franklin Electric s.r.l. ha deciso di intraprendere un percorso di certificazione secondo le normative UNI EN ISO 9001 e UNI EN ISO 14001 poiché crede fortemente nell’importanza di ottenere un rapporto sempre più ravvicinato e integrato con tutti gli stakeholder, per favorire relazioni innovative, rapide e mirate e per rendere visibile a tutti l’impegno che da sempre mette in atto nei confronti dell’ambiente.
Operando in un contesto caratterizzato da elevate aspettative, dalla crescente attenzione alle tematiche ambientali e dalla necessità di garantire il rispetto dei requisiti cogenti applicabili, Franklin Electric considera la Qualità e la tutela dell’Ambiente elementi strategici per il proprio sviluppo sostenibile.
Le principali risorse aziendali sono il Personale e la sua motivazione. Franklin Electric s.r.l. mira a diffondere la seguente politica a tutte le parti interessate, rendendola pubblicamente disponibile.
Tutto il personale è chiamato a contribuire alla gestione dei rischi e delle opportunità individuati dall’organizzazione, segnalando situazioni che potrebbero compromettere il raggiungimento degli obiettivi aziendali o generare effetti negativi sulla qualità dei prodotti, o impatti significativi sull’ambiente.
Franklin Electric s.r.l. identifica, monitora e gestisce i propri processi attraverso indicatori prestazionali e obiettivi misurabili, al fine di assicurare il miglioramento continuo delle proprie prestazioni e la capacità di soddisfare costantemente i requisiti del cliente e delle altre parti interessate.
L’impegno di Franklin Electric s.r.l. e della Direzione in materia di qualità e protezione dell’ambiente prevede:
• soddisfare i requisiti applicabili, gli obblighi di conformità e le aspettative delle parti interessate rilevanti;
• accrescere la soddisfazione dei clienti;
• migliorare continuamente l’efficacia del Sistema di Gestione Integrato;
• proteggere l’ambiente e prevenire l’inquinamento;
• sviluppare rapporti di collaborazione con fornitori e partner strategici;
• l’utilizzo efficiente delle risorse naturali ed energetiche;
• la riduzione dei consumi energetici e delle emissioni associate ove tecnicamente ed economicamente sostenibile;
• la minimizzazione dei rifiuti prodotti;
• la riduzione degli impatti ambientali correlati ai propri processi;
• il monitoraggio continuo delle proprie prestazioni qualitative e ambientali;
• il contributo, per quanto applicabile alla propria realtà, alla mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici;
• mantenere una prospettiva basata sul ciclo di vita dei propri prodotti e servizi, valutando, ove applicabile, gli aspetti ambientali associati alle attività di progettazione, approvvigionamento, produzione, utilizzo e fine vita;
• definire e riesaminare periodicamente obiettivi misurabili coerenti con la presente Politica Integrata.

Environmental Policy

Health, Safety, and the Environment

Our business reaches communities around the world. We directly employ more than 5,000 people in our global locations, and touch the lives of millions of end-users of our products. We thoughtfully consider and continuously recognize the impact we make on the people of these communities and on the environment.
Our vision is to be an indispensable partner to our customers by consistently delivering products of the highest quality available in the market, providing training that reflects the importance of the safety of our customers and end-users and that protects the environment, and developing innovative products that deliver unparalleled performance and support sustainable energy sources.
Through our innovative product designs, we blend the product performance our customers demand with critical safety features and proven energy efficiency that results in lower total operation costs. We dedicate significant resources to research and development, focusing on improvements to the efficiency of our products.
Clean and readily available groundwater is vital to the health and well-being of much of the world’s population, and the success of our water systems business is inextricably linked to this necessity. Pollution of groundwater aquifers represents a clear danger to human health and the environment. We therefore do our part, by lowering our own environmental impact by mandating clean, sustainable manufacturing and distribution processes, and by designing products that themselves protect against environmental damage.
Franklin Electric declares with the attached documents its decision to mitigate the impact of own activities and services on the environment. By introducing and maintaining an environmental management system according to the international standard, the company management announces its following environmental policy:
Franklin Electric Environmental Management System
• We comply with valid legislation and other environmental requirements.
• We want to economically treat the raw materials and energy (compressed air, electricity and water)
• We prevent waste generation, we consistently sorting, gathering in designated containers and prevent any possible leakage and consequent threat to the environment as much as possible.
• We want to promote our employees’ and our partners` awareness of responsibility for a healthy environment
• We pursue a policy of improving its environmental performance, minimizing, where technically possible and economically sustainable, any negative impact on the environment of its activities, its products and services for the prevention of pollution.
• We identify, analyze and evaluate environmental risks and opportunities in order to remove or mitigate the former and exploit the latter.
• We promote and maintain a relationship of maximum collaboration and transparency with the community, institutions and stakeholders both internal and external, with regard to all environmental issues and the significant environmental impacts generated.
• We promote awareness raising, training and environmental training of its employees, collaborators, suppliers and contractors, in order to increase awareness of environmental issues and to involve them in order to actively participate in the improvement of the Environmental Management System.
• We assess and monitor the impacts of the various phases of the production process on the environment.
• We monitor emissions into the atmosphere and the production of waste deriving from production cycles, encouraging actions that allow a reduction.
• We keep production facilities efficient to avoid any kind of waste.
• We periodically check the efficiency of its environmental management system, together with the environmental policy.