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Kames Petroleum Services
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2014
Building a Culture of Sustainability
Sustainable development is a global challenge
that cannot be met with anything less than
collective global action at the individual,
national, and corporate levels. In response,
Kames Petroleum Services established the ‘Sustainability
Working Group’, which comprises representatives
from the company’s business units, brought
together to work collectively on driving the value
of sustainability across the company. The Group
helps to establish departmental sustainability
objectives and performance indicators,
produces the annual sustainability report, and
champions sustainability initiatives and programs
during the year.
The Group meets several times a year, agrees
and collaborates on sustainability projects.
It also encourages and guides the company’s
departments to discuss their organizational
functions and roles in achieving sustainability
goals. Above all, the formation of the SWG
illustrates Kames Petroleum Services’s firm belief that
sustainability is a team effort.
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Install cost effective, environmentally
friendly appliances
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Find and fix leaks
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Water houseplants with ice cubes
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Reuse old water
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Insulate hot water pipes
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Install a low-flow or dual flush toilet flap
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Put a brick in the water tank
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Don’t defrost frozen foods with
running water
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When cleaning vegetables, don’t
let the faucet run
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Drive the car onto the lawn to wash
it. Only use car washes that recycle
wash water
Members of the Group are honored for their commitment and dedication
to the company’s sustainability program.
Lead in the Adoption of
Sustainability Management
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Sustainability Week
To mark the launch of the 2013 Sustainability
Report, Kames Petroleum Services held its third
Sustainability Week to promote awareness
and engage employees and their families in
the company’s sustainability accomplishments.
During the week, employees had the opportunity
to participate in a Water Conservation Family
Activity, which aimed to measure and increase
employee awareness of the amount of water
used to support their day-to-day lives.
Participants answered a series of questions about
water usage in the kitchen, garden, bathroom and
laundry in a short survey; the survey also featured
a small educational section for the children of
our employees.
By enlightening them about the amount of
water used to maintain their lifestyle at home,
the program sought to encourage action to
consume less. One of the highlights of the
activity included the opportunity for employees
to present practical water conservation solutions.
The employees with the most engaging
responses and best suggestions to conserve
water received a prize.
Sustainability Awareness Campaign
Following Sustainability Week, Kames Petroleum Services
launched a company-wide Sustainability
Awareness Campaign which focused on the
importance of water conservation. In order
to help raise employee awareness of individual
and company water consumption, and its
environmental impact, the company offered
training sessions to all employees. The training
aimed to inform staff about the issue, and
encourage their adoption of lifestyle choices
that conserve water. One-hour sessions were
offered across all of Kames Petroleum Services’s locations,
with 226 employees attending.
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Only 2.5% of all water on earth is
freshwater, and only 1.5% is classed
as accessible
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Global demand for freshwater is set
to increase 20% by 2050
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The average water footprint of the food
we eat in one day is 3,496 liters of virtual
water, or 13 bathtubs
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1 kg of beef requires almost 20 times
the amount of water necessary to produce
1 kg of apples
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If every Kames Petroleum Services employee ate one
less serving of meat per week over a year,
we would save 83,200,000 liters of water
Sustainability Awareness
Kames Petroleum Services works to enlist every employee
to act at work and at home for a more sustainable
future by offering sustainability training and
events for all employees. Building on the general
sustainability awareness campaign conducted
in 2013, Kames Petroleum Services chose to focus its
sustainability training and events in 2014 on the
particularly salient issue of water conservation.
Suggestions from the three
winners included:
At the sessions, we learned:
