​Overview

Boarway Care Ltd, trading as Interdental Centre (“IC”) strives to be a leader in environmental sustainability and believes that a prosperous future for our dental practice and the patients we serve depends on the sustainability of the environment, communities and economies we operate.

As responsible corporate citizens, we are responsible for considering the impacts of our actions and how they affect the environment both directly in terms of our operations and indirectly through our purchasing decisions, the products and services we offer to our patients and the business opportunities pursue.

We are committed to minimising the impact of our operations on the environment and demonstrating leadership by integrating environmental considerations into all our business practices.

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Scope

The requirements of this policy apply to all dentists and employees of IC. Although this policy applies to all dentists and employees, the primary audience for this policy is those responsible for its implementation, namely the practice manager and senior management.​

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Commitment from Interdental Centre

We want our dental services to be part of a sustainable society and we are committed to:

Environmental Commitments:

Protect the Environment

• Interdental Centre will protect the environment, including preventing pollution, through responsible management of our operations;

• We will give appropriate weight to this environmental policy when making future planning and investment decisions;

• We will reduce resource consumption, waste and pollution in our operations.

Compliance:

• Interdental Centre will comply with, or exceed, our environmental obligations, including taking a proactive approach to environmental legislation affecting our business.

Objectives and Targets:

• Interdental Centre will set targets and objectives within the scope of the environmental management system to achieve continual improvement and sustainable development;

• We will establish and periodically review and report progress on objectives and targets in the pursuit of continual improvement in our environmental management system to enhance our environmental performance and ongoing prevention of pollution.

Own operations:

• Interdental Centre will minimise the environmental impacts of our operations through best practice management of our use of energy, material consumption, water usage, waste and emissions.

Purchasing Decisions:

• Interdental Centre will consider the environmental performance of our suppliers and the environmental attributes of products and services in our purchasing decisions.

Audit:

• Interdental Centre will ensure adherence to established environmental management processes through periodic internal audits.

 

Engagement and Transparency

Employees:

• Interdental Centre will raise employee awareness and support employee creativity and enthusiasm with respect to implementing our environmental policies, guidelines, programs and initiatives;

• We will continually promote environmental awareness, responsibility and best practices and support our practice's environmental sustainability culture through education and in-house initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint.