Food and Health & Safety 2025 - V4 - Flipbook - Page 58
7.0 Caring for our Environment
Our Service Area’s work supports East Su昀昀olk Council Our Direction 2028 Strategic Plan’s
commitment to ‘promote a bright, green, open, free and fair future for all in East Su昀昀olk’.
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We ensure that we consider the environment by leading by example and minimising
waste, reusing materials & increasing recycling.
All work is allocated in such a way as to minimise travelling distances.
Team members work from home, avoid unnecessary travel by car and have
“paperless” work procedures.
Meetings and training events are conducted online wherever possible.
Alternative enforcement strategies are used, where applicable, reducing the need to
visit businesses (refer to appendix 19).
Single use PPE is avoided unless it is necessary to meet the requirements of a
business/food manufacturer for food safety or health and safety purposes.
Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority
Su昀昀olk Coastal Port Health Authority (SCPHA) runs a mix of hybrid and electric vehicles
for when team members need to travel across the Port of Felixstowe and to di昀昀erent
operational sites, such as Harwich International Port. Where possible, team members
are also given the option to work from home as part of a hybrid pattern, further
reducing carbon emissions and improving work-life balance.
Following legal consultation over what can serve as o昀케cial import noti昀椀cations, SCPHA
is now able to accept digital import documents and signi昀椀cantly cut down on paperbased hardcopies. SCPHA aims to digitise more import documentation over the coming
years, with its in-development document processing software, NEOMA, aiding the
process greatly by using cutting-edge technology such as arti昀椀cial intelligence.
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