NEC Australia's Environmental Credentials
NEC Australia recognises and accepts its environmental responsibilities to reduce the environmental impact of its business activities. This includes striving to create a sustainable society through the implementation of a sound environmental management system (EMS), that will help reduce the environmental impact of what we do on society as a whole, and by providing environmentally sound products and services.
NEC Australia has an environmental management system in place which clearly sets out policies and procedures which help the company to:
- Maintain and continually improve its EMS, which complies with AS/NZS ISO14001.
- Ensure that every person working for NEC is equipped with the required resources, competencies, information and authority to enable them to fulfil their environmental management roles.
- Comply with applicable environmental protection legal requirements, and with other requirements to which NEC is a signatory.
- Promote the concept of reduce, reuse and recycle throughout all business activities including procurement, manufacture, sales, distribution, recycling and end of life disposal.
- Establish short and long-term environmental objectives & targets to prevent pollution and preserve the environment.
- Measure, monitor and evaluate environmental performance against set objectives & targets and implement necessary improvement measures.
NEC Australia is also focused on energy efficiency schemes to offset the increase in electricity costs, through electricity conservation, company-wide recycling and waste management schemes, and converting to more efficient equipment.
As a large data centre operator in Australia, NEC has long been committed to gaining the best energy efficiencies possible and continues to look for ways to minimise the corporation’s energy use. NEC’s data centre in the Polaris facility in Queensland was expressly chosen because of its environmental rating and the deployment of the latest power management and cooling technology. As an industry leader, NEC expects to see this mirrored across the industry with greater focus on energy efficient data centres as commercial and legislative pressures begin to align with environmental and societal pressures.
NEC Australia supports the government’s commitment to transition Australia to a low carbon economy. It is consistent with NEC’s global vision to contribute to the establishment of a sustainable society. NEC already collaborates with the Federal Government in the research and development of intelligent transport systems and improved battery technology to assist with the transition to renewable energy.
Through sustainability awareness initiatives, there is already increasing demand for organisations to implement video conferencing, more efficient communications equipment and technologies, more robust communications connections and services to remote regions and better collaboration tools.