 The EHS Management Systems in ITC conform to the best international standards.
ISO 14001 Environment Management Systems:
All manufacturing Units of ITC (except Foods Unit at Pune, Personal Care products Unit at Haridwar), all the major hotels & ITC R&D Centre at Bengaluru are certified.
OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems:
All the manufacturing units of ITC (except Foods Unit at Pune, Personal Care products Unit at Haridwar) are certified.
SA 8000 Social Accountability:
Leaf Processing Plants at Chirala and Anaparti, Cigarette Unit at Kolkata, Surya Nepal’s Cigarette Unit at Simra, Packaging & Printing Unit at Tiruvottiyur and ITC Infotech are certified.
Food Safety:
ISO 22000 Foods Safety Management System:
ITC Hotels Maurya, Mughal, Maratha, Grand Central, Sheraton Rajputana and Sheraton Chola are certified.
HACCP:
ITC Hotels Maratha, Grand Central, and Kakatiya have received this Certification.
Foods Unit in Haridwar has also received this certification.
 ITC Hotel Royal Gardenia was conferred the highest rating for green buildings: the LEED* India Platinum Rating. This recognition makes it the world’s largest Platinum Rated hotel and is yet another manifestation of ITC’s leadership in sustainability. This rating comes close on the heels of the ITC Green Centre in Gurgaon, which was awarded the Platinum Rating in 2004 by US-Green Building Council. At the time of certification in 2004, it was the largest office space in the world to have achieved the prestigious LEED Platinum Rating.
The ITC Royal Gardenia is an inclusive blend of contemporary design and international green practices. Built on the ethos of ‘Responsible Luxury’, the hotel has adopted contemporary ‘Green Practices’ that harness the elements of nature in an inspired setting to deliver unique guest experiences.
*LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. |
Review Statement by Ernst & Young
We have carried out an independent limited review* of the section “Sustainability Updates” of the ITC Report and Accounts 2010 prepared by ITC Limited (the ‘Company’). The scope of our work was limited to providing independent assurance of select information pertaining to Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) and social performance for the period 1st April 2009 to 31st March 2010, based on review at eight representative business Units of the Company.
Based on our scope of review, nothing has come to our attention that causes us not to believe that the Company is concerned about EHS and social issues pertaining to its business activities.
The Company has presented, in a fairly balanced and complete manner, the information pertaining to EHS and social parameters on the GRI indicators pertaining to material consumption, energy, water consumption and discharge, GHG emissions, wastes and social programmes. The systems and procedures applied by the Company for collection, compilation and interpretation of data on EHS and social performance parameters are reliable.
The initiatives on carbon sequestration, waste recycling and creating rainwater harvesting potential demonstrate the Company’s commitment on these key sustainability issues. The Company’s carbon positive status is based on improvements in specific energy consumption, increasing share of energy from renewable resources and sequestration of CO2 emissions through social and farm forestry initiatives. The water-positive status is based on reduction of specific water consumption and creation of the rainwater harvesting structures with an evaluated rainwater harvesting potential. Waste recycling positive status of the Company is by recycling of wastes generated out of their operations and external wastes used as raw material. We observed significant initiatives on sustainability management across the business Units visited.
For Ernst & Young Private Limited
Sudipta Das
Partner
12th May, 2010
Kolkata
*The EHS and social information contained in this section will form a part of ITC’s Sustainability Report 2010, which is being independently assured by Ernst & Young. |
