Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety

Policy: The nature of the United Scrap Metal operations has a positive impact on the environment through the processing and conservation of metals, plastic, and other non-renewable resources. Consistent with these core operations, it is United Scrap Metal’s goal to accomplish its business objectives while meeting and exceeding the quality, environmental and health & safety expectations of our management, employees, customers, suppliers, and regulators.

We will continually improve our systems while striving to minimize adverse impacts on the environment throughout our operations. In order to achieve the above statement of this QEH&S and other objectives, United Scrap Metal is committed to the following:

• Ensure that these policies are appropriate to our operations, and its potential environmental impacts and health and safety risks;
• Comply with all relevant QEH&S legal requirements, customer and product requirements, industry guidelines applicable to RIOS member company industries and any other QEH&S commitments made by the RIOS member company;
• We will strive for continual improvement;
• Prevent work place injuries;
• Provide  the framework for establishing QEH&S goals;
• Ensure high customer satisfaction;
• Prevent pollution;
• This system and policies are communicated and understood by all employees;
• That QEH&S is made available to the public, suppliers, customers, contractors, and other interested parties and is reviewed and amended, as necessary and appropriate.

We recognize that the responsibilities for protection of the environment are shared, requiring cooperation, not only between employees and their supervisors, but also among and between all those who assume the various positions within the company. United Scrap Metal will continually improve its environmental performance including the setting of quality, environmental, health, and safety goals while considering our footprint as well as business, financial, operational and legal requirements.

QEH&S Policy PDF