Progressive and the Environment

Since the late 1990s the Society has participated in the Arena Network's annual Environmental Survey.  The Arena Network was established in 1995 to coordinate all business environmental initiatives in Northern Ireland and to provide an environmental support service to local industry.  Approximately 250 businesses and public sector organisations are invited to respond to the survey each year and Arena publishes the names of all invitees and states whether or not they participated. The survey is designed to test how well organisations have developed their approaches to environmental management and assess how well they are performing.

Following a poor showing in the 2006 survey the Society created an environmental policy and decided to implement an environmental management system (EMS) aimed at improving the Society's environmental performance.  The early work in this area helped to lift the Society into the 3rd quintile of results when the outcome of the 2007 survey was published.

Further development of the Society's EMS resulted in improved scores in the 2008 survey which took our overall position to close to the top of the 3rd quintile.  Progressive's environmental team is hopeful that work completed in recent months will take the Society into the 2nd quintile when the 2010 results are published.

To view a copy of our June 2010 Environmental Policy document, please click on the link below: