Giraffe has addressed over 5000 companies on a variety of different producer responsibility directives including ErP, Batteries, WEEE, RoHS and REACH at public events across the country. We have directly advised over 100 companies in the EU, China, Hong Kong and US on how to comply with legislation and improve the environmental performance of their products and processes.
We believe these Directives present a good opportunity to improve the design or your company’s products and processes and reduce costs. Giraffe has identified over £30 million of potential savings to British companies.
Legislative Compliance Solution
As a business, you are required to comply with the relevant environmental legislation. Failure to do so can result in prosecution resulting in fines or even imprisonment. There is a whole host of environmental legislation out there and the task of identifying and understanding what is relevant to your business can be a daunting one. Giraffe has provided legal advice to numerous clients for many years, giving them peace of mind and avoiding environmental risk.
The services we offer:
Assessment and identification of applicable environmental legislation and other requirements (including voluntary schemes and standards)
- Development of an environmental legal register and other requirements (Compliant with ISO14001:2004 Environmental Management Systems)
- Development of environmental legal compliance monitoring tools
- Environmental legal compliance auditing services
- Regular updates to your environmental legal registers to include new and amended legislation
- Specialist advise on compliance issues
- Training on the basics of the legislation and how to comply
- Testing facilities for RoHS compliance
The benefits we can bring:
We will keep you up to date with environmental legislation giving you
- Peace of mind with legal compliance
- Reduced risks of your business causing damage to the environment
- Reduced risk of prosecution