What is sustainability?
Sustainable practice means we meet our present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
Why is your Vet Clinic interested in sustainability?
We believe that we have the best job in the world, we get to look after animals and their people and that allows us to be deeply involved in our community. We believe that our community needs us to not only meet our financial goals (i.e. stay in business!) but also to look after our staff well (so you regularly see our happy, fulfilled faces!) and to do this without impacting on the incredible environment that we have here in Tasman Bay.
What are our goals?
We want to :
- Ensure that sustainability is considered in all aspects of our day to day operations as well as in our future business planning
- Care for our staff by encouraging team-work, career development, promoting work–life balance, and providing a safe and healthy working environment
- Embrace products and services that are demonstrably more sustainable, equally as efficacious and are available at reasonable cost
- Ensure that we have a positive effect on our community and our environment
- Get in the habit of continually improving our environmental, social and economic performance. That means doing the hard yards of reviewing of our policies, activities and practices regularly and reporting on them
So what are we actually doing?