Core Point is serious about taking up the challenge of building and directing our business for long-term sustainability.  We are committed to being not just compliant but an internationally competitive leader in business sustainability.  We are partnering with the Sustainable Industries Division of the Environmental Protection Agency to leverage off their great wealth of experience to invest, compete and profit sustainably.

Sustainability is a way of doing business that improves outcomes for employees, business partners, shareholders and the community in which we do business and is part of our core  business.

We do this by addressing our performance against a comprehensive set of criteria namely the following three areas - environmental, social and economic issues.  This ‘Triple Bottom Line’ approach simply means that we have a roadmap to ‘do the right thing’. 

Our ‘Core Point Business Sustainability Roadmap’ is a company wide program that launches us toward continuous improvement in the areas of business process, environmental stewardship, sustainable technologies and systems, health and safety, ethics and conduct, our people and community relations.

Core Point aims to list on Australian Sustainability Indexes.

Core Point’s Sustainability Goals for 2009

Environment

We have targets to improve in the following areas

• Energy efficiency – reduce consumption by up to 30%
• Water efficiency – target 140
• Lighting – energy efficient lighting in all offices
• Heating and cooling
• Appliance efficiency
• Office products and disposables
• Unnecessary expenditure (how can we cut our bills)
• Recycling and waste (reduce waste and recycle as much as possible)
• Transport

Core Point Directors sponsor ‘Environment and Safety Awards’ that reward innovative ideas or actions that improve or meet our environmental targets.

Assisting our Business Partners to do the same, starting with compliance and moving steadily towards maintaining business viability while providing economic, environmental and social dividends.

Community

• Core point employees, contractors and our local community aim to raise $1000 annually for the Surf Life Savers
• Core Point employees, contractors and business partners take a day out of every year to ‘Clean up Australia’
• Core Point sponsor one other worthy community organisation or event each year. That organisation is chosen as needs arise – for example in 2008 the Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal which is aimed at assisting those in our own community who were most affected by the devastating November storms.

Our People

• Core Point sponsors employee and contractor participation in the company’s ongoing health check program.  The focus of this program is on nutrition, health and weight loss
• Core Point Directors sponsor ‘Environment and Safety Awards’ that reward innovative ideas or actions that improve or meet our environmental targets

Economic

• Meeting growth targets with overall focus on business process improvement in line with our mission to bring wealth to our shareholders
• New project targets