Objective 3
To educate and raise environmental awareness
It takes vast amounts of knowledge and experience to fulfil the requirements of environmental protection law, particularly because of its constant evolution, but also because of the growing importance – and awareness – of environmental issues. Fortunately, the PGNiG Group can boast excellent employees, who have the relevant education and many years of experience in the field. In addition, PGNiG seeks to ensure that all Group employees are properly educated in the field of environmental protection.
Initiatives/best practices
Individual PGNiG Group entities designed a training scheme for the EMS in accordance with the requirements of PN-EN ISO 14001. It covers three types of training. First, there is induction training for new employees to explain basic EMS concepts and requirements of PN-EN ISO 14001 and the environmental management system as used by the specific PGNiG Group entities. Second, there is refresher training to periodically refresh employees’ knowledge and raise their awareness of how important it is to comply with the Environmental Policy and other procedures in place in connection with the EMS implementation at the company. Refresher training is also used to present existing or potential significant impacts on the environment caused by employees. Finally, we organise improvement training in an attempt to upgrade the qualifications of key personnel and internal auditors supporting the environmental management systems at individual PGNiG Group entities. All PGNiG Group entities which have in place the environmental management systems organised a total of 1,102 induction, refresher and improvement training sessions in 2011.