Statement on Health, Safety and Environment

The Directors of COPE recognise their legal and moral responsibilities to ensure the highest practicable level of health and safety of its employees in the workplace as well as their legal and moral responsibilities on the environment.

A Health and Safety Policy is available to all employees via the Company Extranet. Supporting the Policy are several Health and Safety procedural and advisory documents. All are regularly reviewed and updated. The COPE Health and Safety Committee meets periodically to monitor; accidents/incidents, any general H&S concerns, new health and safety legislation or best practice guidance and to implement proactive Health and Safety initiatives within COPE.

COPE’s environmental policy is based on a hierarchy of measures to eliminate, reduce, reuse and recycle elements involved in the running of its business so that the use or disposal of anything that may have a detrimental effect upon the environment is either eliminated or substantially reduced.

We are determined to ensure that our approach to COPE’s environmental impact is continuously reviewed and strengthened across the spectrum of our operations. Specifically, we will do this by integrating good environmental and resource management into all aspects of our business and by providing resources and expertise to make this a practical reality.