SITA keeps ecologically sustainable development by means of ISO14001:2015 standard

2020: Repeated certification on ISO 14001:2015

On July 20, 2020 it became known that the SITA company received the repeated certificate according to the international standard ISO 14001:2015 (the requirement to the system of ecological management) at several offices worldwide.

The certificate will be valid the next three years. The certified representations are located in Atlanta, Burlington, Geneva, London, Montreal, Rome, Singapore and in the amount make more than 40% of offices of the company.

At us it turned out to show to clients, partners and representatives of the sphere of air transport as SITA works on respect for the principles of sustainable development and aims to become the carbon and neutral company by 2022. We continue to move persistently to this purpose within the Planet+ program, focusing attention on aviation stability, reduction of negative effect by the environment of use of transport during the travel, including on reduction of emissions of a carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere. Corporate ecological management of the company is based on data of environmental monitoring which arrive from 26 key objects representing 81% of our labor resources, - Barbara Dalibard, the CEO of SITA said.

SITA collects ecological data since 2011. Information includes data on electricity consumption, waters, about volumes of use of paper and processing of IT assets and also about fuel consumption at air transportation and other indicators. In 2014 SITA made strategic decision to apply ISO 14001 as base to effective ecological management and decrease in adverse effect on the environment.

Obtaining the certificate according to ISO14001:2015 standard – the second most popular standard of International Organization for Standardization after ISO 9001 quality management system. Compliance of ISO14001: 2015 serves as the most important criterion of work for the companies committed to policy of sustainable development. This standard confirms that the organization meets the requirements of ecological sustainability and successfully implements policy of a responsible attitude to the environment.

Besides, SITA underwent certification on ISO and other international standards for rendering specific services and deployment of activity in certain points. Obtaining these certificates shows aspiration of the company not only to improve the work in the field of environmental protection, but also to optimize business management processes in general.