Aiming to be a centre of excellence in its services and happiness, freedom, tolerance, and success for its staff and students, Beykoz University believes that human resources are the most important element of its institutional structure. Beykoz University is committed to fostering a culture of environmental responsibility and ensuring the health and safety of all our stakeholders. We are aware of our responsibility to minimize our environmental impact and prioritize the well-being of our students, all employees, visitors, and suppliers.
Our university will strive to exceed regulatory compliance wherever possible to achieve the highest environmental and occupational health and safety performance standards. In this context, we are committed to continuously improving our occupational health and safety (OHS) and environmental management systems and ensuring environmental sustainability.
1. Compliance Obligations and Regulatory Compliance:
- We will identify, assess, and manage environmental and occupational health and safety risks associated with all our activities. We are committed to exceeding regulatory compliance and aiming for the highest standards.
- We guarantee that we will take the necessary steps to fulfil our compliance obligations.
2. Risk Assessment and Management:
- It includes conducting regular risk assessments, implementing appropriate controls, and continuously monitoring and improving our risk management processes. These processes include ensuring safe and healthy working conditions to prevent occupational accidents and ill health, and environmental impact.
3. Environmental Sustainability:
- We are committed to preventing environmental pollution and minimizing our environmental impact. This includes implementing pollution prevention measures, reducing resource consumption, promoting waste reduction and recycling initiatives, and responsibly managing hazardous material and waste streams.
- To ensure environmental sustainability, this includes specific commitments such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable resource use, and protecting biodiversity and ecosystems.
4. Emergency Preparedness and Response:
- We will develop and maintain comprehensive emergency preparedness and response plans to effectively respond to environmental incidents, workplace accidents, and other emergencies. We prioritize providing emergency response training, conducting drills, and collaborating with relevant authorities and stakeholders to eliminate hazards and reduce risks.
5. Stakeholder Engagement and Communication:
- We encourage open communication, collaboration, consultation, and participation with all stakeholders, including students, faculty, staff, employee representatives, suppliers, local communities, regulatory bodies, and other interested parties. We are committed to consultation and participation by employees and employee representatives.
6. Continuous Improvement and Innovation:
- We are committed to preventing pollution and minimizing environmental impacts to ensure environmental sustainability. To this end, we are also committed to raising public awareness through innovative practices, continuous improvement, and education and awareness projects.
- We will take the necessary steps to continuously improve our OHS and environmental management systems and aim to continuously improve our performance.
7. Environmental and OHS Objectives:
- Within the scope of "Social Contribution" activities, which are among the basic services of our university, we provide a framework for determining the environmental and OHS objectives compatible with the institutional foundations and context of our university, including the environmental impacts of the services we offer on the basis of all academic and administrative units.
This content was updated on 19/07/2024.