Assurance statement
Our performance against a selection of our environmental targets, has been assured by independent advisors, Environmental Resources Management Limited (ERM).
BAA’s overall assurance programme is designed to assure senior managers internally as well as external stakeholders that we are addressing material issues, delivering against our policies and have accurate and comprehensive information on our performance.
The programme includes regular internal audits, as well as the external assessment conducted this year by ERM.
As part of its wider assurance programme with BAA, ERM assessed BAA’s corporate level processes to identify and prioritise CR issues and reporting of selected environmental key performance indicators included in BAA Limited’s overall Corporate Responsibilty Report 2006/07 as well as progress against selected environmental targets at BAA’s other UK airports.
Our response to the 2005/06 assurance statement recommendations
Following the assurance of our 2005/06 environmental performance, ERM recommended that we:
- Define and approve resources required to achieve targets as part of target planning activities, to ensure that the necessary resources are allocated.
- Enhance change management procedures to ensure that corporate responsibility targets are passed between individuals and achieved even during times of change.
In response to these comments, we have improved our annual target setting process to include a cost benefit assessment, which includes ensuring we are clear at the beginning of the year the resource and cost involved in delivering the targets. All of our published targets are reviewed and signed off by the Heathrow and BAA boards.
We have also introduced a change management procedure into our newly integrated health, safety and environmental management system (see Section 6 Managing Corporate Responsibility for more information). By following this procedure we will ensure that where a change happens in ownership of a target, we will review this change and ensure that a new owner is identified promptly to ensure no delay to the implementation of the target.
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