Rutter’s round-up
Rutter also responded to the following questions:
Peter Figoni, technical director, Epson UK: “Is this scheme only relevant to manufacturing organisations. We are a UK sales company and our product is sold to us my our mother organisation?”
Rutter: “No, all organisations including not-for-profit bodies and any other non-public sector undertakings that are large enough to meet the qualification criteria will need to comply with the ESOS legislation.”
Ken Tidd from Alcoa Manufacturing (GB): “We are an American Group and our plant was recently certified to ISO 50001. There are four other sister companies in the UK independent of ourselves – none of these have ISO 50001. What ESOS route do we have to take? Our site consumes 350,000,000 kWh of energy per year whereas our sister companies are a fraction of this.”
Rutter: “Your ESOS survey will need to cover 90% of your total organisation’s energy use. If the site certified by ISO50001 does account for 90% of your energy consumption you will automatically comply with ESOS and no further survey work will be required – though an assessment to prove that you have complied will need completing by a lead assessor.
“If it doesn’t, your choice is to either go for ISO50001 accreditation across all your sites/sister companies, or to undertake an ESOS assessment for all the sites/companies together. A good start point would be to undertake a gap analysis to identify just what would be required to extend ISO50001 across the entire organisation – or to meet the 90% requirement.”
Padraig Ryan, group sustainability officer, Irish Dairy Board: “Can people who have professional qualifications from outside of the UK (Ireland) qualify?”
Sean Axon, group sustainability director, Johnson Matthey: “If a company is a UK Plc, but has operations also overseas, does ESOS require the audit to cover these operations i.e. for the whole organisation?”
Rutter: “No, ESOS will only cover those operations in the UK. Operations in other EU countries will come under the regulations in force in those countries.”