Managing our Responsibilities / Benchmarking & Recognition
ScottishPower participates in a number of external indices and award programmes to allow comparison of our approach and performance against others in our industry, and more broadly.
Important indices we participate in include:
Business in the Community
- 2007 BitC CR Index - Platinum Company (> 95%)
- 2007 Business in the Environment Index – Platinum Company (>95%)
- Member of the BitC CR Index Leadership Group
Business in the Community Awards for Excellence 2008
4 of our existing Big Ticks received reaccreditations
- HBOS Responsible Marketing, Commonsense from ScottishPower
- Merrill Lynch Education, ScottishPower Learning School to Work
- Tata Consultancy Services Marketplace Innovation for ScotAsh
- Lafarge Cement UK Eco Efficiency for ScotAsh)
Business in the Community http://www.bitc.org.uk/
Carbon Disclosure Project
SottishPower provides information to IBERDROLA for their submission to the Carbon Disclosure Project's Climate Leadership Index of top 50 global companies. We are pleased to report that for the second year IBERDROLA outperformed all other utilities and was ranked as the world's top utility in the 2008 index. The Carbon Disclosure Project is the world's largest institutional investor collaboration on the business implications for climate change. More than 1,000 large corporations report on their emissions through their website: www.cdproject.net/
In December, PowerWise, our children's safety education programme won the Utility Week Industry Achievement Award for Community Initiative of the Year.
In October PowerWise was also awarded the Best Health and Safety Achievement in a Utility by the Safety & Health Practitioners/Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.
In June we were awarded the Payroll Giving Silver Quality Mark by HM Government/Institute of Fundraising.
In December ScottishPower Pipe Band won the Scottish Pipe Band of the Year at the Scots Traditional Music Awards
ScotAsh, our joint venture with Lafarge Cement was also given a VIBES (Vision in Business for the Environment) Management Award
In October, Barry Wilson, the Principal Drummer with the ScottishPower Pipe Band was awarded the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (RSPBA) World Solo Drumming Champion
In September ScottishPower Learning was awarded Overall Employer of the Year for Apprentice training by Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
In July, ScottishPower was awarded the Healthy Working Lives Gold Award
In May, ScotAsh, our joint venture with Lafarge Cement was awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Sustainable Development Category
In May, ScottishPower Fleet Business was awarded the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Managing Operational Road Risk Award
Core was given an award by West Lothian Council Considerate Contractor Scheme for the Most Improved Contractor
The following ScottishPower businesses were also awarded RoSPA safety awards
- Energy Wholesale, Rye House Power Station - Presidents Awards
- ScotAsh - Gold Award
- Energy Wholesale, Shoreham Power Station - Silver Award
In April 2008 ScottishPower's Energy Retail business scooped a hat-trick of awards at the ninth Annual International IQPC Process Excellence Awards. They were awarded:
- Best Design for Six Sigma Project - Final Debt Reduction
- Best Project Contributing to Innovation - Long Term Vacants
- Best Improvement Programme - Energy Retail Business Transformation
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