Tarmac CZ a.s. &
Sustainable Development
The company Tarmac CZ a.s. ranks among the most important mining companies in the Czech
Republic.
To make the company´s development sustainable, not just for current but also for future
generations, the resources, especially natural ones, have to be used
effectively. There are principally three pillars the effective use of
resources in the company is based on:
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Human resources – educated expert team, who are able to assess
company needs, to propose, put through and especially implement responsibly methods
leading to accomplishment of pre-set objectives. This pillar consists of:
- Shareholders and management, who bring and put into practice their vision in the
sense, that in the course of extraction and manufacturing of natural resources values
positively influencing the vast surroundings have to be created (job opportunities in
the time of exploitation, local development, infrastructure build up, the creation of
new important landscape elements like expanses of water during recultivation of
extracted areas)
- Employees, having an opportunity to put into practice their objectives
- Suppliers and customers, creating a multiplication effect in the employment
- Links to surrounding villages (for example technological assistance, the villages
would be otherwise unable to get themselves)
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Information basis – (research, development, media, fairs and
exhibitions) where customers’ needs meet the possibilities of the mining company. It is
necessary to influence all involved parties (investor, planner, technologist,
construction supplier, user) to realise that natural resources are limited.
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Systems, through which the rules for individual areas will be set
and defined, in order to eliminate borderline situations (accidents). The following
systems are the most important:
- System of occupational safety and health protection (e.g. OHSAS – ISO 18001),
- System of energy regulation (electrical energy, fuels, other energies)
- System of environmental protection (e.g. EMS – ISO 14001), with the stress
on:
- Soil protection (limited occupation of soil, overburden, dumping,
recultivation)
- Rock environment (efficient use of mineral resources)
- Air (point, surface, line resources)
- Water (water resources, water discharge)
- Other components of the environment
The three above pillars and their components constitute the outline of the Sustainable
Development Plan, which has been elaborated by the Tarmac CZ a.s.