Category: Environmental Initiatives

In the second blog looking at environmental policies, Abbey Petkar, Managing Director of Magenta Security Services, explores how improvements in environmental credentials can be achieved. Instigating and driving green policies and procedures is not something that can be achieved over night. To begin company-wide understanding, commitment and support a top down approach to the objective is of paramount importance. Staff must be involved at all levels of the organisation and given the opportunity to ask questions and provide thoughts and […]

Magenta Security has won the Security Excellence Award for Environmental Initiative of the Year. The leading security services provider previously won the award in 2009 and was a finalist in the same category in 2010 and 2011, demonstrating its commitment to improving its environmental policies. Now in their 14th year, the Security Excellence Awards promote and reward individuals and companies within the UK security industry for achieving the very highest standards and outstanding success. Magenta has had considerable success at […]

In the first of a two part blog, Abbey Petkar, managing director of Magenta Security Services, looks at the security industry’s green legacy. Being ‘green’ and environmentally friendly is now expected of companies, whatever industry they operate in. It is because an increasing number of clients have become much more aware of the need for sustainable resources and the effect pollution has on the environment. It’s reasonable to say that some security firms woke up to the green movement a […]

It was only a few years ago that ‘going green’ was seen as a rather twee idea that being environmentally friendly would somehow save the planet. Most big businesses didn’t see the link between being ‘green’ with economic growth and the maximisation of profitability. However, today being ‘green’ is about demonstrating corporate social responsibility and being part of the ‘solution’ rather than the ‘problem’. The security industry is one of the business sectors that is now having to face up […]

Hot on the heels of our recent success at the Security Excellence Awards, Magenta Security has been awarded first place in the Green Business Category of the Green Guardian Awards run by Newsquest. The awards are a prestigious regional accolade for the firm which received the Environmental Initiative of the Year Award at the Security Excellence Awards in 2009. Magenta Security Services, Managing Director, Abbey Petkar comments: “The award demonstrates that our environmental and CSR policies go beyond the levels […]

With the Cop 15 Climate Change event in Copenhagen drawing to a close, now is a time for reflection. A period for the governments and people involved to sit back and reflect on decisions made. Further treaties and agreements will no doubt be made over the course of the next few months as world leaders try to comprehend the scale of the challenges arrayed against them and bring about the changes needed to preserve this world and our natural resources. […]

Government, industry and private enterprise are slowly waking up to the fact that the biggest polluter of carbon dioxide is business. Despite endless campaigning to persuade people to reduce, reuse and recycle, it’s the businesses that need to curb their excess; as many churn out more paper and use more electricity and water in a day than the average household will use in a generation. As the government’s vision becomes more focused on this task, so will their insistence that policies […]