Congratulations to Sara, our General Manager and Beverley, our Business Support Officer for gaining their Carbon Literate Accreditation earlier this month. Thank you to Amy Coulter at Groundwork East for running an interesting and informative course, which we would recommend to any business to help them become more sustainable and environmentally aware.
Following our 2021 Silver Award with the Carbon Charter Organisation, our case study has now been published. Click here to read our case study and discover more about how we achieved our Silver Award. We are working our way towards the Gold Award in 2022 and as part of that process some team members will be attending a Carbon Literacy course in the spring, which will give us more of an insight into how we can achieve this. Find out more about the Carbon Charter by visiting www.carboncharter.org, where you can learn about environmental legislation and how you can reduce your carbon footprint.
We’re really pleased with the giant sign on our new warehouse, see if you can spot it when you drive past the Roy Humphrey Estate on the A140 at Brome, near Diss.
Thanks to FSG Signs in Norwich, who did a great job.
We achieved our ISO 14001 Environmental Management Accreditation alongside our ISO 9001, in the summer. As a company we work to reduce our carbon emissions, by continuously monitoring our fuel, waste, energy and packaging usage and finding ways to make significant and measurable progress.
In the summer of 2021 we received our ISO 9001 certification following our annual audit, by McKibben Management Consultants Ltd. The ISO 9001 certification is about developing a quality management system that works to consistently deliver the highest level of service to customers. This has been especially helpful during Brexit and the current Covid-19 pandemic, when logistics and warehousing have been under immense pressure.
Since we began working with ISO 9001 standard in 2019, we have developed new and improved ways of working, including with customers, suppliers and our own teams.
We also hold ISO 14001 and aim to be working towards other ISO standards in 2022.
We decided to have a little competition for the best Movember disguise, with a prize being some shaving gear!!
And the winner is Ian, our Health & Safety / Training Facilitator, sporting a rather impressive Hi Vis colour coordinated number.
Our thanks goes to Michaela Humphrey, who came along to be our judge.
We are extremely proud to have been awarded Silver by the Carbon Charter again this year. We have made significant reductions in our emissions this year and are actively encouraging all our team to keep looking for ways to improve our business practices and reduce them further.
We are working towards achieving Gold in 2022.
To find out more about the Carbon Charter go to https://carboncharter.org/
Six members of our team have willingly agreed to take part in the Movember ‘grow a moustache’ campaign. We are at day 15 and counting……
With the money raised, groundbreaking health projects across mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer, are funded.
So far they raised £310 and would love to get to £500 before the end of the challenge, so please help them by donating at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/cwlogisticsgrowamo
Part 1 – Lockdown and its effects
As COVID hit hard enough to cause a global lockdown in 2020, CWL found themselves suddenly processing high volumes of ecommerce orders driven by the uptake in online shoppers. Our fulfilment centre had to react quickly in order to despatch items to accommodate lockdown hobbies such as Kitchenware, Garden furniture and home improvement products. Our pick and pack operation had to navigate the challenge of a transport industry heavily affected by the demand and had to ensure we maximised distribution onto all available hauliers and carriers.
As lockdown continued, the national lack of PPE meant that we faced a new challenge of how to lend our resource to help our community in any way possible. CWL provided their own private transport to distribute PPE made by volunteers in the local community as well as our own staff members. Alongside our daily role as part of the supply chain for the NHS.
CWL’s dedicated storage warehouse for medical supplies was a beehive of activity, ensuring that essential supplies were distributed to the NHS regional distribution Centres (RDC’s) as well as the Nightingale Hospital in London. We worked alongside our transport partners to ensure the distribution ran smoothly.
The uncertainty surrounding product arriving from China added to the challenges, but our proximity to Felixstowe ensured we could continue to receipt containers speedily and commence distribution of product as normal. The flexibility of our operation was essential at this time and aided us in maintaining efficiency.
We are immensely proud of all members of staff (office & warehouse) who have worked so hard (either working in office, warehouse or from home) to safely keep distribution running efficiently during a very difficult and uncertain time. “