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Company Name:
Eaga Plc
Website:
www.eaga.com
Industry Sectors:
Support Services, Energy Efficiency, Renewables
SEE Listing Publication Date:
[Not yet fully SEE listed]

SEE Questionnaire Summary

Business Introduction

Description of business

As tackling climate change, reducing carbon emissions, controlling energy costs and promoting energy conservation have moved towards the top of the business, politics and society agendas, demand for energy efficiency products and services has grown.

Since Eaga’s establishment in 1990 we've been at the forefront of environment, energy efficiency and social justice agendas across the UK, with operations in Canada, India and Ireland.

Eaga operates across a broad spectrum of markets, although the services we offer address the fundamental challenges of climate change and/or social inclusion. We have specialised in delivering large scale programmes for two decades, with capacity that serves thousands of customers across the country every single day.

As the UK’s leading provider of residential energy efficiency solutions, Eaga’s activities reduce carbon emissions by more than one tonne in the average home. We insulate a quarter of a million homes and fit more than 50,000 energy efficient central heating systems across the country every year. We are also pioneering renewable energy technologies such as solar thermal and air source heat pumps, and are leading on the development of future technologies in large-scale service delivery.

We're a co-owned business with more than 5,000 Partners (our employees) in over 50 locations. We are proud to deliver outstanding customer service and central to our success is solid commitment to the principles of employee ownership and our strong corporate and social values.

Business vision

Our vision is to lead the support services sector in the delivery of products and services that tackle environmental, energy efficiency and social justice challenges.

Business aims

To lead the support services sector in the delivery of products and services that tackle environmental, energy efficiency and social justice challenges.

To demonstrate that we care for our Partners, customers and communities with integrity, respect and enthusiasm.

Business philosophies and beliefs

We are a unique, values-driven co-owned business, and care for our Partners, customers and communities with integrity, respect and enthusiasm.

Business Values

  • We are a winning team

  • We are customer focused

  • We are dedicated to continuous improvement

  • We have a sense of urgency

  • We act responsibly and safely

  • We are professionals

  • We embrace change and will maintain a sense of fun

Business Information

Date established:
1990
Contact details
Sam Robinson Social Responsibility Manager sam.robinson@eaga.com 01912458533
Business structure
co-owned plc
Address of company headquarters
Eaga House Archbold Terrace Jesmond Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 1DB
Countries of operations
UK, Republic of Ireland, Canada, India.
Countries where goods and/or services are sold
Services provided in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Canada and India.
Size of workforce
5,000.
Financial year
1st June to 31st May.
Market capitalisation
At our most recent reporting date of 31st May 2009 eaga's market capitalisation figure was GBP £738.9 million.
Turnover (last financial year)
Please click here to refer to our 2009 Annual Report and Accounts [http://ww7.global3digital.com/exreport/pdfs/viewer.jsp?ref=8&page=1&zoom=std&view=list&layout=single]
Profit (last financial year)
Please click here to refer to our 2009 Annual Report and Accounts [http://ww7.global3digital.com/exreport/pdfs/viewer.jsp?ref=8&page=1&zoom=std&view=list&layout=single]
Details of owners
Please click here to refer to our 2009 Annual Report and Accounts [http://ww7.global3digital.com/exreport/pdfs/viewer.jsp?ref=8&page=1&zoom=std&view=list&layout=single]
Directors' other business interests
Please click here to refer to our 2009 Annual Report and Accounts [http://ww7.global3digital.com/exreport/pdfs/viewer.jsp?ref=8&page=1&zoom=std&view=list&layout=single]

Goods and Services

Eaga operates across a broad spectrum of markets, although the services we offer all address the fundamental challenges of climate change and social inclusion. We have a proven infrastructure that has driven our ability to deliver large scale programmes for the last two decades, with a delivery capacity that serves thousands of customers across the country every single day.

Climate Change

As the UK’s leading provider of residential energy efficiency solutions, Eaga’s activities reduce carbon emissions by more than a tonne in the average home. We insulate a quarter of a million homes and fit more than 50,000 energy efficient central heating systems across the country every year.

We are also pioneering renewable energy solutions such as solar thermal and air source heat pumps, and are leading on the development of future technologies.

We have a history of devising, developing and delivering innovative environmental products, and rolling them out at scale nationwide. For example, the Eaga Showersmart has been installed in hundreds of thousands of homes in the UK, a unique device that helps householders to save water and save energy, making a real impact on climate change in the process.

Social Inclusion

Since 1990, Eaga has delivered to some of the most vulnerable homes in society. We have helped reduce fuel poverty, provide greater warmth and comfort and have boosted incomes to millions of families across the UK. Our experience in identifying those most vulnerable, understanding how to meet their needs and providing real solutions that make a lasting difference is both substantial and proven across many years.

Through Schemes such as Warm Front, the Digital Switchover Help Scheme, the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (HEES) and Benefit Entitlement Check, we remain a force for social inclusion today, serving customers with high demands but low expectations, and making sure that our focus on service excellence never wavers.

Business Responses

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Workforce

Has your company implemented a strategy for promoting health and safety at work?

Rationale for question

Businesses have a responsibility to ensure employee well-being and safety in the workplace. Not only is it an ethical and legal duty, but effective management of health and safety issues also leads to fewer absences, improved staff retention, higher morale and higher productivity. A health and safety policy can provide protection for both employers and employees should a dispute arise related to injury or illness.

Health and safety is relevant to all places of work. For example, health risks might include:
  • poor lifting techniques;
  • incorrect handling of materials;
  • working in noisy environments;
  • working at a computer with poor set-up; and
  • working long hours and to tight deadlines.

Safety risks might include:

  • slips, trips and falls;
  • poorly maintained facilities and equipment; and
  • working with heavy machinery.

Notwithstanding the human cost of illness or injury, it is much more effective to implement practices and policies to protect health and maintain safety than it is to pay the costs of absence and sickness and risk the loss of business. An effective strategy allows a company to keep valued and experienced staff, to reduce sickness payment costs and reduce the cost of temporary staff or recruiting new staff. It also reduces the pressure on other employees covering when colleagues are sick.


A strategy for promoting health and safety may include:

  • evaluating health and safety risks regularly;
  • training staff in effective work practices;
  • inspecting and monitoring company safety performance;
  • improving operations to remove or reduce work-related injuries or sickness;
  • reviewing health and safety at management level; and
  • assigning responsibility for health and safety to a named individual.

Defining Terms

A 'strategy' is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal taking into consideration the widest possible set of potential options and their impacts. It must include actions that are undertaken consistently. In the case of health and safety, it involves not only meeting minimum legal requirements, but also considering work environment and practices.

Primary and Secondary answer requirements

ANSWERING YES

Companies must:

  1. explain the components of their health and safety strategy (as described in the rationale); and
  2. describe how it is implemented and monitored.

Companies may:

  1. mention any successes in dealing with health and safety issues, e.g. a reduction in workplace accidents or workforce sickness.

ANSWERING NO

Companies must:

  1. explain why they do not or cannot answer YES to this question, listing the business reasons, any mitigating circumstances or other reasons that apply.

Companies may:

  1. describe any future intentions regarding this issue.

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NO ANSWER YET is only permissible under extraordinary circumstances and then for only a limited period.

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