Environmental issues are coordinated on the corporate level by the environmental director, who reports to the head of Global Technology. Progress is reported to the KONE executive board on a monthly basis by the owner of the development program, the head of Global Technology.
Most of KONE’s country organizations have an organization responsible for environment, quality,
health and safety. Similarly, engineering and production centers are responsible for local environmental, quality, health and safety issues.
Planning and steering the environmental development, reporting achievements and corrective actions are integral parts of KONE’s Environmental Excellence management. In the Environmental Excellence program, KONE has five key initiatives, which have ambitious targets. This forms the basic structure for KONE’s environmental management system, which clearly aims at continuous development in products and services as well as in everyday operations.
KONE‘s environmental management system is ISO 14001-certified, which is the most well known and globally recognized environmental management system standard. It is also typically respected and required by KONE customers.
KONE’s global manufacturing network has adopted ISO 14001, and most of the manufacturing
facilities hold the certificates. Seven country organizations had ISO 14001 certificates in 2008.
KONE Corporation complied with ISO 14001 in early 2009 and seven more local organizations are expected to comply with ISO 14001 by the end of 2009.