Glossary
We want to make Corporate Responsibility (CR) as easy to understand as possible. We recognise that CR documents often include a lot of jargon. Here’s a quick glossary of some commonly-used terms that you might find on our website and other CR resources:
| QSE | Quality, Safety and Environment |
| HSE | Health and Safety Executive – the UK regulatory authority for health and safety legislation and incidents |
| CIC | Construction Industry Council. Visit www.cic.org.uk |
| ESRA | Atkins’ sustainability awareness programme - Enable Sustainability Raising Awareness |
| SUSNET | The Atkins SUStainability NETwork is a knowledge sharing resource for Atkins employees |
| Viewpoint | Atkins’ annual employee engagement survey |
| AIR | Accident Incident Rate measured by number of accidents per 100,000 staff or contractors |
| LEED | Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Visit www.usgbc.org/leed |
| BREEAM | Building Research Establishment (BRE) Environmental Assessment Method. Visit www.breeam.org |
| Environment Agency | The UK regulatory authority for environmental legislation, pollution and incidents |
| ISO 9001 | The International Standard for quality management systems |
| ISO 14001 | The International Standard for environmental management systems |
| Management System | A systematic approach to documenting, controlling and improving the organisation’s impacts, risks and objectives |
| BS OHSAS 18001 | The requirements for health and safety management systems |
| Renewable Energy | Energy supplies from resources that are not depleted during generation such as solar, wind, geo-thermal and water power. Non renewable energy consumes resources such as coal, oil and gas during generation |
| Sustainability | Meeting the needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of future generations from an economic, social and environmental perspective |