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The Keyholding Company (TKC), a tech-enabled security services company, has officially become B Corp Certified, joining a global community of around 6,000 businesses dedicated to meeting high standards of environmental and social impact.
B Corp is a global standard for ethical business practice established by B Lab, a non-profit organisation that is working towards a common vision of “business as a force for good”. Being B Corp Certified represents a commitment to operating with transparency and accountability, in which businesses must balance profit with purpose. For TKC, this certification affirms its commitment to ethical practices, sustainability, and driving positive impact within the security industry.
To achieve certification, TKC underwent B Lab’s rigorous B Impact Assessment, which evaluates performance across five key areas: Governance, Environment, Workers, Community and Customers.
TKC believes that exceptional security services can coexist with a commitment to protecting people and the planet and saw achieving B Corp Certification as the ideal framework to unite the many ESG initiatives it already had in place.
This belief drives its commitment to impactful actions, such as introducing an electric vehicle fleet within its London Operations, implementing transparent emissions reporting, fostering active ED&I strategies geared towards personal and professional development like the award-nominated My TKC Journey initiative, and championing local businesses via its service partner network.
Charlie Gordon Lennox, TKC’s CEO said: “Our B Corp Certification highlights that the security industry can and should take ethics, sustainability, and community impact seriously. There is an increasing call for responsible practices. We want to show that it is possible to uphold high ethical standards while maintaining operational excellence.”
Maintaining the certification requires ongoing commitment, with companies needing to re-certify every three years and publish annual Impact Reports, detailing how they are tracking against various assessment criteria and sustainability objectives.
TKC acknowledges whilst there is still more work ahead, it says it is proud of reaching this milestone, and remains committed to continually raising standards and driving its vision of an inclusive, equitable and sustainable security industry.
FMJ has partnered with Watco to deliver a webinar on Thursday 30th January where we will be grilling a panel of experts on how facilities managers can maintain a safe workplace while balancing shrinking budgets.
The webinar follows the Lifting the Lid report series that the industrial paint and repair products specialist has been developing over the past few years based on research conducted with FMs across the UK. The research explored core responsibilities of the FM role, including how they have evolved in the past decade, and the associated challenges to manage.
Watco’s Sales Director and key contributor to the reports, Chris Budd, will be joined by a panel of experts including Phil Pinnington, Head of Audit & Consultancy at the British Safety Council, Nick Bray, Head of HSEQ, ISS UK and Ireland and Jenni Gallop, Director of Estates and Facilities at Provide Community.
With decades of combined experience in the introduction and management of health and safety in complex, demanding environments, the panel will provide the audience with recommendations broken down into steps that can be introduced immediately.
The panel will discuss the research data from FMs across the UK, the evidence they have seen of those experiences across industries and their first-hand recommendations on how to manage those challenges and ease the pressure.
Click here to sign up for the webinar.
