Sustainability
Sustainability
Midway is dedicated to contributing to a sustainable environment, supporting sustainable businesses and ensuring those working across our supply chain are supported and safe.
Midway is committed to supplying quality product in accordance with certified systems to assure customers and other stakeholders that Midway’s products are sourced and manufactured from well managed forests in which high conservation values are protected and wood supply chains are controlled.
Midway Group contributes to delivering high-quality sustainability outcomes across our supply chains.
Environment and Safety
Workplace Health And Safety
Midway is committed to providing a safe work environment for employees, contractors, customers and visitors. This commitment extends to ensuring that the organisation’s operations do not place the general public at risk of injury or illness.
Forest Supply Chains
Midway is committed to supplying products sourced from well managed forests in which high conservation values are protected and wood supply chains are controlled.
This includes doing everything reasonable to ensure that our supply chains includes fibre that is:
- Harvested from legal sources;
- Harvested with respect for traditional and civil rights;
- Harvested in forests where high conservation values are not threatened by management activities;
- Harvested from forests that do not include conversion of native forests to plantations or non-forest use;
- Harvested from forests free from genetically modified trees; and
- Harvested in compliance with any of the ILO Core Conventions, as defined in the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, 1998.
Certification
Midway’s certification and reporting provides credible externally verified assurance the Midway is delivering its sustainability objectives. Midway holds a variety of certifications across the Midway group that include:
- AS/NZS ISO45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems
- ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems
- AS 4708 Responsible Wood
- AS4707 Responsible Wood Chain of Custody
- FSC-STD-40-004 FSC Standard for Chain of Custody Certification
- FSC-STD-40-005 Requirements for Sourcing FSC®Controlled Wood
Stakeholder Consultation
Consideration of stakeholder input is a critical component of developing robust plans and procedures including the forest management plan. This is also recognised in relevant certification standards.
We invite stakeholders that have any interest in Midway’s activities to provide direct feedback in via the feedback form below.
We particularly welcome feedback in relation to Midway’s processes for ensuring High Conservation Values (HCVs) are identified and protected. High Conservation Values managed within our operations may include biodiversity, forest ecosystem health, soil, water, cultural heritage and heritage values.
Midway values the positive contribution that stakeholder perspectives and expertise make to effective forest management.
Consideration of stakeholder input is a critical component of developing robust plans and procedures including the forest management plan. This is also recognised in relevant certification standards.
Public Documents
To assist stakeholders to better understand the processes that we implement to manage values within the forest, a range of policy and procedural documents are made available publicly in the below link.
These documents also provide information regarding the implementation of relevant forest management and chain of custody certification standards.
