Carbon Reduction Plan

Commitment to achieving Net Zero

Featherstone Safety Ltd has made the SME Climate Commitment through the SME Climate Hub, which is recognised by the United Nations Race to Zero campaign.

In making that commitment we have pledged to:

• Halve our greenhouse gas emissions before 2030;
• Achieve net zero emissions before 2050; and
• Disclose our progress yearly.

This is consistent with, and more demanding than, the UK’s statutory net zero target under the Climate Change Act 2008 as amended.

This plan is owned and approved by the director, who holds top-level responsibility for the objectives and targets in it and for reviewing progress against them annually.

Our organisation

Featherstone Safety Ltd was incorporated on 19 August 2026. We are a UK health and safety consultancy and software business. We have no employees, no manufacturing, no warehousing, no owned vehicle fleet and no industrial processes. We operate only in the United Kingdom.

Our emissions profile is therefore small and concentrated in a few places: business travel by car, the energy used by our workspace and computing equipment, the data centres our cloud suppliers operate on our behalf, and the equipment and consumables we buy.

Baseline emissions footprint

A baseline is a record of greenhouse gas emissions over a twelve-month period, against which reduction is measured.

Baseline year: the twelve months from incorporation, 19 August 2026 to 18 August 2027. The company was incorporated on 19 August 2026, so a full twelve months of operating data does not yet exist. The baseline figures below will be published here when the first full year is complete. We have chosen not to publish estimated figures in the meantime: an emissions figure that was guessed is worse than an honest gap, and it would misrepresent our position to a customer relying on it.

Emissions will be calculated using the UK Government greenhouse gas conversion factors for company reporting, published annually by DESNZ.

Current emissions reporting

The current reporting year is the same as the baseline year, so current emissions will be reported here alongside the baseline when the first full year is complete. Thereafter this plan will be updated annually with current-year figures against the baseline.

Emissions reduction targets

Under the SME Climate Commitment our targets are a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions before 2030 and net zero before 2050. The percentage is fixed; the corresponding figures in tCO2e will be published here once the baseline has been measured, because a tonnage target set before measuring anything would be arbitrary.

The commitments that apply now, and do not depend on the baseline, are:

• to halve emissions before 2030 and reach net zero before 2050;
• to measure and disclose our emissions annually from the end of the first full trading year;
• to keep business travel as the primary focus of reduction, since it is our largest expected source; and
• not to rely on offsetting in place of reduction.

Carbon reduction projects

Measures already in place

• Remote-first delivery. Assessments, reviews, training and meetings are delivered remotely wherever doing so does not compromise the quality of the work. Site visits are made when seeing the workplace genuinely matters, which in health and safety work is often, but the default is remote.
• Journey combining and route planning where more than one customer visit can be made in a region.
• A digital-first product. Featherstone Safety Hub replaces printed risk assessments, paper checklists, training records and folders of paper evidence with digital records. The emissions avoided in our customers’ operations are larger than our own total footprint, though they fall outside our reporting boundary.
• Paperless working. We work from digital documents and print only where a customer or site requires a paper copy.
• Extended equipment life. IT hardware is used for as long as it remains serviceable and secure, and is disposed of at end of life through a licensed WEEE route.
• Cloud infrastructure. We host with managed providers operating in the UK and EEA, whose data centre efficiency substantially exceeds anything a business of our size could achieve with its own hardware.

Measures planned

• Complete the baseline measurement at the end of the first full trading year.
• Set a quantified interim reduction target against that baseline.
• Record business mileage systematically so that travel emissions can be tracked rather than estimated.
• Consider a lower-emission vehicle at the point the current vehicle is replaced.
• Include environmental criteria in supplier selection, as set out in our Sustainable Procurement Strategy.

What this plan does not claim

We hold no environmental certification and are not certified to ISO 14001. We do not report through CDP, TCFD or TNFD. We have not prepared a Climate Transition Plan. We do not describe ourselves as carbon neutral or net zero today, and we make no offsetting claim.

The SME Climate Commitment is a public pledge recognised by the UN Race to Zero. It is not the same as a Science Based Target validated by the Science Based Targets initiative, and we do not claim SBTi validation. We say so plainly because the two are often conflated, and the distinction matters to anyone assessing us.

We are below the thresholds for Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting and for the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme, and have no reporting obligation under either.

Declaration and sign off

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with Procurement Policy Note 006 and associated guidance and reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans.

Emissions will be reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard, using the UK Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the director of Featherstone Safety Ltd, who is the board-equivalent owner for a company of this structure.

Signed: Thomas Featherstone, Director
For and on behalf of: Featherstone Safety Ltd
Date: 22 August 2026
Next review: annually, and on completion of the first full trading year