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Our commitment to making good decisions for people and the planet

The impact we have on people and the planet is never an afterthought. Our governance, risk and compliance framework is designed to help everyone at OASIS make the responsible choice, every time. It is of utmost importance to us that we and our suppliers, are working responsibly throughout our value chain to deliver ethical and sustainable services.

Our values Inclusive, diverse, high-performing

We provide the open culture, our team brings the talent.

Creating a culture which welcomes diversity isn’t just responsible business, it’s good business sense. Our values promote inclusivity, to create an environment in which everyone can thrive and do their best work.

Our Values

Act with Honesty and Integrity

We apply the highest ethical standards in everything that we do. We work collaboratively across our teams, clients and partners.

Diversity and Inclusion

We actively seek to attract candidates from diverse backgrounds that represent our community and enhance our capability. We ensure that every person is supported and enabled to use their unique values and empowered to reach their potential.

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Balancing everyday life with the requirements of work and home can create pressures for all of us. We partner with external experts to provide specialist, independent support through an enhanced Employee Assistance Programme for colleagues and their immediate family members.

Our team of Mental Health First Aiders promote themselves across the organisation and are trained to coach and ensure staff have access to the right support in any situation. We also celebrate Awareness and Wellbeing days and have an active community of colleagues who are prepared to share their stories, to inspire confidence in others.

Health and Safety

We run comprehensive health and safety training for our operational workforce and have a programme of regular updates for staff, shared on different channels according to the needs and environment in which they are working.

Encourage Communication

As well as ensuring consistent updates and communications across teams. Our staff are encouraged and enabled to engage in transparent, two-way communication, across multiple channel options, to ensure everyone has a voice.

Safety and Security

We work together every day to ensure our people and our clients’ data is safe and secure.

Embracing a culture of change

We recognise that the pace and intensity of change can sometimes be challenging. Our leadership team champion change as a culture, helping staff to embrace and understand the value of change to our business and clients.

Talent Focused

Our people are at the heart of what we do, so we want to help them achieve their full potential. We work with team members to plan training and development through our appraisal processes, and reimburse membership fees and professional subscriptions.

Governance and compliance Your data, in the safest of hands

We hold all the certifications you would expect for an information management provider to highly-regulated industries.

Sustainable Business Taking steps to minimise our footprint

If you’re serious about sustainability, you need an information management partner who is too. We’re minimising our impact on local communities and the environment through initiatives including electric vehicle rollout across the organisation, designing new facilities for efficient energy use, responsible sourcing and recycling all waste paper.

The OASIS Impact Charter

We have developed an Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) Strategy and Action plan, the ‘OASIS Impact Charter’ with the mission to ‘Provide secure, people-powered, lower impact solutions’:

- Our people deliver market-leading services to our clients.

- We are focused on providing safe, secure solutions for all of our clients.

- We are working to decarbonise our solutions – benefitting our clients and the communities in which we operate.

- Our Impact Charter is integral to our overall company strategy, sponsored by our Board of Directors and Executive team.

Ethical suppliers

We very rarely use subcontractors, but on the few occasions we do, we ask them to complete a questionnaire aimed at making sure they can provide the necessary service in a safe, secure and ethical manner. Suppliers are audited annually.

When tendering, we ask questions aimed at encouraging a diverse range of businesses to apply. These include questions about price, availability, reputation, previous experience, quality, sustainability, and environmental management.

Putting waste to work

All shredding takes place either at our in-house facility or via our approved third party, is verified or aligned to BS 15713 and is verified to the British Standard for the Secure Destruction of Confidential Material (BS EN15713). Paper is shredded, then pulped and recycled in paper mills. The recycled material is turned into tissue products like toilet roll and kitchen roll. For every tonne of paper shredded and recycled, around 13 trees are saved.

Energy-efficient deliveries

Our fully-owned fleet is compliant to Euro 5 vehicle emissions standards or above. Route planning and delivery scheduling is coordinated to minimise fuel consumption and exhaust emissions. Our service and maintenance programme keeps vehicles safe and well-maintained.   

Over the past four years we have removed 167 less environmentally-friendly operational vehicles in the UK, due to dynamic route planning and the introduction of Euro 6 and electric vehicles.  

40%

reduction in operational carbon emissions

1 hour

from central London

109k squarefoot

of sustainable storage space

Our flagship, sustainable centre It doesn’t get greener than London Gateway

Our flagship centre, serviced by our EV fleet
Built to BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ standards: the world’s leading sustainability standard for building construction
Rainwater harvesting and rooftop solar PV
Planet Mark certification

London Gateway