Explain the Responsibilities of Tarmac and Identify Strategies Employed to Meet Them

EXPLAIN THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF TARMAC AND IDENTIFY STRATEGIES EMPLOYED TO MEET THEM

The responsibilities of Tarmac are:

i. To produce good quality materials

ii. To develop the world in which we live, and

iii. To behave responsibly with sustainability in mind.

Tarmac makes a mission statement which set the stage for corporate planning, budgeting, corporate governance rules, corporate values or culture and human resource principles in order to meet its responsibilities.

1. Production of Good Quality Materials

Tarmac is master in the production of high quality quarry materials. Engineering departments are created for growth, development and maintenance of the plants and infrastructure needed to make good quality products. The technical people liaise with technical support functions and customers to ensure that their products meet the national and international standards.

2. Development of the World in which we live

Tarmac manages health, safety and the environment responsibly by implementing sustainable projects such as restoration of quarries after use. It deals with business, non profit making organisations and government bodies. Tarmac recycles 1,940,000 tonnes of construction, demolition and excavation waste and uses 1,300,000 of the waste to restore their quarries every year.

Development in various countries in the world requires construction of roads, sewage, aero drums, housing estate, etc for which Tarmac products are essential. Tarmac materials are key to economic, social and cultural development.

3. Behave responsibly with sustainability in mind

Tarmac is aware of the long-term effects of quarrying sand and gravel and the need to make itself and its environment more sustainable.

The company partners with the Royal Society for the protection of birds to restore reed beds so that the Bittern can return to the sites where it has previously explored and exploited. Tarmac prepares previously excavated land ready for the planting of reeds. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds then manages and monitors the land and wildlife it attracts. The porous pavement drainage system constructed at their sites reduces the risk and cost of flash flooding.

Tarmac has planted over 115,500 trees in the last five years to restore the environment. Over 14,000 metres of Ledge rows have been planted in the United Kingdom within the same period.

Tarmac holistically concerns itself with safety, health and the environment.

TASK 2

2a) Give examples of two types of economic systems and explain