Corporate Responsibility at Belfast International Airport

• Employee opinion survey - demonstrates the company are committed to creating an environment where employees at all levels feel that they can speak honestly about the company and issues of importance to them - commit to discussing outcomes at senior management level and develop actions on the back of the research.
• Occupational Health and Safety policies - commit to improving safety in the workplace - develop incentive awards to encourage employee participation
• Value and develop employees

Customers

• Safety - commit to providing safe environment in relation to security & premises.

Suppliers

• Business partners should have the opportunity to benefit from their relationship with the company.
• Effective to organisation in terms of cost, standards, practices and policies towards corporate responsibility.

Regulators

• As corporate members of society, the company should be allowed to advocate their views to regulators when they are formulating public policies that affect the business and its stakeholders.
• Build relationships, trust and confidence.
• Community/Social Involvement i.e.
• Corporate Social Investment which is defined as any voluntary activity in cash or in kind, beyond commercial and legal contributions, that contributes to the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the local community.
• Participate in community initiatives and challenges - targeted to focus on activities that aim to enrich public and community life and projects that focus on giving people within the local community the training, education and opportunities to help them develop.
• Environmental Impact i.e.
• Aim to reduce water, energy and materials use, to reduce waste and increase recycling, to reduce airport CO2 emissions - audit, set targets.
• Transparent public reporting against ISO 14001 standard.
• Volunteer time and people

Belfast International Airport recognises the importance of establishing and maintaining links with local schools and colleges.

*We will therefore develop programmes with individual schools and colleges to suit their educational needs.

*Unfortunately we currently cannot accommodate school visits.

We recognise that our business activities have environmental consequences and we continuously review our environmental performance to seek to minimise and mitigate those effects.

For more information please download our Environmental Policy below.

Noise Monitoring

Belfast International Airport is committed to managing the noise from its operations and minimising its impact on communities living close to the airport.
If you have any queries or comments regarding noise from aircraft please email environment@bfs.aero.  Alternatively you can download our noise monitoring form below.      

Environmental Noise Directive Action Plan

Belfast International Airport has prepared a Round Two Noise Action Plan in accordance with the European Union Environmental Noise Directive (Directive 2002/49/EC) also known as the ‘END’.

The directive is implemented by The Environmental Noise Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006,

Airport Consultative Forum

The Belfast International Airport Consultative Forum was established under Article 20(1) of the Airports (Northern Ireland) Order 1994, and follows Government guidelines for Airport Consultative Committees.

Membership

Membership of the independently chaired Airport Forum comprises stakeholders from the local and business communities, as well as airport and airline representatives. The forum provides a forum for consultation, communication and feedback on the Airport’s operations and future developments.

The forum will meet three times a year at Belfast International Airport.

Objectives

• To help BIA understand and respond to passengers’ expectations and needs;
• To advise BIA on measures to enhance and develop the facilities and services to assist BIA in their strategic objective of increasing passenger, airline and destination growth;
  To review passenger information (internal, external, multi-media) through the eyes of the public and provide recommendations to BIA;
• To review the extent to which passenger and airline/service satisfaction surveys are “fit for future purpose” and provide recommendations to BIA, and to commission research/surveys as felt appropriate on behalf of BIA;
• To identify external gaps that limit the passenger growth and/or experience including infrastructure, aviation strategy, value for money, accessibility, regulation etc.
• To fairly represent the interests of BIA where appropriate.

Public consultation prior to the implementation of Belfast International Airport Sound Insulation Grant Scheme (SIGS). 

Belfast International Airport has opened its public consultation prior to the implementation of a Sound Insulation Grant Scheme (SIGS).

For residential properties that fall within the SIGS boundary, the scheme may be able to offer a grant towards secondary glazing, high performance double glazing or loft insulation.

If your property qualifies for this scheme it will be able to offer grants towards secondary glazing, high performance double glazing or loft insulation.

For further information or to see if your property qualifies please download the following documents:

Airport Carbon Accreditation

Belfast International Airport, member of the VINCI Airports network since 2018, has entered the Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) program by reaching the level 2 Reduction for its initiatives to reduce its carbon footprint. ACA is the only global, airport-specific program that certifies airports' efforts to manage and reduce its carbon emissions.

This accreditation illustrates the efficiency of VINCI Airports’ environmental action plan in Belfast airport. Since joining VINCI Airports network, Belfast airport has achieved a -20 % decrease of its direct carbon emissions, with key actions including LED relamping of the airport terminal and improvement of the management of energy consumption.

Download Environmental Policy Statement