Report outlines structure for corporate sustainability and
responsibility programs, including commitments to diversity, community
engagement and the environment
Company Website:
http://www.ironmountain.com
BOSTON -- (Business Wire)
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information
management company, today published its first sustainability and
corporate responsibility (CR) report. Available for download via Iron
Mountain’s Taking
CARE web portal, the report provides an overview of the
company’s commitment to workplace diversity, community involvement and
environmental responsibility.
“Our company has always held itself to a set of core values and ethical
practices for how to treat each other and do business,” said William L.
Meaney, president & CEO of Iron Mountain. “In 2012, we codified these
values into our corporate responsibility platform Taking CARE so
that we can properly respond to and assist in addressing some of the
many multi-faceted social and environmental challenges facing the
communities in which we operate. We hope this initial report provides
our customers, employees and investors with the level of transparency
and accountability they expect from us as we work to continually improve
our workplace and the communities where we do business.”
Iron Mountain’s CR report details the goals, activities, and early
results of the company’s Taking CARE platform, which comprises
these four areas.
- Our Promise – Iron Mountain’s commitment to protecting its
customers’ information and privacy, enabling them to focus on their
core business;
- Our People – The creation of an inclusive culture that allows
Iron Mountain employees to reach their potential and to be guardians
of the world’s most valuable information;
- Our Environment - Iron Mountain’s efforts to limit its impact
on the environment and partner with customers to aid their efforts in
doing the same;
- Our Community – Support of Iron Mountain’s local communities
through employee volunteering and corporate philanthropy, including
the protection of cultural and historical treasures.
“As a responsible corporate citizen, we’re passionate about serving our
customers and communities and are committed to building a great
workplace and a better world,” said Ty Ondatje, Iron Mountain’s senior
vice president of Corporate Responsibility and Chief Diversity Officer.
“These moral, social and operational commitments represent that passion
and comprise the pillars of our corporate responsibility program. We
believe that the social and environmental value we create in our
communities also creates business value for Iron Mountain. The report
shows that; and while we have much to be proud of, we’ve only just
begun.”
Commitment in Action
Iron Mountain’s 2013 Corporate Responsibility Report also cites specific
examples of how Iron Mountain has acted on its commitments, such as:
- Sustainability – Iron Mountain hosted the installation of its
first solar-array system at its Windsor, Conn. facility. The panels
provide enough power to meet about 70 percent of the electricity needs
at the facility. This was a part of an overall commitment to reduce
the company’s environmental impact, including the investment of $5.7
million in lighting and HVAC retrofit programs across 165 North
American facilities, helping to reduce overall electricity consumption
by nine percent from 2012 levels.
- Employee Volunteerism – Employees hit a milestone of logging
more than 100,000 cumulative hours of community volunteerism through
the Moving Mountains volunteer program that gives employees two
paid vacation days for doing community service.
Iron Mountain’s Living Legacy initiative – a corporate giving
program created to fund non-profit cultural and historical preservation
projects and organizations – provided charitable grants, in-kind
services and information expertise for a pair of projects in 2013:
- CyArk – A non-profit organization dedicated to creating a free,
3-D online library of the world’s cultural heritage sites before they
are lost to natural disaster, human aggression or the passage of time.
Iron Mountain provide funding and secure storage and data backup
services that helped inaugurate the CyArk 500, an ambitious five-year
project to digitally preserve 500 world heritage sites.
- C.H. Booth Library, Newtown, Conn. – After the Sandy Hook
tragedy in 2012, the community of Newtown received more than 600,000
condolences. Iron Mountain provides pro-bono storage to keep these
items safe and lent financial grants to the community so they could
digitize these expressions of sympathy and make them available via an
online archive.
Iron Mountain’s Corporate Sustainability Report follows the Global
Reporting Initiative (GRI) Reporting Guidelines, a widely used standard
that provides a framework for reporting and tracking progress. To read
the report, visit the Taking CARE corporate responsibility portal
at http://takingcare.ironmountain.com.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a leading provider of storage
and information management services. The company’s real estate network
of over 67 million square feet across more than 1,000 facilities in 36
countries allows it to serve customers with speed and accuracy. And its
solutions for records
management, data
management, document
management, and secure
shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with
regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information for
business advantage. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects
billions of information assets, including business documents, backup
tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com
for more information.
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Source: Iron Mountain
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