About Sustainable Development and Safety Group (HSE)

The increasing global population growth and resource scarcity on the one hand, and the long-term and cumulative adverse effects of human activities on the planet on the other, have led to the need for sustainable development in today's world, providing a scientific framework for simultaneously managing limited resources, reducing environmental impacts and aspects, and increasing socio-economic dynamics, and ensuring the continued performance of infrastructure in the face of global challenges.

Its aim is to achieve harmony between environmental sustainability, economic sustainability, and socio-political sustainability.

The Sustainable Development Goals, or Global Goals, are a set of 17 interconnected global goals designed to provide a blueprint for achieving a better and more sustainable future for all. The Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a global call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.

Sustainable development always encourages us to preserve and enhance our resources by gradually changing the methods of development and use of technologies. Also, paying attention to the principle of sustainable development, in addition to leading to resilience and reducing the negative consequences of human activities, will also ensure increased system productivity and reduced life cycle costs on national and international scales.

Like many leading global companies, Monenco Group has gone beyond focusing solely on environmental, economic and social dimensions separately, and has made it its main focus as the core of both management and the engineering in all stages of the project, from feasibility studies and engineering design to monitoring, performance evaluation and life cycle optimization.

In this approach, sustainability, safety and health are three pillars intertwined; because any technical solution is only considered sustainable when it is reliable in terms of safety, employees’ health, operational risk management, reducing environmental consequences, and increasing socio-economic opportunities.

Adopting this approach has led the Company to be a leader on a national scale by improving engineering standards, reducing risks and adverse effects, and strengthening project resilience, being influential on an international level by participating in projects that require compliance with strict global standards, and always strive to improving themselves in this field.

As a result, sustainable development for Monenco Group is not a slogan, rather an organizational philosophy; an opportunity that ensures quality, compliance, safety, and trust in all of the company's management, engineering, and other consulting services, and is the basis for the trust of stakeholders and the professional identity of Monenco Group in the national and global arenas.

In line with Monenco Group's macro strategies and expanding the scope of its activities, one of the most important goals in recent years, has been to provide services related to sustainable development to various stakeholders, including governmental clients, industrial owners and manufacturers. This has been achieved, thanks to the deep knowledge and long-term experience of the company's specialists and special attention to social responsibility at the management level of the organization.

Within this framework, the specialized team of sustainable development and health & safety (HSE) of Monenco Group by establishing life cycle assessment systems, dynamic management of safety and environmental risks and monitoring the social and economic impacts of projects, has played a pivotal and vital role in achieving this goal and helping clients to make their technical decisions in line with the principles of social responsibility.

 

Capabilities of the specialized team for sustainable development and safety (HSE) are:

  • Sustainability consulting and auditing

  • Safety studies and risk assessment of industrial project design

  • Carbon management and circular economy

  • Life cycle assessment of projects and equipment

  • Environmental management of projects

  • Trainings in the field of sustainable development and HSE

Key activities and achievements of sustainable development and safety (HSE) group:

In order to realize organizational values ​​and mission related to creating shared value for society and stakeholders, in line with the organization's commitment to the UN ESG principles of environmental, social and corporate governance, as well as with the group's grand strategy in the field of sustainable development and resource efficiency, leaders of Monenco Group have implemented extensive measures to encourage and involve key stakeholders in activities related to sustainable development.

Sustainable development and safety

• Sustainable governance and knowledge-base institutionalization;

-      Formation of sustainability committee and think-tank for policy-making, macro guidance, and integration of sustainability concepts with various levels of organizational decision-making

• Transparent reporting system in line with global sustainability standards;

-      Compilation and publication of Monenco Group sustainability and social responsibility reports with the aim of functional transparency and accountability to all stakeholders, based on international standards and commitment to environmental, social, and corporate governance

• Preparation of a strategic roadmap and responsible-based business model;

-      Design of a comprehensive strategic document and a dedicated roadmap in the areas of social responsibility and circular economy to synchronize and synergize the organization's values ​​with sustainable development goals

• Operationalization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals;

-      Localization and establishment of a comprehensive monitoring system in the form of appropriate worksheets for engineering and operational divisions, in order to align projects with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

• Development of specialized authority board and promotion of a culture of sustainability;

-      Compilation and presentation of specialized reports with approach to raising public awareness and explaining the organization's values ​​to customers, clients and business partners

-      Holding training courses in the areas of sustainable development and health, safety and environment (HSE) with the aim of improving organizational maturity at all levels

-      Publishing visual content including infographics, announcements and sustainability educational content on the organization's internal portal in order to implement sustainability concepts in different layers of the organizational structure

-      Establishing and implementing the 5S system as a basic infrastructure to increase productivity, optimize operational processes and improve workplace order and standards

Circular economy

• Establishing waste management system;

-      Implementing a maximum principled waste separation model from the source, with the aim of optimizing recycling processes and reducing environmental damage

-      Facilitating a reverse supply chain with strategic interaction with Tehran Municipality Waste Management in order to return recycled materials to the production cycle, increase resource efficiency and reduce landfill rates

• Increasing energy efficiency and resource management;

-      Renovating lighting systems by replacing the old inefficient lighting systems with ultra-low-energy LED technologies to optimize energy consumption patterns

-      Converting energy efficiency into social value by transferring replaced lighting systems to Kahrizak Charity Org. in line with the decarbonization strategy and supporting the welfare infrastructure of the community

Social responsibility

• Responsible governance and reporting;

-      Systematic compilation of Monenco's social responsibility report based on the Carroll comprehensive model

• Social investment and empowerment of low-income groups;

-      Establishing and managing Monenco Charity

-      Deepening the link between industry and academia by granting scholarships to gifted students and prodigies of Sharif University of Technology

-      Supporting the Noor Cancer Patients Charity Association

-      Participating in improving physical health and quality of life by providing rehabilitation equipment for the disabled

• Promoting a culture of responsibility and awareness;

-      Facilitating the access to knowledge, by holding Monenco’s Book Fair

-      Holding cultural events such as art exhibitions with the approach of allocating the proceeds and outcomes to charity

• Protecting the environment and community health;

-      Commitment to environmental sustainability by institutionalizing smart energy management and optimization solutions in all company operational processes

-      Implementing green and humanitarian campaigns by continuously holding blood donation and tree planting campaigns as part of the employee volunteer program in order to strengthen public health and protect the environment

Safety Engineering

-      Conducting HAZID studies in order to initially identify hazards, assess risks and potential risk scenarios in the design and operation stages

-      Conducting HAZOP studies in order to identify process deviations and operation problems

-      Risk management using the Bowtie method with the aim of identifying, assessing and analyzing risks and their consequences in industrial environments and projects, and adopting control measures, identifying preventive barriers and compensatory measures accordingly.

-      Quantitative risk assessment in order to identify, prioritize and evaluate risk scenarios in process industries and take proper control measures

Example projects

  • Life cycle assessment of Monecco Group
  • Carbon Footprint and Ecological Footprint Calculation of Makran Steam Power Plant Design Phase
  • Technical Consulting Services in Safety for MAPNA Group Factories
  • Safety Studies of several plants:
  • 40 MW Medium Scale Power Plant, Khatoon Abad
  • Combined Cycle Power Plant, Junob2
  • Combined Cycle Power Plant, Neka
  • Gas Power Plant, Khatoon Abad
    • 40 MW Medium Scale Power Plant, Sungun
    • 40 MW Medium Scale Power Plant, Sarcheshmeh
    • 30 MW Power Plant, Pardis
    • Medium Scale Power Plant, Behshahr
    • Gas Power Plant, Sanabad
    • 40 MW Medium Scale Power Plant, Bidboland
    • 40 MW Small Scale Gas Power Plant, Jask
    • Combined Cycle Power Plant, Gol-Gohar Sirjan
    • Combined Cycle Power Plant, Khorramabad