Environment

As the worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions and services, we at Gilat Satellite Network Ltd. (“Gilat” or “we”) recognize the increasing urgency and importance of protecting the environment and fighting climate change. We therefore take actions that may contribute to the sustainability of the world’s resources and environment.

Gilat‘s environmental impact is related to our products, services and facilities, and we make efforts to act responsibly, considering our community and the world we live in, aiming that our activities will be as sustainable as possible. We strive to increase our knowledge in order to act beyond compliance and become a leader in the environmental sustainability field.

Our efforts to minimize the impact of our activities on the environment encompass the following activities in our Israel Headquarters’ offices:

Annual assessment 

• We conduct a yearly assessment on our activities in order to examine the main environmental impacts of our activities and products in terms of air pollution, soil/water contamination, hazards materials, awareness of our employees to environmental related issues, evacuation of hazards materials, environmental monitoring – radiation.
• Part of our assessment includes a mitigation strategy in topics where there is a place for improvements. We also expect our suppliers/subcontractors that build and/or otherwise manufacture our products to comply with relevant environmental obligations.

Energy efficiency and renewable energy use in data centers 

• We migrated major part of the physical servers we used for storing our ERP and other business applications in our IL data centers, to virtual servers’ platform. Such migration enabled us to reduce energy consumption, respectively.

Recycling of devices and appliances 

• Our IT equipment is dismantled, and reusable components kept aside for future use. All other parts which are not required and/or operative, are dispatched to suitable specialist recycling companies in IL who operate proper environmental policies.

Our Commitments and Goals

Gilat is committed to reducing its environmental impact throughout the lifecycle of our products, starting with our suppliers, through our product, operations and finally with our clients.  

Gilat has launched a green office practice in its Headquarters’ offices in Israel, which includes the following, all – as part of our commitment to sustainable future for our generation and the generations to come:

• We support the conservation of natural resources of our offices, such as materials, energy and water. As part of our sustainable approach, we aim to reduce consumption of water, electricity, paper and non-disposable utensils by using energy efficient systems and/or tools, and we seek for other sustainable alternatives.
• We support a circular economy and adopt waste reduction strategies, reuse and recycling. We have reduced the use of paper and plastic and switched to recycled or managed forest paper and reusable options wherever possible.
• We are committed to green office practices during the process of procurement of office supplies and facility management.
• We participate in an industry zone administration, in collaboration with the municipality, in order to raise awareness for environmental related issues in companies and/or industrial zones within the city’s area.
• We are committed to reducing our carbon footprint by reducing our energy consumption, and we plan to seek renewable energy sources in order to reduce GHG emissions in the long run.
• We are planning to move additional data centers to a cloud platform. By doing so, we will be able to reduce the use of hardware, and consequently reduce electronic waste.

Employee Engagement

Our efforts in our Israel Headquarters’ offices in order to increase awareness between our employees, encompass the following:

• We expect our employees to be engaged in our sustainability efforts, make careful use of resources, joining our recycling and other sustainability activities and inspire them to identify and raise opportunities for continuous improvement.
• We address environmental challenges in our operations through various responsible means and ask our employees to take part in using them.
• We are committed to a working environment which fits our general environmental commitments and therefore adopted Green Office Practices:
  • We provided recycled paper in our printers and encouraging employees to reduce printing in order to reduce waste.
  • We provided our employees with reusable personal bottles, mugs and cutlery in order to reduce consumption of disposable dishes. We encourage our employees to separate waste using recycling bins placed in corporate facilities.
  • We recycle electronic waste and tuners.
  • We inspire employee conscientiousness in support of the environment and encourage ideas and suggestions for improvements. From time to time, we invite employees to webinars covering in these topics. New employees go through training regarding our recycling activities

Suppliers Engagement

• We expect our suppliers to engage in environmental management practices and to comply with our environmental requirements and policies, as we issue from time to time.
• Based on our yearly environmental management plan, we audit certain suppliers on a periodic basis, check their certifications (if any) and their compliance with certain environmental related requirements.

Governance 

Our daily operations and decision-making processes take into consideration environmental care and sustainability. Our commitment involves, inter alia:

1. Closely monitoring our compliance with local and international regulatory requirements in all of our locations around the world.
2. As an integral part of our ISO 14001:2015certification, we inter alia monitor our environmental performance by defining a list of KPIs, and we implement a yearly environmental management plan, according to which we audit our suppliers on a periodic basis.
3. Gilat complies with the following applicable standards and regulatory requirements.

• We uphold the following standards:
  • ISO 14001:2015for maintaining an Environmental Management System;
  • ISO 45001:2018for maintaining Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems.
• We comply with applicable product-related environmental and social regulations such as:
  • The EU regulation RoHS on the restriction of use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment; and
  • Conflict minerals requirements according to Section 1502 of the Dodd- Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Future improvements

We will be transparent on our actions, and shall further set environmental sustainability goals and objectives, in order to continuously improve our environmental sustainability efforts and to reduce our footprint in the scope of our activities.

Scope

Our environmental policy applies to Gilat’s management, employees and suppliers.

This policy will be reviewed and approved by Gilat’s Chief Operating Officer on a bi-annual basis, and may updated from time to time, as needed.

For any questions regarding the policy or to communicate violations please contact Gilat’s QA Director:  Kobi@gilat.com.

Last updated: July, 2022.

Sustainability Report 

To view Gilat’s 2022 Headquarters Sustainability Report, click here.
To view Gilat’s 2021 Headquarters Sustainability Report, click here.