. AGSA achieved a high level of integrating the management of sustainability issues in its core business. Many of the issues in sustainability performance have been integrated in five main objectives of AGSA in which it has performed excellently; . AGSA responds to the environment positively, as it encourages the recycling of paper and subscription to electronic news papers to support the going green initiatives. AGSA has been awarded the Miercom Green certification for energy consumption due to the network equipment which AGSA has standardised; . AGSA reduced the number of business kilometres travelled per employee by initiating technological solutions as follows: o Video conferencing systems were used for a total of 454 meetings during the year which removed the need for the participants to travel and achieved a saving of approximately R1, 3 million; o Staff has accessed to remote AGSA systems from their laptop computers and this reduces the requirement to travel to update information. . AGSA has implemented the water saving initiatives. Health and safety manuals and procedures are being developed.