The Keyholding Company (TKC), the security services company, has become B Corp Certified. It means the guarding firm joins around 9,000 businesses that have met standards of environmental and social impact.
B Corp is a global standard for ethical business practice as set up by B Lab, a non-profit body that is working towards “business as a force for good”. Being B Corp Certified represents a commitment to operating with transparency and accountability, in which businesses must balance profit with purpose. TKC says this certification affirms its commitment to ethical practices, sustainability, and driving positive impact within the security industry. To achieve certification, TKC underwent B Lab’s B Impact Assessment, which evaluates performance across five areas: Governance, Environment, Workers, Community and Customers.
TKC says it saw achieving B Corp Certification as the ideal framework to unite the ESG (environmental-social-governance) initiatives they had in place: such as introducing an electric vehicle fleet within their London operations, doing transparent emissions reporting, fostering ED&I (equality-diversity-inclusion) geared towards personal and professional development (like the My TKC Journey initiative), and championing local businesses via their service partner network.
Charlie Gordon Lennox, TKC’s CEO says: “Our B Corp Certification highlights that the security industry can and should take ethics, sustainability, and community impact seriously. There is an increasing call for responsible practices. We want to show that it is possible to uphold high ethical standards while maintaining operational excellence.”
Maintaining the certification requires companies to re-certify every three years and publish annual Impact Reports, detailing how they are tracking against various assessment criteria and sustainability objectives.
About the company
London-based TKC is a member of the ACS Pacesetters, a membership group of the highest-scoring Security Industry Authority-approved contractors. See more on the company’s blog.
Visit www.keyholding.com.
