Finding ways to improve human, animal and environmental health has always been important to us. But the way we do it matters too – we want to live by these values ourselves. So we made a commitment and put the work in to prove it. But the journey doesn't end here - we are continuously assessing and improving our impact.
We have been B Corp certified since 2022, joining a global community of like-minded businesses that deeply care about people, community and the environment, not just profit.
Our B Corp certification is reassessed every three years, so our certification is not a destination, but an ongoing journey. We are currently engaged in the recertification process with a focus of achiving this by March 2025. We are always looking for ways to improve and welcome both internal and external feedback.
Based on the B Impact assessment, Epi-interactive earned an overall score of 80.2.
The median score for ordinary businesses who complete the assessment is currently 50.9.
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
Workers evaluates a company's contributions to its employees' financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement/satisfaction.
Community evaluates a company's engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management.
Environment evaluates a company's overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company's operations and, when applicable, its supply chain and distribution channels.
Customers evaluates a company's stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels.
We make every effort to reduce our carbon emissions where possible and strive to one day be carbon neutral. However, we currently incur emissions that are mostly unavoidable. We therefore choose to offset our emissions by 120% and be climate positive.
We have been quality reviewed and assessed by EKOS since 2020.
We track our electricity usage each month and look for explanations for any significant variations from expectation. We attempt to minimise usage and increase energy efficiency where possible and use New Zealand's only carbon neutral electricity provider.
We reduce where we can but when not possible we recycle plastics with numbers 1, 2 and 5, soft plastics, glass and e-waste. We also offer composting in the office.