WE ARE A RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS
Policy brief & purpose
Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) company policy refers to our responsibility toward our environment. Our company’s existence is not lonely. It’s part of a bigger system of people, values, other organizations and nature. The social responsibility of a business is to give back to the world just as it gives to us.
What is corporate social responsibility?
Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) company policy outlines our efforts to give back to the world as it gives to us.
Scope
This policy applies to our company and its subsidiaries. It may also refer to suppliers and partners.
Policy elements
We want to be a responsible business that meets the highest standards of ethics and professionalism.
Our company’s social responsibility falls under two categories: compliance and proactiveness. Compliance refers to our company’s commitment to legality and willingness to observe community values. Proactiveness is every initiative to promote human rights, help communities and protect our natural environment.
Compliance
Legality
Our company will:
Respect the law
Honor its internal policies
Ensure that all its business operations are legitimate
Keep every partnership and collaboration open and transparent
Business ethics
We’ll always conduct business with integrity and respect to human rights. We’ll promote:
Safety and fair dealing
Respect toward the consumer
Anti-bribery and anti-corruption practices
Examples of Corporate Social Responsibility
Protecting the environment
Our company recognizes the need to protect the natural environment. Keeping our environment clean and unpolluted is a benefit to all. We’ll always follow best practices when disposing garbage and using chemical substances. Stewardship will also play an important role.
Protecting people
We will ensure that we:
Don’t risk the health and safety of our employees and community.
Avoid harming the lives of local and indigenous people.
Support diversity and inclusion.
Human rights
Our company is dedicated to protecting human rights. We are a committed equal opportunity employer and will abide by all fair labor practices. We’ll ensure that our activities do not directly or indirectly violate human rights in any country (e.g. forced labor).
Proactiveness
Preserving the environment
Apart from legal obligations, our company will proactively protect the environment. Examples of relevant activities include:
Recycling
Conserving energy
Organizing reforestation excursions
Using environmentally-friendly technologies
Learning
We will actively invest in R&D. We will be open to suggestions and listen carefully to ideas. Our company will try to continuously improve the way it operates.
BSCI Certification
The BSCI is the European social monitoring system for ethical sourcing initiated by the Brussels-based Foreign Trade Association (FTA). BSCI is a business-driven initiative for companies committed to improving working conditions in the global supply chain. BSCI unites hundreds of companies around one common Code of Conduct and supports them in their efforts to build an ethical supply chain by providing them with a step-by-step development- oriented system, applicable to all sectors and all sourcing countries.
BSCI Code of Conduct is built on the most important International Conventions protecting workers' rights, notably the ILO Conventions and recommendations. All BSCI participants commit to implement the Code in their supply chains. BSCI supports companies by providing them with a range of interlinked activities and tools to achieve a socially compliant supply chain.
The 11 principles of the Code of Conduct that BSCI participants commit to implement in their supply chains are:
The rights to Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining
No Discrimination
Fair Remuneration
Decent Working Hours
Occupational Health and Safety
No Child Labour
Protection of Young Workers
No Precarious Employment
No Bonded Labour
Protection of the Environment
Ethical Business Behaviour