The main way in which we exercise our corporate social responsibility is through the services we deliver. We actively promote measures to ensure that business activities are carried out so as not to breach internationally recognised principles and guidelines relating to human and employee rights, the environment, climate, nature and anti-corruption. Our general ethical principle states that all our behaviour shall withstand public scrutiny.
We assess the risk of breaches of fundamental human rights and decent working conditions in our own business and in our partners’ businesses as part of our annual strategic risk-management process. The company reports annually on human rights in our commitment to the UN Global Compact. This forms the basis for due diligence assessments.
In accordance with defined criteria, our business partners are required to sign a Declaration of Ethics that sets out standards for human rights and working conditions. In countries with a high risk of corruption and breaches of human and employee rights, due diligence assessments are carried out as part of background checks on suppliers.