What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2019 Sustainability Report Celestica identified a range of material issues, such as occupational health and safety, anti-corruption, non-discrimination, human rights assessments, emissions. Among these, treating waste responsibly stands out as a key material issue for Celestica.

Stakeholder engagement in accordance with the GRI Standards

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) defines the Principle of Stakeholder Inclusiveness when identifying material issues (or a company’s most important impacts) as follows:

“The organization should identify its stakeholders, and explain how it has responded to their reasonable expectations.”

Stakeholders must be consulted in the process s of identifying a company’s most important impacts and their reasonable expectations and interests must be taken into account. This is an important cornerstone for CSR / sustainability reporting done responsibly.

Key stakeholder groups Celestica engages with:

To identify and prioritise material topics Celestica engaged with its stakeholders through the following channels:

Stakeholder Group	Method of engagement
Employees	·      Town hall meetings ·      Leadership meetings ·      Employee surveys ·      Sustainable Workspace programme ·      Open-Door Policy ·      Sustainability Report ·      Annual risk assessment ·      Internal communications
Customers	·      Teleconferences ·      Voluntary reporting ·      Surveys ·      Audits ·      Scorecards ·      Collaboration projects
Academia	·      Emails ·      Presentations ·      Events
Consortia	·      RBA meetings ·      RBA working groups ·      Seminars ·      Webinars
Government	·      Local government regulations ·      Site inspections ·      Site audits
Investors	·      Investor surveys ·      Securities filings (quarterly and annually) ·      Analysts’ calls ·      Sustainability Report
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)	·      Face-to-face meetings ·      Teleconferences ·      On-site tours ·      Collaboration projects
Suppliers	·      Emails ·      Teleconferences ·      Questionnaires ·      Facility tours

What actions were taken by Celestica to treat waste responsibly?

In its 2019 Sustainability Report Celestica reports that it took the following actions for treating waste responsibly:

• Enabling waste solutions
• Celestica helps its customers bring their innovations and product solutions to life by working behind the scenes at all stages of the product lifecycle – from design, prototype, manufacturing, and shipping to product recycling and refurbishing solutions. In its Industrial and Smart Energy businesses, Celestica is helping its customers bring smart trash receptacles to market. These highly complex, intelligent and connected systems collect trash bins only when full, which reduces energy costs and improves performance, sustainability, and waste reduction.

• Promoting circularity
• Celestica provides services that focus on designs with full lifecycle circularity, closed-loop systems, and after-market services. Offering products as a service is a tenet of the circular economy because it transforms the concept of ownership and encourages manufacturers to rethink how a product is used over its lifetime. Shifting mindsets from manufacturing products to delivering customer outcomes is growing the circular economy model. Celestica is working with customers to manage products through design, usage, maintenance, reuse, remanufacture, and recycling. This is being done through take-back programmes, keeping useful materials out of landfills or recycling streams, and screening and repairing products to be distributed back to customers. Within its Asset Recovery Services, Celestica has been able to create this circular model and properly recycle any residual materials.

• Organising the Global Waste Reduction Week
• 2019 marked Celestica’s fifth Global Waste Reduction Week, an event that engages employees in reducing waste. Employees at 14 sites participated in the event and, in total, more than 1,900 kg of material was diverted from landfill during the week:
  • Partnering to Reduce Waste (Toronto): Employees hosted an on-site showcase of sustainable partnerships, which included an employee donation drive for smartphones. The phones were refurbished and upgraded with accessible technologies and distributed to the visually impaired through a local charity.
  • Waste Reduction (Valencia): Site employees promoted waste reduction with educational pamphlets featuring best practices for plastic use in their canteens. Additionally, more than 120 kg of unused tables were disassembled and reused for work benches on the manufacturing line.
  • Electronics Recycling (Toronto, Mississauga, Newmarket, Penang, Song Shan Lake): Approximately 115 kg of obsolete electronic waste including batteries were diverted from landfill by being recycled ethically.
  • Book and Clothing Drives (Toronto, Mississauga, Monterrey, Newmarket, Tucson, Penang, Suzhou, Thailand, Valencia, Oradea): Around the world, Celestica employees held book, toy, and clothing drives to reduce overall waste and give back to their communities. More than 300 kg of goods including winter clothing, books, food, toys and more were collected and distributed to orphanages, shelters for the homeless, abused women, and refugees.
  • Greening Meals (Leixlip, Suzhou GBS, Shanghai): Each of these sites introduced reusable cutlery, plates or mugs in their employee cafeterias. It is estimated that these initiatives will reduce 5,400 kg of waste annually.

Which GRI Standards and corresponding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been addressed?

The GRI Standard addressed in this case is: Disclosure 306-2 Waste by type and disposal method

Disclosure 306-2 Waste by type and disposal method corresponds to:

• Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Targets: 3.9
• Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
• Targets: 6.3
• Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
• Targets: 12.4, 12.5

 

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References:

1) This case study is based on published information by Celestica, located at the link below. For the sake of readability, we did not use brackets or ellipses. However, we made sure that the extra or missing words did not change the report’s meaning. If you would like to quote these written sources from the original, please revert to the original on the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Disclosure Database at the link:

http://database.globalreporting.org/

2) https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/gri-standards-download-center/

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What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2017 Sustainability Report Celestica identified a range of material issues, such as

occupational health and safety, environment, health and safety compliance, greenhouse gas emissions, customer privacy and data security. Among these, promoting compliance and ethics stands out as a key material issue for Celestica.

Stakeholder engagement in accordance with the GRI Standards

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) defines the Principle of Stakeholder Inclusiveness when identifying material issues (or a company’s most important impacts) as follows:

“The organization should identify its stakeholders, and explain how it has responded to their reasonable expectations.”

Stakeholders must be consulted in the process s of identifying a company’s most important impacts and their reasonable expectations and interests must be taken into account. This is an important cornerstone for CSR / sustainability reporting done responsibly.

Key stakeholder groups Celestica engages with:

Stakeholder Group	Method of engagement
Employees	·      Town hall meetings ·      Leadership meetings ·      Employee surveys ·      Sustainable Workspace programme ·      Open-Door Policy ·      Sustainability Report ·      Annual risk assessment ·      Internal communications
Customers	·      Teleconferences ·      Voluntary reporting ·      Surveys ·      Audits ·      Scorecards ·      Collaboration projects
Academia	·      Working group meetings ·      Surveys ·      Research projects
Consortia	·      RBA meetings ·      RBA working groups ·      RBA leadership ·      Seminars ·      Webinars
Government	·      Local government regulations ·      Site inspections ·      Site audits
Investors	·      Investor surveys
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)	·      Face-to-face meetings ·      Teleconferences ·      On-site tours ·      Collaboration projects
Suppliers	·      Emails ·      Teleconferences ·      Questionnaires ·      Facility tours

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritise material topics Celestica held discussions with both internal and external stakeholders. 

What actions were taken by Celestica to promote compliance and ethics?

In its 2017 Sustainability Report Celestica reports that it took the following actions for promoting compliance and ethics:

• Implementing an ethics programme
• Celestica’s established ethics programme is open to all employees, customers, suppliers, and anyone else interacting with Celestica employees. If illegal or unethical behaviour is witnessed, employees have a responsibility to report it immediately. Additionally, Celestica supports an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment and employees are accountable for making sure Celestica’s culture is free from discrimination and harassment based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, citizenship and/or origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or other factors.

• Helping employees raise ethics concerns
• Celestica seeks to make sure employees are aware of how they can voice their concerns on ethical matters and communicates various options in its Business Conduct Governance (BCG) Policy, and through the distribution of an ethics wallet card. In addition, there are Ethics Awareness Centres throughout Celestica’s sites that contain additional compliance and ethics information. Celestica encourages employees who have concerns or questions on legal or ethical matters to speak with their manager, a member of management or human resources. Employees can also email compliance@celestica.com should they have any questions or concerns on compliance or ethics issues and, if none of these options is preferred, they can report concerns to Celestica’s Ethics Hotline, by phone or through the web-based reporting tool. Maintained by a third-party vendor, Celestica’s Ethics Hotline is a key part of its ethics programme as a grievance mechanism available to all employees. The hotline programme allows employees to file an anonymous or identified report regarding misconduct in the workplace. Employees are assured that their reports are managed by an independent function, and investigated to the fullest extent. This programme, managed by the Compliance department, allows Celestica to maintain a high standard of ethics within the workplace. Celestica also makes sure that there is no reprisal or retaliation for reporting actual or suspected violations of the law, of the BCG Policy or other policies, or for cooperating in an investigation of reported violations. Celestica takes all reports of possible misconduct seriously and investigates the matter confidentially, making a determination whether the BCG or the law has been violated and taking appropriate corrective action.

Which GRI Standards and corresponding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been addressed?

The GRI Standard addressed in this case is: Disclosure 406-1 Incidents of discrimination and corrective actions taken

 

Disclosure 406-1 Incidents of discrimination and corrective actions taken corresponds to:

• Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• Business theme: Non-discrimination
• Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
• Business theme: Non-discrimination
• Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
• Business theme: Non-discrimination

 

78% of the world’s 250 largest companies report in accordance with the GRI Standards

SustainCase was primarily created to demonstrate, through case studies, the importance of dealing with a company’s most important impacts in a structured way, with use of the GRI Standards. To show how today’s best-run companies are achieving economic, social and environmental success – and how you can too.

Research by well-recognised institutions is clearly proving that responsible companies can look to the future with optimism.

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• Identify your most important impacts on the Environment, Economy and People
• Formulate in group exercises your plan for action. Begin taking solid, focused, all-round sustainability action ASAP. 
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References:

1) This case study is based on published information by Celestica, located at the link below. For the sake of readability, we did not use brackets or ellipses. However, we made sure that the extra or missing words did not change the report’s meaning. If you would like to quote these written sources from the original, please revert to the original on the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Disclosure Database at the link:

http://database.globalreporting.org/

2) https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/gri-standards-download-center/

Note to Celestica: With each case study we send out an email requesting a comment on this case study. If you have not received such an email please contact us.

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2016 Sustainability Report Celestica identified a range of material issues, such as anti-corruption, occupational health & safety, diversity & equal opportunity, forced or compulsory labour. Among these, promoting sustainability in the electronics supply chain stands out as a key material issue for Celestica.

Stakeholder engagement in accordance with the GRI Standards

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) defines the Principle of Stakeholder Inclusiveness when identifying material issues (or a company’s most important impacts) as follows:

“The organization should identify its stakeholders, and explain how it has responded to their reasonable expectations.”

Stakeholders must be consulted in the process s of identifying a company’s most important impacts and their reasonable expectations and interests must be taken into account. This is an important cornerstone for CSR / sustainability reporting done responsibly.

Key stakeholder groups Celestica engages with:

To identify and prioritise material topics Celestica engages with its stakeholders through the following channels:

Stakeholder Group	Method of engagement
Employees	·         Town hall meetings ·         Leadership meetings ·         Employee surveys ·         Sustainable Workspace program ·         Open-Door Policy ·         Sustainability Report ·         Annual risk assessment ·         Embedding Sustainability Working Group (ESWG) research project ·         Internal communications
Customers	·         Teleconferences ·         Voluntary reporting ·         Surveys ·         Audits ·         Scorecards ·         Collaboration projects
Academia	·         Working group meetings ·         Surveys ·         Research projects
Consortia	·         EICC meetings ·         EICC working groups ·         EICC leadership ·         Seminars ·         Webinars
Government	·         Local government regulations ·         Site inspections ·         Site audits
Investors	·         Investor surveys
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)	·         Face-to-face meetings ·         Teleconferences ·         On-site tours ·         Collaboration projects
Suppliers	·         Emails ·         Teleconferences ·         Questionnaires ·         Facility tours

What actions were taken by Celestica to promote sustainability in the electronics supply chain?

In its 2016 Sustainability Report Celestica reports that it took the following actions for promoting sustainability in the electronics supply chain:

• Ensuring suppliers comply with the EICC Code of Conduct
• Celestica informs its suppliers about the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) Code of Conduct and uses approved EICC risk assessment methods and tools to monitor major suppliers’ management systems with regard to the EICC Code’s requirements. Conforming to the EICC’s mandate to better the electronics supply chain, Celestica makes sure it partners with socially responsible suppliers.

• Requiring suppliers to complete Self-Assessment Questionnaires
• Celestica requires suppliers on its Major Supplier List (MSL) to complete and submit Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs), identifying risks within their operations. SAQs are completed by Celestica’s major suppliers annually and ask more than 100 questions regarding key elements of labour, ethics, the environment, and health and safety. The questionnaires also cover suppliers’ management systems that are used to identify, manage and monitor each of these elements.

• Implementing a Supplier Responsibility Management System
• Celestica manages all its suppliers through its Supplier Responsibility Management System. By means of this system Celestica assesses each supplier’s level of risk. In addition, in 2014 Celestica updated these activities, with the Vendor Verification Visit. Every supplier on Celestica’s Major Supplier List is expected to complete an EICC Self-Assessment Questionnaire, support a Verification Visit and/or provide a VAP (Validated Audit Process) report if one is available. Audit findings are tracked through a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) and can result in removal from Celestica’s Preferred Supplier List (PSL) if appropriate corrective actions are not taken.

Which GRI Standards and corresponding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been addressed?

The GRI Standards addressed in this case are:

1) Disclosure 308-1 New suppliers that were screened using environmental criteria

2) Disclosure 308-2 Negative environmental impacts in the supply chain and actions taken

3) Disclosure 412-1 Operations that have been subject to human rights reviews or impact assessments

4) Disclosure 412-3 Significant investment agreements and contracts that include human rights clauses or that underwent human rights screening

Disclosure 308-1 New suppliers that were screened using environmental criteria does not correspond to any SDG.

Disclosure 308-2 Negative environmental impacts in the supply chain and actions taken does not correspond to any SDG.

Disclosure 412-1 Operations that have been subject to human rights reviews or impact assessments does not correspond to any SDG.

Disclosure 412-3 Significant investment agreements and contracts that include human rights clauses or that underwent human rights screening does not correspond to any SDG.

 

78% of the world’s 250 largest companies report in accordance with the GRI Standards

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References:

1) This case study is based on published information by Celestica, located at the link below. For the sake of readability, we did not use brackets or ellipses. However, we made sure that the extra or missing words did not change the report’s meaning. If you would like to quote these written sources from the original, please revert to the original on the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Disclosure Database at the link:

http://database.globalreporting.org/

2) http://www.fbrh.co.uk/en/global-reporting-initiative-gri-g4-guidelines-download-page

3) https://g4.globalreporting.org/Pages/default.aspx

4) https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/gri-standards-download-center/

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