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]]> Founded in 1999, D&G is a leading manufacturer and service provider of medium and large asphalt mixing plants in China, with its headquarters located in Hong Kong. D&G is committed to continuously improving its sustainable procurement mechanism, not least through comprehensive supplier environmental and social assessments.

This case study is based on the 2020 Sustainability Report by D&G, prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards, that can be found at this link. Through all case studies we aim to demonstrate what CSR/ ESG/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important impacts on the environment, economy and society, and b) measuring, managing and changing.

Abstract

D&G seeks to establish a stable and sustainable supply chain  Tweet This! through stringent control systems and policies and by setting new objectives for the coming years, to scale up its contributions to sustainable procurement. In order to promote sustainable procurement D&G took action to:

  • adopt the sustainable procurement charter
  • assess suppliers

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2020 Sustainability Report D&G identified a range of material issues, such as economic performance, occupational health and safety, air quality control, hazardous waste management. Among these, promoting sustainable procurement stands out as a key material issue for D&G.

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 reporting organization shall identify its stakeholders, and explain how it has responded to their reasonable expectations and interests.”

Stakeholders must be consulted in the process 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 D&G engages with:

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Employees ·      Quality / environmental / occupational health and safety management system trainings

·      Quality / environmental / occupational health and safety management system three aspects audit

·      Employee meeting / satisfaction questionnaire

·      On-the-job training and physical examination
Customers ·      Satisfaction questionnaire

·      Factory inspection

·      Site visit
Suppliers ·      Study visit

·      Product technical standards exchange forum

·      Supplier capability survey

·      Supplier assessment
Education and research partners ·      Daily communication exchange (Associations/research centres)

·      The 11th China Asphalt Mixing Plant Industry Summit (Construction Machinery Association Road Machine Chapter)

·      Teaching and technical sharing and exchange forum (Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport)
Government and other public bodies ·      Inspection

·      Factory exchange interviews
Business partners

 

 ·      Seminars

·      Training sessions

·      Meetings and discussion
Social media ·      Collaboration and cooperation

·      Advertising and promotion

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritise material topics D&G engaged with its stakeholders through questionnaire surveys, collecting opinions from a total of 70 external stakeholders.

What actions were taken by D&G to promote sustainable procurement?

In its 2020 Sustainability Report D&G reports that it took the following actions for promoting sustainable procurement:

  • Adopting the sustainable procurement charter
  • During the procurement process, apart from basic requirements such as quality, price and delivering capacity of the supplier’s products, D&G considers environmental, occupational health and safety (“EHS”) performance and the financial status of the suppliers. D&G has adopted the sustainable procurement charter, where choosing suppliers must consider different factors such as environmental, social and ethical aspects. Thus, suppliers are required to submit relevant documents for verification. In terms of basic requirements, the Material Supplies Department will consider the procurement standard and production requirement, and compare several factors, including materials quality, price, delivery date, packaging, after-sale service and technological support. The Material Supplies Department selects several qualified suppliers for comparison. In terms of EHS, suppliers have to prove their comprehensive EHS management systems through submission of relevant qualifications and test reports. This ensures they can control sources of pollution and hazards on-site effectively. Additionally, suppliers have to indicate clearly that there is no material environmental pollution or fatality case. The relevant departments could conduct an on-site inspection, if necessary.
  • Assessing suppliers
  • D&G has stepped forward to tighten EHS requirements for supplier assessments. Suppliers with higher scores are regarded as the major suppliers and are offered larger orders, whereas other suppliers are classified as low-priority and alternative. In order to ensure the sound performance of major suppliers and give opportunities to the low-priority and alternative ones to improve, D&G reviews the supplier list by conducting a yearly assessment on all suppliers. If a supplier fails the yearly assessment, they have to reply and provide an improvement plan within two working days after the release of the assessment results, otherwise they will be treated as acquiesced. The supplier with improvements made will then be re-assessed. To ensure the fairness of the review mechanism, the unqualified suppliers will be classified as alternative suppliers, yet they can still undergo annual reviews. Apart from the Material Supplies Department, the QM (quality management) Department is also responsible for the quality control of the procured materials. If there is a major quality issue when conducting inspection, measurement, observation and process verification, the QM Department shall issue a “non-conformity report”, and hands over the case to the Procurement Department for product return. If the “non-conformity report” is issued twice while the quality is not improved or maintained below standard, the Material Supplies Department shall conduct an emergency assessment, and deal with the supplier and keep relevant records in accordance with the assessment results. D&G will terminate the cooperation with directly disqualified suppliers for at least two years.

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

The GRI Standard addressed in this case is: Disclosure 414-1 New suppliers that were screened using social criteria

Disclosure 414-1 New suppliers that were screened using social criteria corresponds to:

 

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.

7 GRI sustainability disclosures get you started

Any size business can start taking sustainability action

GRI, ISEP, CPD Certified Sustainability courses (2-5 days): Live Online or Classroom  (venue: London School of Economics)

  • Exclusive FBRH template to begin reporting from day one
  • 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. 
  • Benchmarking methodology to set you on a path of continuous improvement

See upcoming training dates.
 

References:

This case study is based on published information by D&G, 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 following link:

 http://media-dgtechnology.todayir.com/2021063019160223049824647_en.pdf

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]]> Case study: How D&G promotes employee development https://sustaincase.com/case-study-how-dg-promotes-employee-development/ Wed, 18 Aug 2021 06:06:30 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=12824 D&G is a leading manufacturer and service provider of medium and large asphalt mixing plants in China, focusing on innovation and environmentally friendly production. In order to fully unleash the potential of employees and promote their growth with the company, This case study is based on the 2019 Sustainability Report by D&G published on the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Disclosure Database that can be found at this link. Through all case studies we aim to demonstrate what CSR/ ESG/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important impacts on the environment, economy and society, and […]

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]]> D&G is a leading manufacturer and service provider of medium and large asphalt mixing plants in China, focusing on innovation and environmentally friendly production. In order to fully unleash the potential of employees and promote their growth with the company, D&G is committed to providing employees with appropriate training and development plans.  Tweet This!

This case study is based on the 2019 Sustainability Report by D&G published on the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Disclosure Database that can be found at this link. Through all case studies we aim to demonstrate what CSR/ ESG/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important impacts on the environment, economy and society, and b) measuring, managing and changing.

Abstract

D&G encourages its employees to regularly enrich their knowledge and skills, and to keep abreast of changes in the industry. This is conducive to both personal professional development and D&G’s operational efficiency. In order to promote employee development D&G took action to:

  • provide training programmes
  • formulate the “Employee Training Management Guidebook”

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2019 Sustainability Report D&G identified a range of material issues, such as economic performance, quality assurance, occupational health and safety, air emissions control, compliance, hazardous waste management. Among these, promoting employee development stands out as a key material issue for D&G.

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 reporting organization shall identify its stakeholders, and explain how it has responded to their reasonable expectations and interests.”

Stakeholders must be consulted in the process 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 D&G engages with: 

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Employees ·      Quality / environmental / occupational health and safety management system training

·      Quality / environmental / occupational health and safety management system three-aspect audit

·      Employee meeting / satisfaction questionnaire

·      On-the-job training and physical examination
Customers ·      Satisfaction questionnaire

·      Factory inspection

·      Site visit
Suppliers ·      Study visit

·      Product technical standards exchange forum

·      Supplier capability survey

·      Supplier assessment
Education and research partners ·      The 10th China Asphalt Mixing Plant Industry Summit

·      Teaching and technical sharing and exchange forum
Government and other public bodies ·      Inspection

·      Factory exchange interview
Business partners

 

 ·      Seminar

·      Training session

·      Meeting and discussion
Social media ·      Collaboration and cooperation

·      Advertising and promotion

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritise material topics D&G engaged with a total of 251 stakeholders through questionnaires, asking participants to rate anonymously various economic, environmental and social issues.

What actions were taken by D&G to promote employee development?

In its 2019 Sustainability Report D&G reports that it took the following actions for promoting employee development:

  • Providing training programmes
  • Based on the training needs of employees and their positions, D&G provides suitable, extensive and diverse training programmes:
    • Value training: Convey the company’s strategy, behavioural norms, occupational ethics and values, and increase employees’ working motivation
    • Professional knowledge training: Enhance professional knowledge and skills training related to employees’ positions
    • Job skills training: Provide standardised training corresponding to job duties and improve employees’ skills in process and operation
    • Management training: Provide management knowledge and idea training for the management and employees with management potential, enabling them to understand the company’s development goals and business strategies
  • Formulating the “Employee Training Management Guidebook”
  • D&G has formulated the “Employee Training Management Guidebook”, which designates the HR Department to carry out an annual survey on employees’ training needs, and evaluates the training plans provided by all departments to construct a training strategy for the upcoming year. The HR Department is also responsible for monitoring, organising and implementing the training plans, in an effort to consistently improve the overall professional level of the employees. In order to ensure the effectiveness of the training, the HR Department distributes questionnaires to participating employees after each training to collect their feedbacks, and takes it as a reference for improvement of future training plans. The HR Department also assesses the employees’ training outcomes and effectiveness through written test or live demonstration. D&G’s training plan is mainly classified into four categories, namely occupational health and safety, management and operation, professional knowledge and environmental protection. By providing diversified and high-quality training opportunities, D&G pledges to continuously assist employees to develop their strengths and achieve their work ambitions, which drives steady business development and delivers a corporate culture of sustainability.

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

The GRI Standard addressed in this case is: Disclosure 404-1 Average hours of training per year per employee

Disclosure 404-1 Average hours of training per year per employee corresponds to:

 

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.

7 GRI sustainability disclosures get you started

Any size business can start taking sustainability action

GRI, ISEP, CPD Certified Sustainability courses (2-5 days): Live Online or Classroom  (venue: London School of Economics)

  • Exclusive FBRH template to begin reporting from day one
  • 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. 
  • Benchmarking methodology to set you on a path of continuous improvement

See upcoming training dates.
References:

1) This case study is based on published information by D&G, 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 D&G: 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.

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]]> Case study: How D&G promotes employee health and safety https://sustaincase.com/case-study-how-dg-promotes-employee-health-and-safety/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:04:46 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=11520 Founded in 1999, D&G is a leading manufacturer and service provider of medium and large asphalt mixing plants in China, focusing on innovation and environmentally friendly production in order to provide customers with efficient, reliable, safe and environmentally friendly conventional hot-mix asphalt mixing plants and hot-mix asphalt mixing recycling plants. This case study is based on the 2019 Sustainability Report by D&G published on the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Disclosure Database that can be found at this link. Through all case studies we aim to demonstrate what CSR/ ESG/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s […]

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]]> Founded in 1999, D&G is a leading manufacturer and service provider of medium and large asphalt mixing plants in China, focusing on innovation and environmentally friendly production in order to provide customers with efficient, reliable, safe and environmentally friendly conventional hot-mix asphalt mixing plants and hot-mix asphalt mixing recycling plants. D&G endeavours to provide a healthy and safe working environment for all employees, and has embedded this commitment into its daily operation.  Tweet This!

This case study is based on the 2019 Sustainability Report by D&G published on the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Disclosure Database that can be found at this link. Through all case studies we aim to demonstrate what CSR/ ESG/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important impacts on the environment, economy and society, and b) measuring, managing and changing.

Abstract

Adhering to a people-oriented operation approach, D&G has established various safety policies and measures, so as to enhance safety awareness in the workplace. In order to promote employee health and safety D&G took action to:

  • establish the Safety Leading Group
  • provide personal protective equipment and develop a safety culture
  • carry out employee health checks

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2019 Sustainability Report D&G identified a range of material issues, such as economic performance, quality assurance, air emissions control, compliance, hazardous waste management. Among these, promoting employee health and safety stands out as a key material issue for D&G.

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 reporting organization shall identify its stakeholders, and explain how it has responded to their reasonable expectations and interests.”

Stakeholders must be consulted in the process 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 D&G engages with:

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Employees ·      Quality / environmental / occupational health and safety management system training

·      Quality / environmental / occupational health and safety management system three-aspect audit

·      Employee meeting / satisfaction questionnaire

·      On-the-job training and physical examination
Customers ·      Satisfaction questionnaire

·      Factory inspection

·      Site visit
Suppliers ·      Study visit

·      Product technical standards exchange forum

·      Supplier capability survey

·      Supplier assessment
Education and research partners ·      The 10th China Asphalt Mixing Plant Industry Summit

·      Teaching and technical sharing and exchange forum
Government and other public bodies ·      Inspection

·      Factory exchange interview
Business partners

 

 ·      Seminar

·      Training session

·      Meeting and discussion
Social media ·      Collaboration and cooperation

·      Advertising and promotion

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritise material topics D&G collected the opinions of a total of 251 stakeholders through questionnaires, asking participants to rate anonymously various economic, environmental and social issues.

What actions were taken by D&G to promote employee health and safety?

In its 2019 Sustainability Report D&G reports that it took the following actions for promoting employee health and safety:

  • Establishing the Safety Leading Group
  • In order to closely monitor the actual implementation and effectiveness of relevant policies and measures, D&G has internally established the Safety Leading Group (the “SLG”), which comprises the President, production manager and relevant department heads. The SLG helps to eliminate potential work hazards through measures such as risk identification, hidden trouble investigation and governance, and also ensures compliance with relevant laws and regulations. D&G has set safety production goals, such as: zero major accidents of fire, explosion and chemical leakage; zero occupational diseases; 100% validity of the certificate for special operations personnel; limiting production days affected by environmental protection or safety issues due to internal reasons to less than 15 days. Under the safety management framework, each department cooperates with one another, enabling D&G to comprehensively manage occupational health and safety, and thereby implement and oversee relevant measures effectively.
  • Providing personal protective equipment and developing a safety culture
  • D&G adheres to the people-centred operation approach and views protecting employees’ health and safety as its own responsibility. According to the employee’s job nature and the requirements of occupational health and safety management, D&G allocates relevant equipment and provides personal protective equipment and labour protection products for staff, such as fire extinguishing equipment, goggles and gloves, in order to eliminate occupational hazards. Additionally, D&G seeks to develop a safety culture in the production sites and arranges regular safety training for the employees, including fire drills and relevant courses, explaining the occupational hazards and safety practices in details.
  • Carrying out employee health checks
  • D&G has considered that it is possible for employees to get occupational diseases at work, including pneumoconiosis, eye, ear, nose and throat diseases, and chemical poisoning. In order to ensure the employees’ physical conditions are allowed to cope with the job position, and prevent the operational efficiency from disruption, D&G arranges body checks for employees before, during and after their discharge of job duties. The S&E (Safety and Environmental) Department is responsible for distributing the results to the person in charge or employees themselves, forming occupational health summary and keeping records. Without the approval of the management, the relevant information is not allowed to be borrowed or copied, in a bid to protect the employees’ privacy. During the reporting year, D&G has not noticed any record of health issues related to occupational hazards.

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

The GRI Standard addressed in this case is: Disclosure 403-9 Work-related injuries

Disclosure 403-9 Work-related injuries corresponds to:

 

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.

7 GRI sustainability disclosures get you started

Any size business can start taking sustainability action

GRI, ISEP, CPD Certified Sustainability courses (2-5 days): Live Online or Classroom  (venue: London School of Economics)

  • Exclusive FBRH template to begin reporting from day one
  • 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. 
  • Benchmarking methodology to set you on a path of continuous improvement

See upcoming training dates.
References:

1) This case study is based on published information by D&G, 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 D&G: 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.

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