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]]> Hap Seng Plantations, the plantation division of Hap Seng Consolidated Berhad (HSCB), is an oil palm plantation company listed on Bursa Malaysia and one of the largest producers of sustainable palm oil in Sabah, Malaysia. Hap Seng Plantations seeks to provide and maintain a safe and healthy working environment for all employees, contractors and visitors.  Tweet This!

This case study is based on the 2019 Sustainability Report by Hap Seng Plantations 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

Hap Seng Plantations’ commitment to safety is to ensure a continuous reduction in the number of accidents in its operations, while continuously instilling a safety-first mindset in its employees’ daily work culture. In order to promote workplace safety Hap Seng Plantations took action to:

  • promote the responsible handling of chemicals
  • implement a standardised health and safety programme
  • apply specific safety procedures

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2019 Sustainability Report Hap Seng Plantations identified a range of material issues, such as water management, labour conditions & welfare, relationship & support to smallholders, transparency, community development. Among these, promoting workplace safety stands out as a key material issue for Hap Seng Plantations.

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 Hap Seng Plantations engages with:

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Government ·      One-to-one meeting with respective agencies
Shareholders/ Investment community ·      Annual general meeting

·      Analyst briefing
Local communities

 

 

 

 ·      Social impact assessments

·      Grievance and complaints channel

·      Programme to encourage company staff to send their children to the school of a neighbouring village so that facilities can be upgraded based on increased student numbers
Workers

 

 ·      Social impact assessments

·      Awareness and continuous improvement
Industry bodies

 

 ·      Members of the RSPO, Incorporated Society of Planters (ISP), Malaysian Palm Oil Association
Employees

 

 ·      Annual performance appraisals

·      Quarterly engagement with HR managers

·      Formalise training
Customers ·      One-on-one meetings
Aflatoun International – RSPO Smallholder Academy ·      Partnership with Aflatoun International

 
Independent local outgrowers & smallholders ·      Provide free technical support and facilities

 
Suppliers

 

 ·      Documents and operation review to ensure suppliers comply with sustainable requirement

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritise material topics Hap Seng Plantations directly engaged with both its internal and external stakeholders through group session engagements, by phone and one-to-one interviews.

What actions were taken by Hap Seng Plantations to promote workplace safety?

In its 2019 Sustainability Report Hap Seng Plantations reports that it took the following actions for promoting workplace safety:

  • Promoting the responsible handling of chemicals
  • As dedicated spraying crews manually apply fertilizers and pesticides in Hap Seng Plantations’ plantations, each crew member receives continuous training in chemical handling, while all sprayers are required to wear PPE (personal protective equipment) covering the full body and must shower after each shift. Assistant managers and field conductors are responsible for ensuring compliance with safety procedures, which is monitored through internal safety audits. Spraying crews are also required to attend a health check every three months. This routine is particularly important for women workers. Pregnant workers are reallocated to new job tasks with less risk, such as general work (e.g. line sweeper), and are given two months of maternity leave after delivery. Hap Seng Plantations has also banned the use of paraquat in all its plantations since 2011, responding to stakeholders’ concerns about the chemical and its widespread misuse.
  • Implementing a standardised health and safety programme
  • To remind its employees to adopt a safe work culture on a daily basis and avoid risk behaviours, Hap Seng Plantations has been implementing a standardised health and safety programme according to job type, across all operations, which includes the following:
    • Annual training on Safety Operating Procedure (SOP) for each work unit.
    • Daily monitoring of the work activity in each work unit by management representatives.
    • Induction training on SOPs for every new employee.
    • Safety committee meetings between management and worker representatives held on a quarterly basis to discuss actions required to improve the SOP of each work unit.
    • Periodical reviews on Hazard Identification Risk Assessment and Risk Control (HIRARC) in order to improve control measures and reduce the risk of accidents.
  • Applying specific safety procedures
  • To not only reduce accident rates but also make OSH (occupational safety and health) a culture and a way of life, Hap Seng Plantations implements specific safety procedures, including:
    • Implementation of a Log Out Tag Out system (LOTO) in mill machinery. LOTO increases machine handling safety, especially during maintenance, by locking the switchboard to prevent accidental activation.
    • Implementation of Permit To Work (PTW) for high-risk and/or non-routine work – for example working at height, in extreme temperatures and in confined spaces. PTWs are only issued to individuals qualified to do the work, thereby ensuring compliance with SOPs.
    • Quarterly workplace safety inspections/audits carried out by a safety committee member to review any set safety measures requiring improvement.
    • Training workers on HIRARC for each work task to help them better understand task-specific hazards.
    • Engaging external occupational safety and health trainers, such as the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and BOMBA, to conduct Authorised Entrant and Standby Person (AESP) competency training and fire training.
  • Additionally, all Hap Seng Plantations’ estates and mills will need to routinely undergo chemical health risk assessments (CHRA). The CHRA is carried out once every five years to understand chemical hazards to health and ensure compliance with the Use and Standard of Exposure Chemical Hazardous to Health (USECHH) Regulation 2000. All Hap Seng Plantations workers are also covered by the Foreign Workmen Compensation Scheme, a general insurance policy that covers both injuries and fatalities.

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

The GRI Standards addressed in this case are:

1) Disclosure 403-4 Worker participation, consultation, and communication on occupational health and safety

2) Disclosure 403-5 Worker training on occupational health and safety

3) Disclosure 403-9 Work-related injuries

4) Disclosure 403-10 Work-related ill health

 

Disclosure 403-4 Worker participation, consultation, and communication on occupational health and safety corresponds to:

Disclosure 403-5 Worker training on occupational health and safety corresponds to:

Disclosure 403-9 Work-related injuries corresponds to:

Disclosure 403-10 Work-related ill health does not correspond to any SDG.

 

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References:

1) This case study is based on published information by Hap Seng Plantations, 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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]]> GRI 403 – The updated standard puts the modern worker at the centre https://sustaincase.com/gri-403-the-updated-standard-puts-the-modern-worker-at-the-centre/ Mon, 08 Oct 2018 06:34:29 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=8148 Although safe and healthy working conditions are recognised as a human right, almost 2.8 million people die every year from work-related injuries and illnesses, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). This is not least a consequence of a lack of robust occupational health and safety (OH&S) management, which can put the lives of workers and their families at risk. To address these concerns, . The updated GRI OH&S standard calls for a more complete, worker-centric reporting from companies, which are now better equipped to report on both harm prevention and health promotion. Judy Kuszewski, Chair of the Global Sustainability […]

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]]> Although safe and healthy working conditions are recognised as a human right, almost 2.8 million people die every year from work-related injuries and illnesses, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). This is not least a consequence of a lack of robust occupational health and safety (OH&S) management, which can put the lives of workers and their families at risk.

To address these concerns, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) launched an updated version of the widely used GRI 403: Occupational Health and Safety reporting standard  Tweet This!. The updated GRI OH&S standard calls for a more complete, worker-centric reporting from companies, which are now better equipped to report on both harm prevention and health promotion.

Judy Kuszewski, Chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board, said: “We saw that there was a need for a rigorous methodology for measuring OH&S performance, based on leading rather than lagging indicators. The Global Sustainability Standards Board set out to create a world-class reporting standard that emphasizes measures that prevent injuries and ill health, aligned with key instruments and with the latest trends in OH&S management.”

GRI-403 covers a wide range of workers, beyond the traditional idea of employees on a payroll

The updated GRI standard puts the worker at the centre. It covers a wide range of workers, beyond the traditional idea of employees on a payroll, and offers a response to modern ways of working, such as the gig economy or the mobile workforce. The standard also focuses on worker’s recovery from work-related injuries, leaving behind measures that only focused on lost work time. The new GRI 403 standard includes disclosures on hazard identification, risk assessment, occupational health services, worker participation, and training, to protect workers from work-related injuries and ill health. In addition, to help workers lead healthier lifestyles, the standard also includes disclosures on non-occupational healthcare services and voluntary health promotion programs.

A combined effort by world-class OH&S experts

The updated GRI standard is aligned with key ILO instruments and with the newly released ISO 45001 on occupational health and safety management systems. The update was completed by a diverse group of stakeholders, who combined knowledge and experience in occupational health and safety. Thus, the Project Working Group included representatives from businesses, labor, civil society, investors and various international organisations.

According to Richard Jones, IOSH Head of Policy and Public Affairs, “standards like this, supporting transparency in operations and supply chains worldwide, can help ensure reports are meaningful and comparable and drive better health and safety performance – benefiting individuals, businesses and societies.”

 

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

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References:

This article is based on published information by GRI. 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 publication’s meaning. If you would like to quote these written sources from the original please revert to the following link:

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]]> Case study: How BEWG promotes workplace safety https://sustaincase.com/case-study-how-bewg-promotes-workplace-safety/ Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:41:20 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=7584 As a leading provider of professional, all-inclusive water environment services, whose business fields include urban water services, watershed water services, industrial water services, seawater desalination, environment sanitation and solid waste, clean energy and technological services, BEWG (Beijing Enterprises Water Group Limited) attaches great importance to workplace safety. This case study is based on the 2016 Sustainability Report by BEWG 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/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important impacts on the […]

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As a leading provider of professional, all-inclusive water environment services, whose business fields include urban water services, watershed water services, industrial water services, seawater desalination, environment sanitation and solid waste, clean energy and technological services, BEWG (Beijing Enterprises Water Group Limited) attaches great importance to workplace safety.

This case study is based on the 2016 Sustainability Report by BEWG 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/ 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.

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BEWG’s employees are its most valuable asset. As a consequence, respecting and protecting employees is, for BEWG, a top priority  Tweet This!. In order to promote workplace safety BEWG took action to:

  • clarify safety management responsibilities
  • identify and eliminate safety hazards
  • organize safety training and awareness raising activities for employees

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2016 Sustainability Report BEWG identified a range of material issues, such as environmental protection awareness raising, business compliance, product and service quality, offering environmentally friendly products and services. Among these, promoting workplace safety stands out as a key material issue for BEWG.

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 BEWG engages with:

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Shareholders and Investors ·         Shareholder conferences

·         Regular reports and announcements

·         Investor communication meetings

·         Official website
Government and Regulators

 

 ·         Routine Reports

·         On-site inspection

·         Supervision of the products and services

·         Policy advices through industry associations
Customers

 

 ·         Customers satisfaction survey

·         Executives visits

·         Face to face interviews in communities

·         Hearings
Employees ·         Congresses of staff

·         Employee satisfaction survey

·         Communication mechanism about career development

·         Employees’ caring activities
Value Chain Partners ·         Open tendering

·         Cooperation within industry

·         Industry seminars

·         Sharing and promoting research achievements
Communities ·         Face to face interview in communities

·         Public benefit activities

·         Social impact evaluation
Environment ·         Environment impact assessment

·         Public investigation of projects’ environmental impacts

·         Environmental public welfare activities

·         Connections with environmental NGOs

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritize material issues BEWG carried out a stakeholder survey, using an online survey platform. As a result, BEWG received 377 pieces of stakeholder feedback, from 19 provinces.

What actions were taken by BEWG to promote workplace safety?

In its 2016 Sustainability Report BEWG reports that it took the following actions for promoting workplace safety:

  • Clarifying safety management responsibilities
  • BEWG urged senior management staff in charge of business units to sign a safety responsibility letter, which clearly identified safety accountabilities and established safety objectives. In addition, BEWG conducted surveys regarding the safety management team composition of each business unit, requiring them to create dedicated safety management positions with clearly defined job descriptions and accountabilities.
  • Identifying and eliminating safety hazards
  • BEWG believes that “Hazards are accidents”. As a consequence, BEWG conducts regular, specific, all-inclusive, periodic inspections, along with special inspections before special events or holidays, to detect and eliminate safety hazards.
  • Organizing safety training and awareness raising activities for employees
  • BEWG organizes the Safety Month event, focusing on raising the safety alertness and safety accident preparedness of its employees through, among others, training and education, safety hazard screening and elimination and emergency drills. Additionally, BEWG uses on-site electric displays, a safety knowledge competition and safety education videos to help employees develop safety knowledge and a stronger safety awareness. Moreover, to improve employees’ awareness of fire hazards and help them better protect themselves and put out fire in case of a fire accident, BEWG collaborated with the local fire brigade and financial institutions and implemented a series of fire safety education programmes. These programmes included fire hazards inspections and fire emergency drills, and employees were provided with fire safety tips, fire alarm information, fire distinguishing skills and safe escape tips.

Which GRI indicators/Standards have been addressed?

The GRI indicator addressed in this case is: G4-LA7: Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation and the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-3 Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation

 

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 BEWG, 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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]]> Case study: How Ardentec promotes workplace health and safety https://sustaincase.com/case-study-how-ardentec-promotes-workplace-health-and-safety/ Wed, 25 Jul 2018 04:26:43 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=7261 As one of Taiwan’s top specialized semiconductor testing companies, Ardentec, based on engineering expertise and service passion, provides comprehensive semiconductor test solutions to customers, aspiring to be a model company that provides employees with the best care and benefits. Accordingly, . This case study is based on the 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility Report by Ardentec 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/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important impacts on the environment, economy and society, […]

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As one of Taiwan’s top specialized semiconductor testing companies, Ardentec, based on engineering expertise and service passion, provides comprehensive semiconductor test solutions to customers, aspiring to be a model company that provides employees with the best care and benefits. Accordingly, promoting occupational health and safety is, for Ardentec, a top priority  Tweet This!.

This case study is based on the 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility Report by Ardentec 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/ 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.

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Ardentec has four manufacturing sites with a total space of more than 70,000 square meters and employs 1,628 people worldwide, striving to create and maintain a safe and healthy work environment. In order to promote workplace health and safety Ardentec took action to:

  • improve safety and health performance through the OSH Committee
  • promote occupational health and safety through the Healthy Workplace Program
  • provide safety and health education and training

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility Report Ardentec identified a range of material issues, such as integrity management, business performance and profitability, customer service and satisfaction, risk management, respect for human rights. Among these, promoting workplace health and safety stands out as a key material issue for Ardentec.

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 Ardentec engages with:

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Employees ·         Labor-management meetings

·         Safety window meetings

·         Occupational safety and health committee meetings

·         Intranet e-platform

·         Suggestion (on-line or box)/telephone/Email

·         Announcements

·         Department meetings
Customers

 

 ·         Meeting/audit

·         Customer satisfaction management or survey

·         Customer visit

·         Company website
Suppliers and contractors ·         Contractor training

·         Supplier CSR and Business Ethics Guidelines

·         Protocol meeting

·         Supplier/contractor audit

·         Meetings or communications
Government and regulatory agencies ·         Regulation seminars or public hearings

·         Financial statements

·         Reports or responses on demand

·         Official correspondences

·         Industrial development conference

·         Report and reply of each business
Investors ·         Shareholder meetings

·         Investor meeting

·         Financial statement or annual report

·         Market Observation Post System

·         Company website

·         Meetings or communications
Cooperation institutions ·         Audit

·         Meetings or communications

·         Enterprise-academy collaboration program
Creditors ·         Relevant information providing or reply as required

·         Meetings or communications

·         Financial statements
Community ·         Company website, e-mail

·         Social welfare activities

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritize material issues Ardentec carried out a questionnaire survey among stakeholders.

What actions were taken by Ardentec to promote workplace health and safety?

In its 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility Report Ardentec reports that it took the following actions for promoting workplace health and safety:

  • Improving safety and health performance through the OSH Committee
  • Ardentec’s OSH (Occupational Safety and Health) Committee reviews workplace safety and health programs/plans and how effectively they are implemented. In addition, committee meetings enable all employee representatives to freely express their opinions about safety and health.
  • Promoting occupational health and safety through the Healthy Workplace Program
  • Ardentec’s Healthy Workplace Program includes:
    • health checks provided every two years
    • medical counseling: occupational illness specialists help prevent, consult on, and treat general and occupational illnesses and injuries
    • health care for high-risk employees
    • emergency aid: employees who fall ill or are injured while working receive immediate medical attention by health professionals
    • pandemic disease control: Ardentec has established epidemic prevention mechanisms preventing the spread of contagious diseases and viral infections
    • care for female employees: among others, Ardentec arranges regular annual female three-in-one cancer screenings and provides a specific color of working clothes for pregnant employees who work in the factories, to keep others aware
    • annual refresher first aid training
    • health promotion: Ardentec organizes various health promotion activities, including stress and weight loss management
  • Providing safety and health education and training
  • Ardentec provides safety and health education and training to all new and existing employees and also requires employees to complete applicable safety and health training, depending on the nature of their jobs. Additionally, when handling chemicals, employees have to complete a series of training programs regarding hazard awareness, characteristics of chemical substances, measures to prevent exposure and emergency response.

Which GRI indicators/Standards have been addressed?

The GRI indicators/Standards addressed in this case are:

1) G4-LA5: Percentage of total workforce represented in formal joint management–worker health and safety committees that help monitor and advise on occupational health and safety programs – the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-1 Workers representation in formal joint management–worker health and safety committees

2) G4-LA6: Type of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities, by region and by gender – the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-2 Types of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and number of work-related fatalities

3) G4-LA7: Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation – the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-3 Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation

4) G4-LA8: Health and safety topics covered in formal agreements with trade unions – the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-4 Health and safety topics covered in formal agreements with trade unions

 

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 Ardentec, 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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]]> Case study: How ASE provides employees with a safe and healthy work environment https://sustaincase.com/case-study-how-ase-provides-employees-with-a-safe-and-healthy-work-environment/ Mon, 16 Jul 2018 06:22:50 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=7078 As a leading global provider of semiconductor manufacturing services, striving to meet the electronics industry’s growing needs, with sales and manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe – in Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, America and Europe –, . This case study is based on the 2016 Corporate Sustainability Report by ASE 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/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important impacts on the environment, economy and society, […]

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As a leading global provider of semiconductor manufacturing services, striving to meet the electronics industry’s growing needs, with sales and manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe – in Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, America and Europe –, protecting the health and safety of its employees is a top priority for ASE  Tweet This!.

This case study is based on the 2016 Corporate Sustainability Report by ASE 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/ 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.

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Preventing occupational accidents and ensuring the health and safety of its over 66,000 employees worldwide is highly important for ASE. In order to provide employees with a safe and healthy work environment ASE took action to:

  • implement an OHS management system
  • promote disaster and emergency preparedness
  • provide employees with health and medical care

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2016 Corporate Sustainability Report ASE identified a range of material issues, such as regulatory compliance, waste management, water resource management, labor/management relations. Among these, providing employees with a safe and healthy work environment stands out as a key material issue for ASE.

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 ASE engages with:

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Customers ·         Customer quarterly business review meeting

·         Customer audits

·         Technical forums

·         Customer service platform
Employees

 

 ·         GM mailbox

·         Intranet website

·         Satisfaction survey on employees

·         Dedicated employee helpline
Shareholders

 

 ·         Annual financial reports

·         Quarterly earnings release

·         Annual shareholder meeting

·         Institutional investors’ conference
Suppliers ·         Supplier questionnaire survey

·         Supplier on-site audits

·         Annual supplier forum

·         Supplier capacity-building activities
Government ·         Communication meetings, conferences, forums or seminars held by government authorities

·         Proactive dialogue with government authorities

·         Reporting through government portal
Community ·         ASE Charity Foundation

·         ASE Cultural and Educational Foundation

·         Employee volunteer activities

·         Community perception surveys and needs assessments
Industry Unions and Associations ·         Organizational member conference

·         Technology forums held by industry unions/associations
Media ·         Press releases

·         Spokesperson interviews

·         Company’s website
NGOs ·         Communication meetings, forums, seminars or workshops held by NGOs

·         Company’s website

·         Volunteer activity cooperation with NGOs

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritize material issues ASE engaged with its stakeholders through a survey – 866 questionnaires were completed by stakeholders.

What actions were taken by ASE to provide employees with a safe and healthy work environment?

In its 2016 Corporate Sustainability Report ASE reports that it took the following actions for providing employees with a safe and healthy work environment:

  • Implementing an OHS management system
  • ASE implements an OHS (occupational health and safety) management system to prevent all types of accidents and ensure employees’ health and safety. The OHS management system covers occupational safety, emergency response, work injury and occupational disease prevention, industrial hygiene, physical labor work, machinery protection, public health and accommodation, and health and safety information. Additionally, every year ASE assesses and identifies risks for all new or modified manufacturing processes, determining risks and applying control procedures where needed.
  • Promoting disaster and emergency preparedness
  • All ASE manufacturing facilities have disaster response and recovery plans and, once a year, carry out full-scale emergency drills in cooperation with local authorities. Some of ASE’s facilities are located in earthquake and typhoon prone areas, and these drills enable the company to effectively prevent major damages to human lives or buildings, as well as disruptions to its production processes. In 2016, ASE conducted 937 drills for earthquakes, fire and chemical disasters.
  • Providing employees with health and medical care
  • ASE offers employees complete health and medical care, which includes preventative care, statutory infectious disease emergency response procedures and emergency rescue response procedures. By monitoring and analyzing employees’ health records, ASE is able to identify risk areas affecting employees’ health and to actively improve their physical well-being.

Which GRI indicators/Standards have been addressed?

The GRI indicator addressed in this case is: G4-LA7: Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation and the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-3 Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation

 

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. 
  • 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 ASE, 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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]]> Case study: How Compal promotes occupational health and safety https://sustaincase.com/case-study-how-compal-ensures-occupational-health-and-safety/ Mon, 02 Jul 2018 09:36:02 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=6993 As a leading global manufacturer of notebook PCs, smart devices, data center equipment and LCD products, handling the production of notebook computers, monitors and televisions for a variety of clients around the globe, providing employees with a work environment where they can work free of safety concerns is a top priority for Compal. This case study is based on the 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility Report by Compal 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/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important […]

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This case study is based on the 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility Report by Compal 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/ 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.

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Providing its 55,269 employees, located throughout Taiwan, China and Brazil, with a safe and healthy workplace is highly important for Compal  Tweet This!. In order to promote occupational health and safety Compal took action to:

  • promote workplace safety
  • identify hazards in the work environment
  • provide emergency response training for employees
  • promote employee health and wellness

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility Report Compal identified a range of material issues, such as economic performance, customer privacy, compliance, labor-management relations, products & services. Among these, promoting occupational health and safety stands out as a key material issue for Compal.

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 Compal engages with:

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Employees

 

 ·         Labor-management communication channels

·         Internal publications

·         Welfare Committee

·         Intranet

·         Education and training
Customers

 

 ·         Conferences

·         Email

·         Customer audits

·         Customers’ supplier conferences
Shareholders ·         Shareholder meetings

·         Shareholder hotline/mailbox

·         Investor seminar

·         Market Observation Post System
Suppliers

 

 ·         Conferences

·         Email

·         Supplier audit

·         Supplier conferences

·         Supplier system
Governments

 

 ·         Correspondence

·         Participation in government projects

·         Participation in regulatory seminars/conferences

·         Actual visits
Non-profit organizations ·         Participate in charity events

·         On-site visits

·         Email

·         Phone contact
Media ·         Press release

·         Press conference
Community ·         Participation in community activities

·         Email

·         Telephone

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritize material issues based on stakeholders’ concerns, Compal carried out discussions with each stakeholder group.

What actions were taken by Compal to promote occupational health and safety?

In its 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility Report Compal reports that it took the following actions for promoting occupational health and safety:

  • Promoting workplace safety
  • Compal requires all employees to wear staff IDs inside plants. Additionally, an access card system at every entrance and exit controls personnel’s access. For clients, suppliers and other visitors a security system is utilized to record the time of visit and number of visitors, regulating the areas and time open to visitors. Moreover, Compal’s security personnel work in shifts 24 hours a day to control entry of personnel and objects, conduct safety inspections day and night inside and outside plants, monitor the presence of visitors and overtime workers, check incoming/outgoing vehicles and perform traffic control.
  • Identifying hazards in the work environment
  • Every Compal plant is staffed with a unit responsible for carrying out inspections and identifying hazards in the work environment. These inspections include, among others, traffic safety, power safety and security measures and drinking water, smoke detector, lighting protection and fire safety equipment tests. In addition, the Smart Devices Business Group tests office lighting, CO2 concentration, electromagnetic absorbency rate and lab organic solvent concentration, twice a year.
  • Providing emergency response training for employees
  • Once a year, Compal employees attend a training course on disaster prevention. Employees are required to complete the course, which provides information on how to deal with situations such as fire, storm, flood and earthquake. Compal also organizes fire drills, which are carried out yearly at all plants worldwide.
  • Promoting employee health and wellness
  • Compal offers red meat-free menus on the first working day of each month, to address employees’ dietary needs. Moreover, foods served in the cafeteria are specially designed by nutritionists every week, to control calorie intake and ensure employees’ healthy diet. Additionally, Compal’s Fitness and Recreation Center enables employees to exercise after work, relieve physical and mental stress built up at work and meet other employees who share the same interests.

Which GRI indicators/Standards have been addressed?

The GRI indicator addressed in this case is: G4-LA6: Type of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities, by region and by gender and the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-2 Types of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and number of work-related fatalities

 

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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  • 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 Compal, 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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]]> Case study: How Ashok Leyland promotes occupational health and safety https://sustaincase.com/case-study-how-ashok-leyland-ensures-occupational-health-and-safety/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:35:10 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=6882 As a leading Indian commercial vehicle manufacturer, whose product portfolio includes buses, trucks, light vehicles, defence mobility solutions and power solutions, protecting the health, safety and wellbeing of its employees, contractors and visitors through a range of policies, programs and initiatives is a top priority for Ashok Leyland. This case study is based on the 2016-17 Sustainability Report by Ashok Leyland 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/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important impacts […]

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As a leading Indian commercial vehicle manufacturer, whose product portfolio includes buses, trucks, light vehicles, defence mobility solutions and power solutions, protecting the health, safety and wellbeing of its employees, contractors and visitors through a range of policies, programs and initiatives is a top priority for Ashok Leyland.

This case study is based on the 2016-17 Sustainability Report by Ashok Leyland 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/ 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.

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Ashok Leyland is committed to constantly strengthening its culture of safety  Tweet This!, safeguarding the health and physical wellbeing of its 10,222 employees. In order to promote occupational health and safety Ashok Leyland took action to:

  • implement an occupational safety program
  • achieve health and safety objectives through safety committees
  • provide safety training for employees

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2016-17 Sustainability Report Ashok Leyland identified a range of material issues, such as business growth and profitability, regulatory compliance, energy management, product safety and quality, waste management, recruitment and talent/skill management. Among these, promoting occupational health and safety stands out as a key material issue for Ashok Leyland.

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 Ashok Leyland engages with:

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Employees

 

 ·         Monthly and quarterly meet

·         Personal review and visits

·         Surveys

·         Training

·         Annual day

·         Events
Suppliers

 

 ·         Suppliers meet

·         Tech days

·         Mutual visits

·         Monthly meetings with leadership

·         Events
Dealers

 

 ·         Events

·         Dealer panel engagement
Customers (Institutional and Retail) ·         Events

·         Survey

·         Ashok Leyland initiatives
Government and Regulatory authorities ·         One to one meetings

·         Events and conferences

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritize material issues Ashok Leyland collected stakeholder feedback through questionnaires and interactions.

What actions were taken by Ashok Leyland to promote occupational health and safety?

In its 2016-17 Sustainability Report Ashok Leyland reports that it took the following actions for promoting occupational health and safety:

  • Implementing an occupational safety program
  • Ashok Leyland’s occupational safety program includes all measures taken to prevent work accidents, work-related illnesses and occupational diseases. The safety program also comprises accident investigation, ergonomics, emergency response, hazard identification, risk assessment and constant workplace inspections. In addition, Ashok Leyland applies a health and safety policy which covers all the manufacturing, R&D, warehouse, distribution centers and office buildings across the company’s plants.
  • Achieving health and safety objectives through safety committees
  • To make sure health and safety goals are met, Ashok Leyland has established safety committees, with equal representation of employees and management. Safety committees discuss concerns, observations, results of audits and, also, review the company’s safety strategy. Additionally, safety committees promote transparent communication on incidents, accidents and their reporting and circulate important developments on safety improvements.
  • Providing safety training for employees
  • Ashok Leyland offers its employees first aid refresher training and, also, refresher training on the proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Additional training provided by the company includes driver safety for personnel involved in the operation of powered equipment, safe lifting practices, fire and electrical safety, accident response, spill response and training on machine-specific safeguards.

Which GRI indicators/Standards have been addressed?

The GRI indicator addressed in this case is: G4-LA9: Average hours of training per year per employee by gender, and by employee category and the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 404-1 Average hours of training per year per employee

 

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

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

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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. 
  • 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 Ashok Leyland, 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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]]> Case study: How GAR promotes employee health, safety and wellbeing https://sustaincase.com/case-study-gar-ensures-employee-health-safety/ Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:05:16 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=6862 As a leading global integrated palm oil plantation company, whose activities range from cultivating and harvesting oil palm trees and processing fresh fruit bunches into crude palm oil (CPO) to refining CPO into industrial and consumer products and merchandising palm products around the globe, (Golden Agri-Resources Ltd). This case study is based on the 2015 Sustainability Report by GAR 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/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important impacts on the […]

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As a leading global integrated palm oil plantation company, whose activities range from cultivating and harvesting oil palm trees and processing fresh fruit bunches into crude palm oil (CPO) to refining CPO into industrial and consumer products and merchandising palm products around the globe, creating a safer workplace for all employees is a key priority for GAR  Tweet This! (Golden Agri-Resources Ltd).

This case study is based on the 2015 Sustainability Report by GAR 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/ 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.

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GAR manages 167 oil palm estates, with a total area of 485,600 hectares. Promoting a healthy and safe working environment for 49,000 direct employees, 67,000 smallholders and 58,000 casual workers is, thus, a key priority. In order to promote employee health, safety and wellbeing GAR took action to:

  • introduce a new Health and Safety policy
  • provide OHS training to employees
  • offer employees access to healthcare

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2015 Sustainability Report GAR identified a range of material issues, such as deforestation of High Carbon Stock (HCS) forests and peat lands, community relations and resolution of community conflicts, degradation of High Conservation Value (HCV) forests and biodiversity, free, prior, informed consent (FPIC) for indigenous and local communities. Among these, promoting employee health, safety and wellbeing stands out as a key material issue for GAR.

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 GAR engages with:                       

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Customers and consumers

 

 ·         Multi-stakeholder forums and industry groups

·         One-on-one meetings

·         Monthly e-update

·         GAR website

·         GAR Sustainability Dashboard

·         Annual Report

·         Sustainability Report

·         Social media
Employees

 

 ·         Annual appraisals

·         Townhall meetings

·         Trade union meeting

·         HR training sessions

·         Surveys

·         GAR website

·         GAR Sustainability Dashboard

·         Social media
Investors, banks,

financial analysts

 

 ·         Investor briefings

·         One-on-one communications

·         Communication via email

·         Monthly e-update

·         GAR website

·         GAR Sustainability Dashboard

·         Annual Report

·         Sustainability Report
Governments ·         One-on-one meetings

·         Multi-stakeholder forums

·         Events

·         GAR website

·         GAR Sustainability Dashboard

·         Annual Report

·         Sustainability Report
Industry bodies and

trade associations

 ·         One-on-one meetings

·         Multi-stakeholder forums

·         Events
Local communities ·         FPIC through GAR’s participatory conservation approach

·         Complaints handling and conflict resolution mechanisms

·         Two-way dialogue and consultation with community groups and representatives

·         Involvement in GAR’s community programmes

·         Involvement in the Desa Siaga Api programme to combat fire and haze
Media ·         One-on-one communications, briefings, interviews, articles and op-eds

·         Corporate events

·         Multi-stakeholder forums and external events

·         GAR website

·         GAR Sustainability Dashboard

·         Annual Report

·         Sustainability Report

·         Social media
Civil society

organisations (CSOs)

 ·         Multi-stakeholder forums

·         Regular one-on-one meetings

·         GAR Sustainability Dashboard

·         GAR website

·         Monthly e-update

·         Annual Report

·         Sustainability Report

·         Social media
Suppliers (including

smallholders)

 ·         One-on-one communications

·         Workshops and training sessions

·         Site visits

·         Questionnaires

·         GAR website

·         GAR Sustainability Dashboard

·         Annual Report

·         Sustainability Report
Certification bodies:

RSPO, ISPO, ISCC

 ·         Regular reporting

·         Participation in working groups

·         One-on-one meetings

·         Roundtable meetings

 How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritize material issues GAR conducted a survey among external stakeholders and internal management. The external stakeholders – 119 people – consulted through the survey included academia, banks and investors, civil society organizations, customers and consumers, certification bodies, trade and industry associations and Indonesian and Singaporean government.

What actions were taken by GAR to promote employee health, safety and wellbeing?

In its 2015 Sustainability Report GAR reports that it took the following actions for promoting employee health, safety and wellbeing:

  • Introducing a new Health and Safety policy
  • GAR launched a new Health and Safety policy to:
    • raise awareness of health and safety management among employees and related stakeholders
    • promote compliance with government regulations and related guidelines
    • implement health and safety practices as part of GAR’s operating processes
    • identify and manage operational risks, to prevent and reduce work-related accidents
    • constantly improve the company’s OHS (Occupational Health and Safety) performance through regular monitoring and evaluation
  • Providing OHS training to employees
  • GAR has approximately 530 dedicated OHS experts within its workforce and carries out periodic training for all employees, in line with national regulations. In 2014 and 2015, 6,890 of the company’s downstream employees were offered OHS training.
  • Offering employees access to healthcare
  • Committed to providing its entire workforce with access to healthcare, GAR has built healthcare facilities on most of its estates. The facilities are staffed with qualified healthcare professionals, who participate in regular training to improve their skills. At the end of 2015, the company had 150 polyclinics with inpatient facilities, 26 doctors and 291 paramedics, serving on average 1,113 patients every day. The medical care these healthcare facilities provide includes pre-employment medical check-ups for new recruits and special medical check-ups for workers exposed to possible health and safety hazards.

Which GRI indicators/Standards have been addressed?

The GRI indicators/Standards addressed in this case are:

1) G4-LA5: Percentage of total workforce represented in formal joint management–worker health and safety committees that help monitor and advise on occupational health and safety programs – the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-1 Workers representation in formal joint management–worker health and safety committees

2) G4-SO1: Percentage of operations with implemented local community engagement, impact assessments, and development programs – the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 413-1 Operations with local community engagement, impact assessments, and development programs

 

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

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References:

1) This case study is based on published information by GAR, 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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]]> Case study: How ExxonMobil promotes employee health and wellness https://sustaincase.com/case-study-how-exxonmobil-ensures-employee-health-and-wellness/ Mon, 04 Jun 2018 08:25:51 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=6773 As the largest publicly held oil and gas company in the world, with a diversified portfolio of high-quality assets, projects and resources across the company’s Upstream, Downstream and Chemical businesses, . It is a core value and an essential part of the company’s culture, that relates to every aspect of its operations. This case study is based on the 2015 Corporate Citizenship Report by ExxonMobil 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/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a […]

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As the largest publicly held oil and gas company in the world, with a diversified portfolio of high-quality assets, projects and resources across the company’s Upstream, Downstream and Chemical businesses, caring for the health and well-being of its approximately 73,500 employees, is more than just a priority for ExxonMobil  Tweet This!. It is a core value and an essential part of the company’s culture, that relates to every aspect of its operations.

This case study is based on the 2015 Corporate Citizenship Report by ExxonMobil 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/ 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.

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ExxonMobil regards the protection, through effective solutions, of its workforce and operations from major health threats as fundamental to the company’s enduring business success. In order to promote employee health and wellness ExxonMobil took action to:

  • identify and evaluate occupational health risks
  • implement prevention, control and monitoring programs
  • support employee health through the Culture of Health program
  • minimize worker fatigue

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2015 Corporate Citizenship Report ExxonMobil identified a range of material issues, such as managing climate change risks, corporate governance, local development and supply chain management, environmental performance. Among these, promoting employee health and wellness stands out as a key material issue for ExxonMobil.

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 ExxonMobil engages with:   

Stakeholder Group
Employees
Customers
Suppliers
Communities
Governments
Non-governmental organizations
Shareholders

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritize material issues, ExxonMobil engaged external stakeholders and, also, ExxonMobil business line representatives through feedback sessions.

What actions were taken by ExxonMobil to promote employee health and wellness?

In its 2015 Corporate Citizenship Report ExxonMobil reports that it took the following actions for promoting employee health and wellness:

  • Identifying and evaluating occupational health risks
  • To identify and evaluate occupational health risks ExxonMobil conducts health hazard exposure assessments, relating to field work activities. Industrial hygiene professionals carry out these assessments, using a global, all-inclusive approach.
  • Implementing prevention, control and monitoring programs
  • To protect ExxonMobil workers and their families, ExxonMobil has developed and implements prevention, control and monitoring programs. These programs deal with the threat of infectious diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Ebola and other outbreaks. One such program is the company’s Malaria Control Program. The program strives to prevent and swiftly manage malaria cases among employees and contractors working in or traveling to malaria risk areas.
  • Supporting employee health through the Culture of Health program
  • Culture of Health is a health and wellness program designed to support the health of ExxonMobil employees and reduce health care costs. The company provides collaborative health education and nutrition and fitness programs, also offering employees health coaching and disease management.
  • Minimizing worker fatigue
  • To minimize and mitigate worker fatigue – which can affect the health and safety of its workforce – ExxonMobil implements relevant programs at various sites, including refineries, chemical plants and pipeline operations in the United States, as well as some of the company’s Upstream facilities in Canada.

Which GRI indicators/Standards have been addressed?

The GRI indicator addressed in this case is: G4-LA7: Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation and the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-3 Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation

 

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. 
  • 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 ExxonMobil, 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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]]> Case study: How Evonik protects and promotes employee health https://sustaincase.com/case-study-how-evonik-protects-and-promotes-employee-health/ Fri, 18 May 2018 10:18:05 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=6694 As a global leader in specialty chemicals, operating in over 100 countries, protecting the health and employability of its more than 36,000 employees, preventing workplace accidents and incidents and creating a solid safety culture across the Group through a range of policies, procedures and programs, is a top priority for Evonik. This case study is based on the 2016 Sustainability Report by Evonik 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/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most […]

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As a global leader in specialty chemicals, operating in over 100 countries, protecting the health and employability of its more than 36,000 employees, preventing workplace accidents and incidents and creating a solid safety culture across the Group through a range of policies, procedures and programs, is a top priority for Evonik.

This case study is based on the 2016 Sustainability Report by Evonik 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/ 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.

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Protecting and promoting the health, safety and employability of employees has priority over sales and profits at Evonik, as a matter of central importance to the company and its stakeholders. In order to protect and promote employee health Evonik took action to:

  • provide emergency medical management
  • provide preventive healthcare
  • implement health management programs
  • apply an Occupational Health Performance Index

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2016 Sustainability Report Evonik identified a range of material issues, such as compliance, customer satisfaction, product stewardship, innovations/technologies. Among these, protecting and promoting employee health stands out as a key material issue for Evonik.

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 Evonik engages with:   

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement (in 2016)
Customers

 

 ·         Trade shows, talks with customer, reports

·         Stakeholder dialogue “Healthy nutrition for a sustainable world”
Employees ·         Employee surveys

·         Intranet, employee magazine

·         “Roundtable” discussions and networks

·         Social media platforms

·         Workshops on specific issues, e. g., human rights
Suppliers ·         Supplier workshops, e. g., “Sustainability Day”

·         TfS event in Mumbai
Shareholders

 

 ·         Annual Shareholders’ Meeting

·         Roadshows/conferences
Creditors

 

 ·         Talks with rating agencies

·         Talks with lenders
Legislators ·         Involvement in the work of associations

·         Dialogue partner in the opinion-forming process

·         Stakeholder dialogue: “Healthy nutrition for a sustainable world”

·         Brainstorming workshop in Brussels on “sustainable food”
Authorities ·         Talks with authorities

·         Brainstorming workshop in Brussels on “sustainable food”
Local residents ·         Open days

·         Invitations to tours and discussions

·         Environmental and neighborhood hotlines

·         Survey on acceptance, Wesseling site

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritize material topics Evonik surveyed approximately 500 representatives of stakeholder groups, including customers, suppliers, local residents around the company’s sites, analysts, investors and representatives of universities, research institutes, professional associations, political parties, non-governmental organizations and the media. Evonik employees also participated in the survey, through the intranet.

What actions were taken by Evonik to protect and promote employee health?

In its 2016 Sustainability Report Evonik reports that it took the following actions for protecting and promoting employee health:

  • Providing emergency medical management
  • At Evonik’s sites specific processes are followed for accidents where employees have come into contact with chemicals and need special medical treatment. In addition, Evonik’s emergency medical management includes pandemic plans and regular training exercises. A wide-ranging preventive program for employees on business trips and foreign assignments is also implemented, including a global emergency management system for medical problems and risks to personal safety.
  • Providing preventive healthcare
  • [tweetthis]Evonik takes appropriate preventive measures to avoid work-related illnesses and health problems.[/tweetthis] When an increased risk for specific employees is identified, technical and organizational measures take priority over the use of personal protective equipment. Additionally, at preventive medical check-ups, employees are advised on individual health risks and, where required, suitable precautions.
  • Implementing health management programs
  • To promote employees’ health, Evonik supports long-term programs on exercise, diet, stress and work-life balance, substance abuse and avoiding infections, intended to encourage employees to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Fit-for-life seminars are also available to employees, concentrating on a healthy lifestyle and on maintaining long-term well-being and employability. In addition, campaigns focusing on different topics every year take place, along with general medical check-ups.
  • Applying an Occupational Health Performance Index
  • Evonik’s Occupational Health Performance Index, regarding occupational medicine, health promotion and emergency medical management, enables the company to measure progress in occupational health requirements and targets and achieve continuous improvement.

Which GRI indicators/Standards have been addressed?

The GRI indicators/Standards addressed in this case are:

1) G4-LA5: Percentage of total workforce represented in formal joint management–worker health and safety committees that help monitor and advise on occupational health and safety programs – the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-1 Workers representation in formal joint management–worker health and safety committees

2) G4-LA6: Type of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities, by region and by gender – the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-2 Types of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and number of work-related fatalities

3) G4-LA7: Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation – the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-3 Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation

4) G4-LA8: Health and safety topics covered in formal agreements with trade unions – the updated GRI Standard is: Disclosure 403-4 Health and safety topics covered in formal agreements with trade unions

 

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 Evonik, 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/

Note to Evonik: 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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