MYTILINEOS HOLDINGS - SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2012 - page 22

Human Resources
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Our commitment:
To maintain labour peace by developing performance
reward & management systems, ensuring internal
communication and evaluating individual peformance.
To invest continuously in the improvement of labour re-
lations, showing confidence in our employees’ skills and
encouraging the development of their capabilities
that help achieve individual, team and corporate results.
Occupational Health & Safety
Our commitment:
To ensure that the target
“Zero Accidents & Zero Oc-
cupational Diseases”
is achieved in the workplaces of
all our companies, by adopting modern methods, pro-
moting constant alertness and providing appropriate
education and training to employees of all levels in the
procuction process across all Group companies.
Anti-Corruption
Our commitment:
To adhere to market rules, to participate in international
anti-corruption standards and to strengthen trans-
parency through the dialogue with our Stakeholders and
their active participation in full alignment with our Val-
ues and Principles. To abide by integrity practices and
the corporate governance rules, in order to minimise
our exposure to corruption.
Local communities
Our commitment:
To record local needs and help address them, so that
viable conditions for the development of the local com-
munities concerned are created, especially in regions
where the Group’s activities are of a higher visibility.
Human Rights
Our commitment:
To strive in a continuous and concerted manner to es-
tablish procedures and methods that will define our ac-
tions, so that our commitments remain aligned with the
principles of the United Nations Global Compact re-
garding labour rights.
Environment
Our commitment:
To identify the sources and assume the responsibility for
the unavoidable impacts of our operations on the nat-
ural environment and to carry out concerted “green”
actions or programmes to mitigate these impacts, cou-
pled with systematic monitoring and application of the
Group’s Environmental Measures and Principles across
all Group companies.
Corporate Governance
Our commitment:
To focus on safeguarding the interests of our share-
holders and on creating value for all our Stakeholders.
To continously strengthen corporate culture by up-
holding integrity, ethical standards and transparency,
and by adopting internal practices over and above the
statutory ones to ensure our full compliance with the
regulatory framework on corporate governance to the
highest possible standard.
Fair Market practices
Our commitment:
To strengthen our efforts for strategic investments at the
level of products and technologies, also taking into ac-
count social and environmental needs and parameters.
To promote the gradual incorporation of CSR across our
supply chain and to maintain the ethical characteristics
of our communication policy.
The sustainability of our Group is directly linked to our so-
cial and environmental footprint and is founded on the prin-
ciples of Sustainable Development. Our sincere commitment
to CSR does not only affect our daily decisions and actions,
but also impacts on our relations with our Stakeholders.
In this context, we seek to achieve the best possible un-
derstanding of the implications of our business activities,
which reinforces our efforts to adhere to our individual com-
mitments, which are presented below, and thus improve
our overall maturity and competitiveness.
4.2 Corporate Social Responsibility – Fundamental Commitments
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