SUSTAINABILITY & CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY OUR CONTRIBUTION TO A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility (SCR) is a broadbased movement in business that encourages companies to take responsibility for the impact of their activities on customers, employees, communities and the environment. Companies committed to corporate responsibility also agree to abide by international labor, human rights and environmental standards. Here’s what we’re doing to ensure that Fristads Kansas Group’s products are produced under safe, fair, legal and humane working conditions and taking care of the environment throughout the supply chain – and some background on how we got to where we are today. The Fristads Kansas Group’s SCR team acts as a platform of resources to complement the brands own activities. We give our brands a common base of targets and guidelines for their actions in sustainability to ensure the highest level of best practice is reached across the Group, while letting each brand create the specific solutions most relevant to its business. SOCIAL COMPLIANCE As a participant of the United Nations Global Compact’s, we are committed to its guiding 10 principles for Corporate Responsibility on Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption. We take respect for human rights, and compliance with international and local labour laws, very seriously. To ensure that we uphold high standards, within our Code of Conduct, labour standards are based on those of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in relation to forced labour, child labour, freedom of association, compensation, working hours, occupational health and safety, and a legally binding employment relationship. We also recognize that all activities associated with the production, consumption and end-of-life disposal of products has an impact on our environment. We believe that it is our responsibility to work actively and systematically to contribute to a process of continuous environmental improvements within our sphere of influence. T he United Nations Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. 3 3
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