2012 Sustainability selection - SBM Offshore

1.6.4 Employment Standards
SBM Offshore endeavours to match the highest level of employment standards for all its employees' in-line with
the Group’s Code of Conduct and Social Accountability Manual. These standards meet and most often, exceed
International Human Rights and International Labour Guidelines.
SBM Offshore does not tolerate child or forced labour, and does not support or work with companies that sustain
forced or compulsory labour, in compliance with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ILO
Conventions, the OECD Guidelines for multinational enterprises and its own Code of Conduct.
1.6.5 Social Accountability
The Group is presently taking steps to ensure all global operations offices comply with the Group’s Social
Accountability Manual Standard, which is based on SA8000 standards. The standard was implemented in Brazil
in 2009, Equatorial Guinea and Malaysia in 2011, and Angola in 2012.
When the Group implemented SA8000 during 2006, Social Accountability International (SAI) informed the
SA8000 Advisory Board that verification of the standard would not be allowed in Myanmar, until the International
Labour Organisation (ILO) lifted its sanctions. Consequently, a decision was taken to continue the implementation
using an in-house Social Accountability Manual, based on the SA8000 framework, which also requires regular,
transparent auditing of SBM Offshore’s suppliers and subcontractors in Myanmar.
Following an independent audit by Bureau Veritas, the Social Accountability Certificate for Myanmar was issued
in February 2010.
Status updates for the implementation and certification of management systems are shown in the Management
System Compliance table below: