Annual Report 2010 - Falck

46 Falck Annual Report 2010 | Management review
Report on corporate
social responsibility
Statutory report on corporate social responsibility. See section
99 a of the Danish Financial Statements Act.
As a business and as a business partner, Falck’s activities are
based on basic principles of working to prevent accidents, diseases
and emergency situations, to rescue and assist people in an
emergency quickly and competently and to rehabilitate people
after illness and injury.
Pursuing this mission gives Falck a special responsibility to show
corporate social responsibility, as an employer, service provider
and as a customer.
In step with the growing internationalisation of the Group’s
activities, this has been made more visible through the adoption
and subsequent implementation of a code of conduct
describing the Falck Group’s social, environmental and ethical
guidelines. We expect and demand that everybody, employees,
suppliers and business partners, adhere to these standards.
The guidelines were adopted by the Board of Directors in 2008
and were subsequently confirmed by the Group’s Worldwide
Workers Council. The Worldwide Workers Council is a forum
established based on an agreement with the Union Network
International as a forum for dialogue between employees and
management. One annual meeting is held with participation
of employees from the Group’s countries of operation based
on the number of employees in the respective countries and
representatives appointed by the Group Management.
The Group has established a special task force to deal with the
Group’s corporate social responsibility which is to ensure that
the rules are implemented and that the activities are in accordance
with developments in the CSR field.
As part of the implementation, the Falck Group has introduced
a reporting structure designed to ensure that all officers
holding business responsibility in the respective business areas
report to the HR Department any incidents that constitute a
breach of the code of conduct.
Falck’s code of conduct
The rules adopted by the Falck Group are based on the principles
of the United Nations Global Compact, which cover the
following areas:
Human rights
The company should
• support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed
human rights within the area in which it operates and
has influence;
• make sure that it is not complicit in human rights abuses.
Labour standards
The company should
• uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition
of the right to collective bargaining;
• support the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory
labour;
• support the effective abolition of child labour;
• support the elimination of discrimination in respect of
employment and occupation.
Environment
The company should
• support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;
• undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental
responsibility;
• encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally
friendly technologies.
Anti-corruption
The company should
• work against all forms of corruption, including extortion and
bribery.
Each company of the Falck Group holds individual responsibility
for complying with and implementing the principles of the
code of conduct and for reporting any violations thereof to
the Group’s HR function. At its annual meeting, the Workers
Council reviews all items of the code of conduct with a view to
reporting any violations thereof. No violations were reported
following the meeting in 2010.
In 2010, a number of tools were introduced to be used by suppliers
and business partners to help them ensure that they comply
with Falck’s code of conduct by making a risk assessment
and by giving them access to conducting control for Falck.