safety - PKN Orlen
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Corporate responsibility report<br />
The Ethics Officer is obligated to monitor the application<br />
of the Code of Ethics in relation to any issues<br />
reported to him or her, and submit a consolidated report<br />
to the Management Board. As the employee awareness<br />
of standards arising from the Code of Ethics grows,<br />
they get involved in discussing problems and morally<br />
equivocal situations. The majority of problems reported<br />
in 2010 concerned internal relations in the Company<br />
and moral issues. Each reported problem was analysed<br />
in the context of the provisions of the Code of Ethics,<br />
and actions were taken to explain and resolve each issue.<br />
As a result of engaging many business areas in corrective<br />
measures, the percentage of resolved issues is growing<br />
every year. The Ethics Officer is obliged to develop<br />
open communication, thoroughly analyse the principles<br />
applied in the Company, make people trust him or her,<br />
get involved in difficult discussions concerning ethical<br />
dilemmas, and publicly comment on behaviour that<br />
is incompliant with the Code of Ethics. We are aware<br />
that it takes a long time to change the people’s attitude<br />
to moral issues, which is why we regularly organise education<br />
and communication activities. Proper behaviour<br />
is promoted in corporate media (52 articles and auditions<br />
in “ORLEN ekspres” and ORLEN Studio). The Company<br />
has also organized group meetings and workshops<br />
concerning ethical problems.<br />
<strong>PKN</strong> ORLEN shares the knowledge and presents the experience<br />
gained in this area. In 2010, the Ethics Officer<br />
presented them:<br />
• at the Business Centre Club and to the students<br />
of a post-graduate course on “Ethics in Business”<br />
at the Leon Koźmiński University in Warsaw;<br />
• during a panel at the International Conference on Business<br />
Ethics;<br />
• in a publication entitled “Ku Rzeczypospolitej gospodarczej”,<br />
edited by Professor Gasparski.<br />
<strong>PKN</strong> ORLEN applies the general principles of law and respect<br />
for human rights in its operations. Consequently,<br />
the Company’s activities are not associated with the risk<br />
of child labour or forced labour. Moreover, there have<br />
been no cases of violation of the rights of indigenous<br />
people in the history of our Company. In 2010, the Ethics<br />
Officer received no complaints on corruption.<br />
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