Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2011 - Roto Smeets Group

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Contributions to societyRoto Smeets Group is at the centre of society and, where it can,contributes to a healthy social climate. In its achievement offinancial, social and environmental goals, Roto Smeets Group isfully alert to the demands and needs of our neighbours. Duringtheir work it is expected that all Roto Smeets Group employees willobserve the standards and values set down by Roto Smeets Groupin a Code of Conduct. The code of conduct can be found on thecorporate website.Moreover, as market leader in the graphics and communicationsindustry in the Netherlands, Roto Smeets Group also seeks toutilise its knowledge and expertise in the interests of society atlarge, which it does in a number of different ways.Putting knowledge into actionVia the industrial organisationsBoth the Netherlands and Europe have active, industry-wideassociations, working on developments in the graphics industry.Roto Smeets Group makes a significant contribution, both at homeand in the European graphics industry.Some of the causes Roto Smeets Group and its employees contributedto in this way are:- MVO Nederland, partnership- Het Koninklijke Verbond voor Grafische Ondernemingen (RoyalGraphics Industry Association)Roto Smeets Group is represented on:- The management of the employers’ organisation.- The body (chair) that negotiates the graphics media collectivelabour agreement with the trades unions.- The Environmental and Working Conditions Committee KVGO/Kartoflex. This committee deals with environmental andhealth & safety issues for all members of both organisations.- The Comfortable Collective Labour Agreement steeringcommittee.- The Health & Safety catalogue working group.- ROGB (Graphics Media Industry Negotiating Council)Roto Smeets Group is chairman of this, the highest decisionmaking body in the graphics industry and:- Chairs the Collective Labour Agreement- Chairs the committee studying pensions- A and O FundThe A and O fund is concerned with the labour market and training.Roto Smeets Group is represented on this graphics mediaindustry fund’s board.- VNO-NCWRoto Smeets Group is represented in a number of regionaldivisions such as the Urban Triangle Region, where they sit inthe innovation network.- Representation in local / regional organisations- Deventer Employers’ Circle and Environmental Circle- Delegates to the HR and F&E committees in the DeventerEmployers’ Circle- Deventer Docklands Business Interests Foundation- Weert Gatekeeper Centre- European Rotogravure Association (ERA)Roto Smeets Group is represented on the Board of the internationalorganisation for the rotogravure industry.- The ‘Environmental Health & Safety Commission’. Theobjective of this international Commission is to guide andcontribute to the environmental, health and safety aspects ofthe European Graphics Industry and the European rotogravureprinting plants in particular.- The ERA Task Force, a working group that studies all aspectsof environment, health and safety for the graphical industry.The Group also functions as a sounding board for theEuropean Commission in its work to draft an EU Ecolabel forprinted publications.- The Paper Committee, which is working on the standardisationof technical properties of paper types and communicatingsolutions to paper problems. Moreover, the Committeeinforms its members about new developments among thepaper suppliers.- PRN (Paper Recycling Netherlands)Roto Smeets Group sits on the board of PRN, to which a numberof industry associations are attached, making joint agreementsto maintain high-quality collection and recycling of used paperand card and where possible to increase it.- MediaPartners Group is actively involved in Smin (SponsoredMedia Institute of the Netherlands), the central organisationfor the producers of relational media in the Netherlands. Thisorganisation is dedicated to safeguarding the interests of itsmembers and provides training, conducts research and seeks toincrease general support.Smin organises master classes, an executive course, and initiatesjoint (international) research and the Customer Media Awards.In 2009 MediaPartners supplied a lecturer for the Smin Masterclass.A member of the jury was supplied for the CustomerCSR 14 Roto Smeets Group 2011
Media Awards. MediaPartners Group also fills a managementposition in the Customer Media Chair Foundation.- Leads to Loyals is a member of the Dutch Dialogue MarketingAssociation.- Roto Smeets Group participates in the Deventer Business Forum,which is linked to the BOP Academy. Targeted at youth withdevelopment potential in the 14–19 age bracket, commonly secondaryschool dropouts, the BOP Academy aims to return theseyouths to regular education or a suitable working environment.- Leads to Loyals is a knowledge partners of Beekestijn traningcourses, supplying factsheets with case studies and attendingmeetings.Specific areas of expertise- CMBO/DALTCRoto Smeets Group is an active member of the working groupthat is drafting supply specifications and guidelines for digitaldelivery to printers.- GUA (Graphics Users Association)Roto Smeets Group participates in and is represented on theboard of this platform for knowledge exchange among users ofKodak workflow software and safeguarding their interests.- Ghent PDF WorkgroupRoto Smeets Group is a member of this group on behalf ofCMBO. The group is an international association of graphicsindustry central organisations. The association exists to draftand distribute process specifications for optimum graphicsworkflows.- ECI (European Colour Initiative)Roto Smeets Group is a member of the ECI web offset workinggroup, which develops and distributes guidelines for themedium-independent makeup, processing and exchange ofcolour data based on ICC colour management.- PrintArena.nlRoto Smeets Group actively supports the central website for alltechnical supply-side information for printed media. Print Arenais a joint initiative of CMBO, Cebuco, ZSO, KVGO and the DutchPublishers’ Association.Print Arena’s goal is to make knowledge and information accessibleto the creative industry, ultimately to increase the userfriendliness of the printed media.The information issued by Print Arena is chiefly concerned withcurrent standards and specifications in the creative industry.Education and Training- MediaPartners Group is registered as a training company withSavantis, the knowledge centre for professional training. Thetraining given is as media Designer (Graphics Designer), andDesigner of advertising, presentation and communication(Advertising and Publicity design).- Technology week aims to increase interest in technical careersamong the young. Roto Smeets Deventer was one of the firmsorganising guided tours during an Open day on 9 April 2011for pupils in Group 7 of junior school. A group of enthusiasticvolunteers ensured the event’s success.- Also in 2011 Roto Smeets Etten and Roto Smeets Deventer organiseda number of excursions and guided tours for educationalinstitutes, for both teachers and pupils in junior high school whohave to choose the next step in their education. Visitors alsocome from the Regional Training College, intermediate leveltechnology students, as well as from those in practical education.Work experience places are also offered.- Roto Smeets Deventer and the Mid-Netherlands RegionalTraining College, VAPRO and temporary staff agency Timingstarted a new training course in the print shop. This is a BBL/VAPRO competence development course leading to an OperatorB qualification. This was an integration of Roto Smeets’ ownprofessional training with a regular, nationally recognised MBOcourse. This means that over time Roto Smeets Deventer willhave available young, qualified operators, while the employeesare offered an opportunity to follow a different career outsidethe graphics industry.- Roto Smeets Deventer creates opportunities for groups thatexperience difficulty on the job market. Roto Smeets Deventerworks with Sallcon in this area and supports people who needhelp to find work, such as the long-term unemployed, thehandicapped and school leavers. By offering an employmentcontract to unemployed people on social security, Sallcon getsthem off welfare and detaches them to Roto Smeets Deventer(among others) to work in Afterpress or other departments. Thecollaboration with Sallcon is inspired by both business-economicand social considerations.SponsoringPrinted mediaRoto Smeets Group, alone or in association with a paper supplier,regularly makes its printing capacity available to socially relevantprojects.Annually, Roto Smeets Group also sponsors publicity for breastcancer by contributing to the production of Pink Ribbon Magazine.Roto Smeets Group 2011 CSR 15
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Page 5 and 6: From the ChairmanTo all interested
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Page 27 and 28: Education and trainingLast year the
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