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Industrial Operations / Employees• Responsibility towards customers.To have and keep customers bymeans of continual developmentand to have the ability to provideproducts, services and solutionsthat meet customers’ expectationswith regard to quality, safety andconcern for the environment.• Responsibility towards employees.To respect employees and theirrights, to provide safe and goodworking conditions, to offer nondiscriminatoryterms and to continuouslydevelop skills and competenceto ensure that each individualis satisfied and has careeropportunities.• Responsibility towards shareholders.To protect our shareholders’ investedcapital and to aim for a sustainablereturn that grows steadily.• Responsibility towards society.To run the business as a respon -sible member of society and to actin accordance with the laws in thevarious countries in which we arerepresented, to express our supportand to show respect in protectinginternationally declared humanrights. We shall always heedhealth, safety and environmentalissues in order to contribute tosustainable development.HealthAs part of the Geveko Group’shealth programme employees areregularly offered medical check-upsand, should the need arise, rehabilitationprogrammes. As a preventivemeasure the company subsidiseskeep-fit and exercise activities. Incooperation with management, thepersonnel and the supervisoryauthorities, controls are carried outregularly of all workplaces and whennecessary measures to improvehealth and safety are implemented.Industrial Operations’ activitiesare largely carried on in the trafficenvironment. This means that greatattention is paid to safety. In order toimprove safety for contractors’personnel, vehicles are fitted withenergy-absorbing shock absorbers.During 2007 Sweden’s RoadAdministration prepared a “Hand -book for work on roads”, partly as aresult of the attention given to theroad worker’s environment.SafetyIn Sweden the Road Administrationrequires all those conducting abusiness on the national highways tohave undergone training. The trainingis called “Safety on the Road” and isobligatory for contractors. The certi fi -cate issued after passing the traininghas to be renewed after five years.There are similar training courses inother countries in western Europe inwhich Geveko is active, including acorresponding course in Great Britain,“Construction Skills CertificationScheme”, the object of which is tomaintain industry-wide industrialcompetence; the scheme also coversthe area of safety.45