Annual Report Sustainable Development Report ... - Groupe SEB

ETHICAL
Priorities
Involvement of all
employees in the Group's
ethical approach
CORPORATE
Improvement of health &
safety at work
Promotion of diversity
Priorities and action plans for the next three years
Working objectives
Employee awareness of our
commitments under the Global
Compact, the CECED Code of
Conduct and the Diversity Charter.
Apply these commitments in the
Group's day-to-day operations
Development of Introduce a Group-wide Fair
management methods in Process management reference
keeping with our framework.
corporate values
Support for employees
affected by industrial
reorganization
SOCIAL
Structuring the Group's
sponsorship strategy
Adopt a monthly reporting system
and define priorities for progress.
Draw up an action plan to cut work
accidents and industrial illness
(repetetive strain injury).
Ensure greater diversity in
working teams.
Ensure that necessary job-cuts are
carried out with every
consideration for the individuals
concerned.
Anticipate restructuring and use
training to enhance future
employability.
Combat social exclusion with
projects in harmony with the
Group's values and working
context.
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Main achievements
in 2005
Staff informed via the Group's
various in-house media.
Commitments included in
purchasing conditions, and initial
application of internal control
procedures.
Reporting system introduced
for the French sites.
Recommendations made by
an ad hoc working Group.
France: Diversity Charter signed.
Proposals for action drawn up by
staff representatives.
Fair Process awareness drive for
management, and start of
'180°–evaluations' for managers.
Spain: individual support given to
staff affected by the Barbastro
and Urnieta plant closures. Re-use
of the factories by new owners.
France: partnership with the
Habitat et Humanisme aid
association.
Brazil: new community education
project for the unemployed in
deprived areas (Arno).
Next steps
To strengthen this awareness and
monitor its impact.
To draw up a master document on
the Group's ethical approach.
To highlight these commitments in
our internal control procedures.
Group-wide quarterly reporting on
frequency and gravity of industrial
accidents, and reduction of these
by half.
To train and mobilize local
management and implement
our action plan.
To implement the Diversity
Charter .
Adoption of Fair Process by
managers worldwide and
integration into annual evaluation
interviews.
To use every possible means
to limit the social impact
of restructuring.
To build up existing social
partnerships and create new ones.
To initiate new projects,
particularly in training and
education.
To explore a Group sponsorship
structure.