Sustainable Development

Our primary aim is protecting people. The very nature of our business drives our commitment to behave as a responsible corporate citizen and to contribute to ongoing quality of life. Our development strategy is founded both on offering a healthier and safer workplace to millions of people, and also on preserving the quality of the environment where they live and work.

Our long term development is supported by policies that address social responsibilities and environmental issues.
We continuously target ethical growth, the workplace safety of our employees, careful use of water, energy and raw materials.

Our human resources and environmental policies are designed to develop local personal development programs for employees, environmental protection and local participation.

• Putting people first
  We aim to foster employees’ personal growth, in the interests of both our organization and the workers themselves, by creating an environment where individual competence is visibly recognized, and where they are encouraged to act as team-players.
  Our Group is committed to providing a healthy, risk-free workplace, regularly upgrading worldwide working and safety conditions in line with host-country workplace safety legislation, with health and safety audits and training to raise employee awareness.
  Sperian Protection is committed to growth that respects the ethical principles set out in our internal guidelines which provide a Code of Business Conduct for employees of every nationality and culture across the Group.
  The diversity of Sperian’s workforce drives our human-centric culture. As an equal opportunity employer, the Group is wholly committed to non-discrimination on the grounds of race, creed, national origin, ancestry, gender, age, health, or any other conditions.

• Corporate citizenship
  Sperian is committed to acting as a responsible corporate citizen wherever we operate, making a point of participating in local community life and recruiting from local labour pools. We reinvest in the local economy of host communities by directly and indirectly creating jobs and implementing corporate social responsibility programs.
  All employees are encouraged to become involved in local activities, and regularly take part in environmental, solidarity and sponsorship programs. An increasing number of local initiatives demonstrate our employees’ commitment to helping others, including product donation, volunteering labor, advice, expertise and money, and other programs supporting education or sustainable development. Sperian Protection also contributes to important national and international causes, providing personal protection equipment after major natural disasters such as forest fires (West coast of the US, Australia), or earthquakes (in China, the Group responded to the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan by donating more than 170,000 respiratory masks to the local Red Cross to protect teams assisting victims).

• Environmental policies
  Even though our production processes have low impact on surrounding ecosystems and consume little energy, our Group carefully monitors our environmental footprint and our use of water, energy and raw materials.
  Our recycling policy is one of our ecological priorities and our industrial waste is generally sent to accredited recycling specialists. We are committed to reducing the use of natural resources in our production processes and most of our manufacturing operations involve environmentally-friendly manual assembly.
  Our policies for identifying, monitoring, measuring, controlling and reducing risks are based on international practices and recognized standards.