Our Corporate social responsibility (CSR) means that we take account of the impacts of our activities on the environment, society, and the economy. Our stakeholders include our clients as well as our employees, suppliers, communities and society as a whole. Our aim is to embed CSR into everything we do and to be a responsible company.

This policy is structured around 4 aims:

 

1. To maintain strong business ethics, including anti-bribery and anti-corruption

2. To manage our environmental impacts.

3. To promote sustainable development through our procurement practices.

4. To encourage our staff to be active citizens, committed to high performance and continuous improvement.

Aim 1: To maintain strong business ethics including anti-bribery and anti-corruption

We want to continue to be a company that provides the highest levels of service by embodying high ethical standards and engendering mutual trust and respect among our stakeholders.

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We will achieve this through:

• meeting, and where possible, exceeding all relevant legal requirements

• behaving with honesty and integrity in all our activities and relationships with others

• acting ethically and fairly at all times in our dealings with our stakeholders

• Maintain internal controls that are adequate to ensure standards are met.

• Specialist Lift Services Ltd has a zero tolerance of bribery and corruption.  We will actively avoid doing business and being involved or associated with others who will not commit to conducting business without bribery and corruption.

The Bribery Act 2010 makes it an offence :

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• To offer, promise or give a Bribe (definition of a Bribe is the offering, promising, giving, accepting or soliciting of an advantage as an inducement for an action which is illegal, the improper performance of a function or activity or is a breach of trust).   

• To request, agree to receive or accept a bribe, whether in the public or private sector.

• To bribe a foreign public official.

• For a company to fail to put in place adequate procedures to prevent bribery.

• This policy extends to all the business dealings and transactions of the Company.

 

Aim 2: To manage our environmental impacts

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We want to continue to be a company that improves its environmental performance continually, prevents pollution, and complies with, and where possible exceeds, applicable environmental legislation.

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We will do this through:

• maintaining our certification to ISO 14001 (an international environmental management system standard)

• making the most efficient and effective use of all resources, encouraging all staff to develop a sustainable approach to their work

• minimising carbon emissions from business travel by avoiding unnecessary travel and travelling by public transport unless there are reasons why this is not practicable or if there are circumstances where travel by public transport would impede efficiency or effectiveness

• identifying and implementing cost-effective measures to reduce energy and water consumption

• reducing the amount of waste generated and disposed to landfill through a waste minimisation and recycling programme

• managing our grounds in an environmentally and biodiversity- sensitive manner.

 

Aim 3: To promote sustainable development through our procurement practices.

We want to continue to be a company where are procurement practices deliver value for money.

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We will do this through:

• implementing our sustainable and socially responsible procurement policy that includes consideration of CSR in all evaluations of tenders.

• working with our suppliers to help us achieve our sustainable and socially responsible procurement policy aspirations in the delivery of our products and services.

Aim 4: To encourage our staff to be active citizens, committed to high performance and continuous improvement

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Our continued success depends on the expertise, talent, interpersonal skills and proactivity of our people. To be regarded as effective we need to be responsive to, and trusted by, our stakeholders. We aspire to empower and appreciate each other and operate with the principles of fairness and integrity at all times.

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We will seek to achieve this through the following aims:

• promote a company culture that embodies our ethos and values

• have an approach to human resource management that supports the delivery of SLS’s strategy within a continually evolving environment and is based on the company’s overarching principles

• attract and retain high calibre people

• enable people to achieve their full potential in delivering SLS’s success, and encourage creativity and innovation in appropriate circumstances

• provide people with a healthy, safe working environment in which individuals are treated with respect.