Acting as a responsible corporate organisation
is fundamental to the Group’s operations. We’re
continually investing in sustainable products and
looking to increase the number of our plants that
carry environmental and safety certifications,
such as ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.
We’re fully committed to working in a way
that minimises our impact on the environment,
with formalised testing and reporting systems
for the energy and water we consume in our
production and delivery processes – as well as
the quantity of hazardous waste we produce.
With the aim of clearly stating the importance we
place on social responsibility, the Group guarantees
an account of its ethical and socioeconomic
performance with the production of an annual
Sustainability Report, inspired by the Global
Reporting Initiative’s internationally recognised
G3 Guidelines for sustainability reporting.
This represents an important step in improving
our performance in the Corporate Social
Responsibility field, in line with the Group’s
status as a public company.
The Group also recognises its social
responsibility by supporting public interest
projects. These initiatives vary in nature and
extent, and range from support for cultural
and training schemes to the building
of infrastructure.
Included among those are the promotion
of clean energy alongside ‘Friends of the
Supergrid’ and ‘Medgrid’; support for FORCE
in the world’s largest tidal power generation
project; partnership with Worldskills as it
promotes education and training in developing
countries; and close collaboration with the
UMAN Foundation, which is furthering
creative innovation in Italy.
A PASSION FOR THE PLANET
In the context of the on-going ISO 14001
certification program, at the end of 2011
the certified units accounted for about
80% of the Prysmian production facilities.
At the end of 2011 about 40% of facilities
had obtained the certification against
the OHSAS 18001 international standard.
