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Our global presence
As we operate in countries where compliance
with human rights, occupational health and
safety, environmental and climate protection
as well as anti-corruption are not necessarily
a given due to existing culture and legislation,
we are aware of the risk that AVK’s values are
violated.
Because of this, we focus on compliance with
our Policies in all AVK companies, and we
support this effort with ongoing audits of our
ISO-systems. The most significant risks will be
assessed in the following sections.
Environment and climate
We estimate that the main risk within climate
is a lack of attention to minimising energy
consumption. In addition, it is important to
focus on material use and waste management
so that the local environment is not
unnecessarily burdened and that we work even
more with circular economy.
To minimise our climate impact, we
have developed an environmental and
climate strategy. We also comply with our
environmental policy by continuously working
to minimise our environmental and climate
impact of the AVK Group and our suppliers. We
elaborate further in the section on environment
and climate.
Human Rights
It is our assessment that the risk of human
rights non-compliance may be highest with
our sub-suppliers, including forced labour
and lack of equal rights. That is why we work
systematically on registration, control, follow-up,
and further development of the collaboration.
This is elaborated on in the section ”Our
governance”.
Anti-corruption and bribery
As a global Group, we assess corruption risks
in the countries in which we operate. AVK
does not accept any kind of action that may be
considered corruption or bribery. We have zerotolerance for such incidents and consider it a
gross misconduct that may result in disciplinary
actions. We have a compliance agreement
with the management in the AVK Group with
requirements of compliance with national
and international laws on anti-corruption and
bribery. We will address this in the section ”Our
governance”.
Employee relations
As an industrial Group of companies with
numerous production facilities, we consider
work-related accidents a significant risk
and hence a high priority area. Additionally,
individual companies within AVK will also
pay attention to mental health and safety.
Find out more about initiatives in both areas
in this report, under the section ”Social
Responsibility”.
The AVK Sustainability Policy
We recognise that our global presence
requires high ethical standards throughout
our organisation and in all our actions.
We want to be a responsible and credible
company with the ability to balances
economic, environmental, and social
matters.
This means that:
• The AVK Group supports the UN
Sustainable Development Goals. Our main
area of attention is the goals relating
to clean water and sanitation (6) and
industry, innovation, and infrastructure
(9) as these areas represent our
core business. In addition, AVK also
contributes to other goals. We consider
SDG 17, on partnerships for sustainable
development, to be crucial to achieving
the other SDGs.
• We ensure that sustainable initiatives
are fundamental to our production
and that we have a healthy and safe
working environment. We focus on the
environment and long-lasting solutions
and have achieved certifications that we
are proud of:
• ISO 9001 – Quality management
• ISO 29001 – Quality management in
the oil and gas industry
• ISO 14001 – Environmental
management
• ISO 45001 – Occupational health
and safety
• ISO 50001 – Energy managementt
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