Our Business Principles bar employees from accepting gifts, hospitality, bribes or other inducements that encourage or reward a business decision.
Our rules stipulate the need for honesty in all our dealings and an understanding that we keep to our commitments. Our employees are asked to declare conflicts of interest that may lead to divided loyalties.
As part of our commitment to meet our ethical standards, we encourage our suppliers to refer directly to our Business Principles and expect them to meet the same standards.
Our rule is to award business solely on merit and without favouritism.
Our ethical procurement policy is based on the Ethical Trading Initiative Base Code, the standards of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labour Organisation conventions. We expect our suppliers to keep to our policies and neither to rely on forced labour, nor to use child workers, nor to apply harsh or inhumane practices, but to pay living wages, to offer acceptable working hours, and to provide safe and healthy working conditions.
