OUR SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES

When environmental sustainability meets improved performance, it’s a win-win. 

The environmental challenges faced today need smart, viable solutions. And as we expand our global presence, it’s vital that our growth is sustainable. Our environmental policy aims at preventing pollution, minimizing energy consumption and waste.

Our “Lean Management” initiative introduced an ongoing performance improvement approach with an emphasis on reducing our carbon footprint by optimizing travel, lessening the use of consumables in our offices and laboratories, and providing ways to reduce the amount of waste.

Planned through 2020, Lean Management is already celebrating success. For example, we optimized inspectors’ routes to job sites, thus minimizing our carbon emissions and travel time.

PROTECTING THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR EMPLOYEES

Our commitment to health and safety starts from within. 

Health and safety are central to our business—and imperative to our culture. For Gulf Lloyds, safety is a non-negotiable priority, without which we could not continue.

Our main objectives:

• Reach zero fatal accidents
• Reduce the frequency of accidents with lost work time and the frequency of all accidents by 10%
• Reduce the accident severity rate by 15%
• Conduct mandatory training for all new arrivals
• Roll out safety and accident prevention campaigns
• Maintain OHSAS 18001 certification for all the entities with employees

HUMAN RESOURCES : OUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET

Our people are at the root of our success and performance.

Our employees proudly serve the general interest by helping to reduce risks and contributing to make the world safer. Bureau Veritas wants to promote this commitment among younger generations who wish to join us and are looking for meaningful careers. We are committed to creating opportunities for skills building, personal development and mobility throughout our employees’ careers, as well as encouraging their ability to innovate.

Our main objectives:

• Nurture talent
• Foster a learning organization
• Grow into an inclusive culture

Nurture talent

We offer a large range of career paths thanks to our broad geographical presence across the world and the diversity of our businesses and sectors of activity.

Foster a learning organization

Training and personal development are key goals of the Group’s HR strategy. It is a mean by which we keep our employees’ expertise aligned with our businesses and reinforce their abilities to innovate to better serve the widening range of our clients’ needs.

Gulf Lloyds is a leading global Total Quality Assurance services provider enabling organizations, across a wide range of sectors, to keep ahead of their emerging sustainability requirements. Through our global network, local knowledge and subject-matter expertise we provide innovative and tailored assurance, testing, inspection and certification services to our customers across their entire value chain.
We are uniquely positioned given our global scale to partner with our customers in meeting their needs in delivering a wide variety of sustainability services that help our customers with increased transparency to manage risk and resilience, whilst supporting their ability to operate effectively and act responsibly. Our customers trust us to ensure quality, safety and sustainability in their business, to protect their brands and to help them gain competitive advantage. We not only provide valuable insight into companies’ current sustainability needs, we identity emerging trends, enabling our customers to manage the circular economy in their business and safeguard their reputation.

At Gulf Lloyds, Sustainability is core to our business and we are constantly evaluating and improving our processes with not only the services we offer our customers but our own business processes and initiatives. Through developing and implementing key programs, Gulf Lloyds’s sustainability strategies aims to minimize the impact of our operations on the environment by understanding and mitigating against our material impacts. Continuously improving policies and practices support our values for a diverse and inclusive global family, committed to professional excellence and the communities in which we operate. At Gulf Lloyds, our people are passionate about their work and are proud to be involved in activities which generate a positive impact for society and the environment.

VALUE TO SOCIETY

We deliver value to society in three ways:

• Sustainability services: we enable our customers to adopt more sustainable business practices and to create more sustainable products, technologies and services
• Corporate sustainability programs: internally, we promote our own social, environmental and economic performance via local and global initiatives
• Engagement activities and external partnerships: we combine our knowledge and expertise to deliver scalable programs, both internally and with external stakeholders, that contribute to sustainable development