Environment, Health & Safety
The ECCO Group’s Policy for Environment, Health & Safety
The ECCO Code of Conduct states in one of the 10 commitments that ’ECCO aims to be a leading company in the area of environment, health and safety and aims to promote sustainable development’. This targets all ECCO’s activities and business units since ECCO owns the whole value chain from tanneries and shoe factories to sales subsidiaries and shops. In this way, the ECCO Group controls the whole process from rawhides to the consumer.
External Environment
The ECCO Group’s objective is actively to minimize the environmental impact taking technological and financial conditions into consideration. To ensure an appropriate environmental development, all ECCO business units shall continuously:
- Promote the four R’s: Reduce, Re-use, Repair, Recycle.
- Optimize the use of raw materials and energy and keep consumption of resources and waste to a minimum.
- Contribute to the global climate strategy by focusing on the company’s CO2 impact (’Carbon footprint’).
- Minimize and – wherever possible – substitute the content of harmful chemical substances in ECCO products.
This is based on the relevant legislation in the markets where ECCO products are sold and on the
international recognised SG list.
- Train and educate employees to minimize the environmental impact.
The continuous development is followed and promoted by key performance indicators (KPI’s), which are determined on an annual basis.
Health & Safety
The ECCO Group’s most important resource is its employees. The ECCO Group wishes to promote and strengthen a physically, psychologically and socially healthy working
environment for all employees. This is among other things done by actively involving employees in preventing work accidents and by minimizing health and safety impact for all employees. To ensure an appropriate development in terms of health and safety issues, all ECCO business units shall continuously:
- Reduce health and safety impact for the individual employee to a minimum.
- Minimize and – wherever possible – substitute the use of harmful, chemical substances in the production processes.
- Strengthen, prevent and improve health and safety impact to prevent any kind of work accident and avoid repetition.
- Ensure the employees’ job satisfaction and health at the workplace.
- Establish one or more organisations to handle health and safety issues and hereby ensure a high level of employee involvement.
- Train and educate employees to ensure an optimum working environment.
Involvement & dialogue
The ECCO Group will engage the employees in environmental, health and safety issues by means of information, training and education. It rests on the employee to take responsibility and make an active effort aiming at continuous improvement of environmental, health and safety issues.
The ECCO Group will openly co-operate with authorities, customers and neighbours and at all times observe the legislation related to environmental, health and safety issues. The ECCO Group will on a yearly basis re-assess the ECCO Group’s Policy for Environment, Health & Safety.