Exercising a high degree of business integrity in all aspects of how the company goes about its business is vital to Grontmij.
All our home markets have codes of conduct in place covering aspects such as our responsibility to society, professional and management skills, integrity, impartiality, fairness and corruption.
Code of conduct
A new group-wide code of conduct conforming to the guidelines in the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) Business Integrity Management System (BIMS) has been adopted. These requirements will be rolled out in 2009 across the group as each country adopts a code of conduct in line with the overall group code. Global CompactIn relation to human rights, the Danish arm of Grontmij was one of the first members of the Global Compact, the United Nations’ initiative to promote human rights and the millennium goals. To show our commitment to this intiative in June 2009 we widened our membership of the Global Compact to encompass the whole Grontmij Group.
Policies within Grontmij
Through this membership we demonstrate our support for the UN’s human rights policies. In 2009, we also intend to adopt a human rights and equal opportunity policy for Grontmij. The importance of attention to business integrity is stressed in our day-to-day business. For instance during all board meetings the topic of integrity is addressed. Likewise, integrity issues are openly debated with new staff to underline expected behaviour.