Assessment of corporate culture in relation to CSR. Survey employee attitudes and adherence to company policy.
Review employment conditions, particularly health and safety, to ensure that employees are motivated to give of their best.
Identify schemes and appropriate training to increase employee awareness of CSR issues.
Identification of opportunities for employees to make a contribution to the wider community in which your business operates.
Environment
Audit activities against existing statutory environmental legislation.
Selection of appropriate criteria against which to audit.
Sustainability audits in all the following fields:
o Energy.
o Carbon footprint.
o Water.
o Life cycle assessment.
o Cradleà cradle.
o Recycling.
o Waste minimisation.
o Recovery and reuse of raw materials.
o Renewable and green energy.
o Energy from waste.
o Raw materials.
o Packaging materials – sustainability and recycling / disposal.
o Transportation and freight.
Review the potential for non statutory standards, practices and schemes to enhance your business, for example:
o ISO quality and environmental standards.
o Good environmental practice.
o Identification of relevant supply chain initiatives, industry groups.
o Opportunities for third party recognition through awards.
Community
Identify opportunities for your business to make a contribution to local community projects and initiatives.
Where appropriate help to organise events, such as open days, and produce literature to demonstrate your company’s achievements to the local community.
Organisation of publicity campaigns to promote your company’s environmental and ethical credentials.
Business Ethics
Audits of the supply chain to ensure that human rights and ethical business practices are being followed rigorously.
Researching international guidelines to ensure that all relevant standards are being met along the supply chain.
Identifying schemes with the potential to reinforce the company’s human rights stance to the general public.
Help to develop promotional messages, such as ethical supply chains, to maximise returns.
Stakeholder Engagement
Independent reviews and surveys of stakeholder opinion (postal, personal, telephone etc according to needs) designed to engage stakeholders and to allow them to make a positive contribution to CSR policy:
o Fair trade.
o Organic.
o Suppliers and supply chain.
o Consumers.
o Product labelling.
Translation of scientific reports into believable and valid stakeholder messages and reports.
DELIVERABLES
· Recommendations and guidance to establish or further develop a CSR policy.
· Long term strategy plan with costing and activities for maintenance.
· Horizon-scan of what will be necessary in 1, 5 and 10 years due to new legislation and trends.
· Recommendations on the optimal output for the work to be done (pain / gain) – cost benefit analysis.
· Setting of CSR targets.
· Development of a management strategy to meet expectations of senior management and board.
· Report on your benchmark against competitors and market leaders.
· Report and recommendations on current employee commitment to CSR.
· Recommendations on specific training for senior and junior employees to raise awareness of CSR policy.
· Organisation of events to increase awareness of CSR policy.
· Recommendations of opportunities for participation in community projects.
· Client-specific audit reports with benchmarking and recommendations to improve environmental performance in all relevant fields.
· CSR publicity packages to suit target audiences.
· Independent report describing how your company is addressing ethical issues.
· Specific reports targeted at stakeholders that will be useful as a marketing tool:
o Company’s Board.
o Shareholders.
o Consumers.
o Suppliers.
o Pressure groups.