At Taffys, we all have a moral obligation to safeguard each other, our customers and the environment by aspiring to operate a safe, injury free and healthy workplace and to minimize our impact on the environment.
Taffys will comply with all relevant environmental, ethical legislation and approved codes of practice. We recognize that even though the countries we work in maybe developing and differ from the values in developed worlds, although it maybe more challenging, we at Taffys will ALWAYS strive to take a stance and “making it happen” in the right and appropriate manner.
Our core values are:
Making it Happen
Making it Safe
Making it Ethical
Making it Environmentally Friendly
Making it Enjoyable.
To ensure each of us plays our part in reducing the impact of what we do on the global environment, we have developed a common set of behaviours that are being introduced into our team.
Our social and environmental practices are important in embedding sustainability in our supply chain management approach, and the standards we expect from our suppliers are described in our Supply Chain Responsibility Policy. This forms part of a wider set of Supplier Policies.
Ethical Procurement
In regard to ethical procurement, our policy is based on the standards adopted by the UN through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the ILO Conventions.
The standards we apply are as follows:
The law is applied.
We require all colleagues, suppliers & subcontractors to comply with our policy and we reserve the right not to do business with companies where it can be demonstrated that significant violations of the policy exist. In particular, we will not bring companies onto our supplier list where there is evidence of under-age workers; forced, bonded or involuntary prison labour; or where the supplier’s workers are found to be subjected to potential life threatening working conditions or harsh or inhumane treatment.
Environmental Procurement & Sourcing
Our policy supplements Taffys’ internal efforts to help protect and sustain the environment. Our aim is to drive our objectives for sustainable development into the supply chain, and work with our suppliers to help minimise the impact of their activities.
Suppliers are required to:
Comply with all relevant environmental legislation (including but not limited to waste, emissions, and noise), acting in a preventive way to avoid pollution.
Implement corrective action plans and to have programs in place for improving environmental performance.
Taffys will look favourably upon suppliers who:
During the period of any contract we expect suppliers to make all reasonable efforts to support initiatives or targets that Taffys may from time to time introduce where the initiatives are relevant to their area of the Taffys supply chain, e.g. Energy consumption reduction targets.
Examples of how we work to improve the environment and initiatives we encourage are:
