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CIMIC Group Limited Annual Report 2016 |
Sustainability Report
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ACTING WITH INTEGRITY
Measures in place
Actions during 2016
Performance
- Code of Conduct available to all
employees
- Group Code Of Conduct – Management,
Monitoring and Reporting Policy in
place which includes comprehensive
protection for whistleblowers
- Refreshed Code of Conduct and
associated training modules
- Issued new Procurement Policy and
Procedures which integrates
sustainability and issued rigorous
‘Dealing with Third Parties Procedure’
- 3,124 people acknowledged having read
the refreshed Code of Conduct
- 4,924 employees across the Group
undertook formal on-line Code of
Conduct training including the refreshed
module released in December 2016
- 2,513 operational employees
participated in a pre-start or toolbox
Code of Conduct training session
- 1,576 employees participated in high
risk role workshops
- Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy in
place
- Continued to communicate Policy to
employees and maintained focus on
Code training
- No instances of significant fines or
sanctions for non-compliance with
Australian and international laws and
regulations during the year
- Group-wide independent Ethics Line
available for reporting
- Changed Ethics Line provider
- 23 calls made to the ‘Ethics Line’
(including 10 related to human
resources). Matters were dealt with
internally by the Reportable Conduct
Group, under the supervision of the
ECSC
- Anti-Bullying, Harassment and
Discrimination Policy in place
- Diversity and Inclusion Policy in place
- Implemented Group Equal Employment
Opportunity, Discrimination, Bullying &
Harassment training. Released in Q416
- To date 209 employees across the
Group undertook face to face training.
The roll out of training across all
employees of the Group will be an
ongoing initiative in 2017
- Leadership development and succession
planning programs in place
- Held executive leadership conference
with a focus on ‘leading with principle’
reinforcing our principles in action
- Attendance of all Group executive
leadership teams
- Ensuring Code of Conduct available to
all Sedgman employees.
- Introduction and implementation of
Group Principles to Sedgman as an
Operating Company
- No significant breaches of Code
- Continuous Disclosure Policy in place
- Privacy Policy in place
- Not applicable
- No breaches of continuous disclosure
and the Group is unaware of any
substantiated complaints regarding
breaches of privacy by clients or other
stakeholders
OUR APPROACH
We expect our people to act with integrity - honestly and respectfully – with their colleagues, and in all relationships with the Group’s
stakeholders including our clients, suppliers, shareholders and the community.
The Group Code of Conduct sets the foundation for the way we work every day. It is important for each employee – as an individual - and
unites us as one company. The Code is underpinned by our principles of Integrity, Accountability, Innovation and Delivery, and outlines
the standards of behaviour we expect, regardless of Operating Company, role or location. This Code applies to CIMIC directors and all
employees of the Group, and all alliances and joint ventures in all jurisdictions. The Group seeks to have third parties engaged by the
Group agree to abide by their own code (containing equivalent standards of behaviour) or, if they do not have one, the Group Code.
Where the Code or a policy sets higher standards of behaviour than local laws, rules, customs or norms, the higher standards will apply.
The Code provides a framework, but cannot describe every situation, law or policy that may apply. We expect our people to exercise
good judgement, justify their actions, and try to prevent any potential breaches.
We refreshed the Code of Conduct in 2016 to make it easier to read and deployed new online training to employees at the end of the
year. The Code of Conduct training has been translated into local languages to reflect the communities in which we operate.
AVOIDING BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION
The Group prohibits, and has zero tolerance for, all forms of bribery and corruption. Our people must obey all relevant laws and
regulations, and must not participate in any arrangement which gives any person an improper benefit or an unfair advantage to any
party, directly or through an intermediary. This includes facilitation payments (payments of cash or in kind made to secure or expedite a
routine service, or to ‘facilitate’ a routine Government action), even if allowed under local laws or customs.
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