Environment and quality

Values and Business Principles

Wulff Supplies wants to ensure that the products we offer our customers and partners are manufactured according to ethically acceptable principles. The code of conduct states our minimum standard. The goal is to constantly improve the working environment and working conditions from an ethical and social perspective. The code of conduct applies to the entire company and to suppliers and subcontractors who manufacture and handle products for Wulff Supplies. The code defines the fundamental rights of employees and is based on the ILO Convention.

Ethics and Morals

Wulff Supplies’ concept of good business practice, honesty, integrity and responsibility must be maintained, and any involvement in bribes, extortion and corruption will not be tolerated in any form by Wulff Supplies.

Wulff Supplies will pursue its activities in accordance with applicable laws and ordinances and will also refrain from signing non-competition agreements.

Partnerships

Customers

It must be simple to be a customer of Wulff Supplies. We must do our utmost to ensure that customers perceive Wulff Supplies as a company they can rely on. Customer relationships must be based on business benefit.

We carry out systematic quality work and follow an internationally recognized quality management system, ISO 9001. We will take the initiative in dialogue with our customers when following up on how well we have managed to satisfy customer needs. Customer viewpoints will be treated as a source of improvements.

All sales and marketing of products or services must fulfil all agreed and legal norms in each country. Our marketing communications must be customer-oriented, support the business and create a positive image of the group.

Suppliers

Within the fields where Wulff Supplies has an influence, the group must strive to ensure that suppliers and subcontractors follow the relevant principles of this code of conduct.

Wulff Supplies will maintain suitable processes for assessing and selecting priority suppliers and partners.

We must continuously develop business relationships with our suppliers in order to create benefit for customers and availability for all users of our services.

Products

Wulff Supplies chooses products that combine good environmental properties with the right level of quality. By structuring the choice of products and coordinating volumes together with key customers, environmental products are created that do not need to be more expensive than other products.

Employees

Freedom of association

Where local or applicable laws permit, all employees must have the right to form, join or refuse to join unions and be entitled to collective negotiations where they are employees of Wulff Supplies.

Forced labour and other forced work

No form of forced labour or other forced work will be tolerated by Wulff Supplies and all employees are entitled to terminate their employment in accordance with agreements or local laws.

Human rights and child labour

Wulff Supplies supports and respects international laws regarding human rights and thereby ensures that the company is not party to human rights abuses.

Wulff Supplies must not be party to any form of child labour or other forms of child exploitation. No person should be employed until after they have completed compulsory schooling or until age 15, and no person under the age of 18 is permitted to take part in risky work within Wulff Supplies.

Working environment and safety

Wulff Supplies will provide a working environment for all employees that is healthy, safe and in accordance with international norms and local laws. Individual checks will be carried out for all employees of Wulff Supplies at least once a year.

Each employee must take responsibility for ensuring that work is carried out in a safe way, and must actively contribute to ensuring that our shared working environment is safe. Health work should consist of the following elements:

• promoting employee health

• preventing poor health and accidents

• rehabilitating employees during and after absences due to ill health

No employee may carry out work or remain in the workplace under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. Employees with alcohol and/or drug-related problems are themselves responsible for seeking help, either privately or via the occupational health service. Each manager has responsibility for dealing with abuse-related issues in a humane way.

Discrimination

Diversity among Wulff Supplies’ employees is a positive factor and no person should be treated differently due to race, skin color, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, parental status, marital status, pregnancy, religion, political affiliation, ethnic background, social origin, social position, age, union membership or disability. Harassment, in the form of physical or psychological mistreatment, will not be tolerated within Wulff Supplies, nor will any form of threat.

Training plan

All employees must have the knowledge required to carry out their duties as assigned by Wulff Supplies. The need for training will be clarified in personal and annual employee reviews between the employee and their immediate manager. The content of this code of conduct is part of the induction program for all new employees. The latest version can be downloaded and is available to all employees.

Environment - sustainable development

Sustainable development is a key concept for Wulff Supplies and any waste of resources should be avoided as far as possible. Wulff Supplies supports innovative development of products and services that offer environmental benefits and promote greater environmental responsibility.

Wulff Supplies works towards resource-efficient use of materials, which involves better utilization of materials and energy. Wulff Supplies also takes a preventive approach towards environmental challenges and is working actively to ensure that current materials are gradually replaced by more environmentally friendly ones, and that hazardous substances are avoided where suitable and more environmentally friendly substances are available.

Environmental work is structured and follows an internationally recognized environmental management system, ISO 14001.

This place demands on both us and our suppliers/subcontractors.

Wulff Supplies is working actively on combining focused environmental work with total cost reduction throughout the product chain. We are therefore combining a strong market force for Wulff Supplies with social responsibility and a minimized burden on the environment.

Social commitment

Each individual company within the Wulff Supplies group will strive to establish good relationships in the local communities in which they are active. Business decisions that may be assumed to impact on society at large must, if possible, always be preceded by, or as soon as possible be followed by, discussions with society’s representatives in order to identify any needs for common action.

The Wulff Supplies group will remain politically neutral and will not contribute direct funds to any political parties or candidates.

Our sponsorship partnerships must benefit both the sponsored organisation and Wulff Supplies. Sponsorship grants may not be promised, offered or given to events organised by persons or organisations whose aims are incompatible with Wulff Supplies’ code of conduct or which would damage Wulff Supplies’ reputation.