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To ensure our future and secure our 'license to operate', we want our operations to be not only profitable but also socially acceptable. As part of this social commitment, we endorse the obligations formulated in the chemical industry’s international Responsible Care Programme.
- We are keenly aware of our responsibility for the environment and we endorse the importance of sustainable entrepreneurship. To us, in our corporate role, this means conducting our activities in a way that meets today’s needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
- Our choice of production processes and products is guided by our commitment to promoting sustain-ability and safety. We exercise great prudence in developing new technologies, taking public opinion seriously into account. Moreover, in line with our policy of transparency and openness, we provide our customers and the general public with clear information about our products and production processes.
- We make an ongoing effort to minimize the use of raw materials and energy in our production processes.
- We continually evaluate and improve our working methods, production processes, products and services so as to ensure that they are safe and acceptable from the point of view of our employees, our customers, the public at large and the environment.
- We abide by the laws and regulations in force. If these leave room for practices that clash with the DSM Values, employees are required to report this to company management.
- Our employees are aware of and show respect for local traditions and customs.
- Our employees are prohibited from seeking to influence the political decision making process by granting favours or giving gifts
- In emergency situations such as natural disasters and public disturbances, we give top priority to the safety of our employees and residents living near our production sites.
- We encourage our employees to adopt a civic-minded and socially responsible attitude.
- Our employees are to avoid even the suggestion of a conflict of interest between their official functions on behalf of the company and their conduct as private citizens that might compromise their integrity in their official capacity or compromise the integrity of the company.
- DSM employees who possess 'inside information' are prohibited from dealing in or recommending that third parties deal in DSM securities. Employees who through DSM have non-public information about other companies are likewise prohibited from dealing in shares of those companies.
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