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Promon Engenharia joins benchmark group for Ethos social responsibility indicators
Released: July 13, 2010
Ten top-scoring companies out of almost 1,500 seen as embodying best practice in social and environmental spheres
Promon Engenharia, a Promon Group company that specializes in project development, consulting, design, integration and implementation of infrastructure solutions for key economic sectors, has joined the benchmark group for the Ethos social responsibility indicators, consisting of the ten top-scoring companies on this criterion in a universe of some 1,500.
The Ethos indicators serve as a tool for internal use in assessing the company’s overall business performance, and particularly its corporate social responsibility and environmental management practices. The assessment covers seven broad themes: Values, Transparency & Governance, Workforce, Environment, Suppliers, Consumers & Customers, Community, and Government & Society.
“Since 2002 Promon has conducted comparative assessments using the Ethos indicators to measure the stage reached by its social responsibility practices. Our scores have steadily improved all these years, and now we have joined the benchmark group. I believe this reflects Promon’s use of these data as a management tool. We are concerned less with the final score than the processes that enable us to achieve these results,” says Fábio Risério, Manager, Social Responsibility, Promon.
According to Risério, the Ethos indicators enable companies to elaborate a clearer vision of the concepts of social responsibility and sustainability. “Without a benchmark these concepts become vague, and it’s harder for companies to achieve concrete improvements however much they try,” he says. The indicators are also important in disseminating best practices in corporate social responsibility. “A good example is the care Promon takes to foster the implementation of best practices in CSR by its suppliers. Indeed, this is one of the items measured by the Ethos indicators. If you do that, you create a knock-on effect whereby the spread of best practices eventually benefits the whole society,” he says.
The assessment process used to measure the Ethos indicators involves participation by all staff and a wide-ranging reflection on the stage reached by the company in terms of environmental and social responsibility. This process involves professionals in Human Relations, Procurement, Environment, and Communication, among others.
About Promon Engenharia – www.promonengenharia.com.br
Promon Engenharia is part of the Promon Group and was founded in 1960. It is a Brazilian organization recognized for engineering and project management expertise coupled with strong entrepreneurial capacity. Its core business is the design, integration and implementation of complex infrastructure solutions for key economic sectors such as power, oil and gas, process industries, chemicals, petrochemicals, mining, and metallurgy.
In its 50 years of activity, Promon Engenharia has built one of the largest portfolio of projects completed by any Brazilian engineering firm in the infrastructure sector. In this period it has participated in initiatives that have directly contributed to the development of the nation, such as the construction of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, marine terminals, power plants and transmission systems, steel mills, mines, automotive and aircraft manufacturing facilities, telecommunications networks, office buildings, and major rail, road and mass transit systems.
Promon has ranked among the best places to work in Brazil by all 13 editions of the annual survey conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute and is also one of the few companies to figure in every edition of the Guia Exame/Você S.A. yearbook As 150 Melhores Empresas para Você Trabalhar (“The 150 Best Places to Work”). In 2007 it won the National Quality Prize awarded by Fundação Nacional da Qualidade. All these recognitions demonstrate the soundness of its management practices and the success of its business model.
Journalists requiring more information please contact:
A4 Comunicação
Priscilla Tavollassi – priscillatavollassi@a4com.com.br
Elton Frederick – eltonfrederick@a4com.com.br
Tel: +55 11 3897.4122 | +55 11 7152.7689
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