Sustainability Report 2015
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Strategy Themes
Approaches
Targets for FY2016
Targets for FY2020
Workplace
Quality
Environment for
Our People
Provide a supportive, pleasant
and healthy workplace for
our staff, and foster a caring
community in our working
environment
Add new health and safety
training courses and introduce
workplace stretching exercise
to all workers
Maintain the loss of working
hours due to injuries in
manufacturing facilities at or
below 0.01%
Conduct ergonomic
evaluation on workstation and
perform monthly Environment,
Health and Safety (EHS)
internal audit
Zero work related fatality case
Continuously upgrade the
facilities in the living areas of
the factories
Maintain employee
satisfaction at or above
average level based on the
employee satisfaction survey
Sustainable
Operating
Practices
Business
Continuity
Management
Mitigate the potential operational
risks and increase our resilience
capability to resume the
operation in an effective and
timely basis
Annual risk registry update
and assessment
Annual risk registry update
and assessment
Supply Chain
Management
and
Procurement
Practice
Manage our supply chain in a
socially and environmentally
responsible manner and source
from approved suppliers
who meet our VTech’s CSR
requirements
Measure suppliers’
sustainability performance
Ensure our suppliers meet
our CSR standards
Expand our sustainability
audit scope, develop a more
comprehensive audit structure
and conduct annual audit for
all major suppliers
Develop an e-procurement
platform to interact with
suppliers in a more consistent
and eco-friendly manner
Climate Change
Policy
Ensure our business strategies
are not only accounted for
longer term trajectory of
climate change, but also
sufficiently flexible to respond
to the inevitable changes in the
business environment
Disclose our total GHG
emissions annually and review
VTech’s Climate Change
Policy with reference to
the international and local
standards
Disclose our total GHG
emissions annually and
review VTech’s Climate
Change Policy with reference
to the international and local
standards
Community
Investment
Support People
in Need
Use our expertise and resources
to support the communities in
which we operate
Arrange more voluntary
programmes for the local
communities especially in
remote areas of the countries
Increase the total number of
VTech volunteers to 2,000
and total voluntary hours by
10%
Collaborate with
Local Charities
Encourage more employees
to participate in the local
charitable events
Collaborate with corporate
philanthropies and participate
in more local charitable
events
Provide Training
Opportunities for
Young People
Sponsor local science
programmes for young
people
Sponsor local science
activities for young people
and provide science
scholarship for local technical
institutes
Nourish an
Innovative
Environment
Sponsor and support annual
industry events to nourish the
local science environment
Establish funding for
innovative technology
research and science studies
Develop
a Healthy
and Green
Community
Promote healthy eating at
VTech canteen
Provide (weekly) healthy
menu for employees to
choose at VTech canteen
Promote farming at
manufacturing sites and
participate in local green
activities
Organise VTech green day (in
all operation locations)
