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Sustainability Report 2016
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Strategy Themes
Approaches
Targets for FY2016
FY2016 Progress Update
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
We have added new health and safety
training courses. We have introduced
workplace stretching exercise at
different production floors since July
2015. Health and safety training per
headcount increased by 118.6%
compared with FY2015.
Conduct ergonomic evaluation
on workstation and perform
monthly Environment, Health
and Safety (EHS) internal audit
We have continued to conduct
monthly EHS internal audit and
reinforce the ergonomic technique at
workstation.
Continuously upgrade the
facilities in the living areas of the
factories
We have upgraded the facilities in the
living areas of our factory regularly.
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
The risk registers of key functions have
been updated.
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
We have continued to measure the
suppliers’ sustainability performance
and ensure our suppliers meet our
CSR requirement.
Expand our sustainability
audit scope, develop a more
comprehensive audit structure
and conduct annual audit for all
major suppliers
We have conducted annual audit for
all major suppliers and reviewed our
sustainability audit scope to develop a
more comprehensive audit structure.
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
Our total GHG emission for FY2016
was 103,340 tonnes of CO
2
e. Our
Climate Change policy has been
reviewed and reported on page 36.
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
We had arranged four school visits
in remote area in May 2015 and
built VTech Book Corners in China in
December 2015.
Encourage more employees to
participate in the local charitable
events
We had organised a variety of local
charitable events for employees to
participate and arranged science
exploration tour for local primary
school students.
In FY2016, our volunteer hours
reached 18,291 hours, increase of
9.3% compared with FY2015.
Collaborate with
Local Charities
Sponsor local science
programmes for young people
VTech had provided internship
programme for engineering college
students and co-organised engineering
courses with the local university in
Dec 2015. We are seeking scholarship
opportunities for the course students
in the coming future.
Provide Training
Opportunities for
Young People
Sponsor and support annual
industry events to nourish the
local science environment
We had arranged science exploration
tour for local primary school students.
Nourish an
Innovative
Environment
Promote healthy eating at VTech
canteen
We have provided healthy and organic
fruits that are picked from our organic
farm for employees to enjoy.
Develop
a Healthy
and Green
Community
Promote farming at
manufacturing sites and
participate in local green
activities
In FY2016, we have continued to
promote farming at manufacturing
sites. We also started to collaborate
with local green organisation, such
as People’s Food Bank and Greeners
Action.