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Strategy Themes
Approaches
Targets for FY2017
FY2017 progress update
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. Raise the
awareness of information
security and privacy amongst
our employees at all level
through related training
programmes
The risk registers of key functions have
been updated. We have been conducting
information security and privacy training
programmes.
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 continued to measure the suppliers’
sustainability performance and ensure our
suppliers meet our CSR requirement.
Review our sustainability audit
scope 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 standard
Our total GHG emission for FY 2017
was 102,455 tonnes CO
2
e. Our Climate
Change policy has been reviewed and
reported on page 36.
Support People
in Need
Use our expertise and resources
to support the communities in
which we operate
Set up Volunteers Service
Centre at our manufacturing site
and provide relative volunteer
trainings
We have identified a location to set up
the Volunteers Service Centre at our ELP
manufacturing site. The renovation is
expected to be completed in FY2018.
Continue to encourage more
employees to participate in local
charitable events
We have been organising a large variety
of local charitable events for employees.
Collaborate
with Local
Charities
Collaborate with local colleges
to establish manufacturing
courses for local engineering
students
VTech had provided internship
programme for engineering college
students and co-organised engineering
courses with the local university in
FY2017.
Training for
Young People
Organise various advanced
manufacturing workshops
with schools and colleges and
identify any potential innovative
technology research and studies
We had arranged plant tour for local
secondary school students in FY2017.
Nourish an
Innovative
Environment
Continue to promote healthy
eating at VTech canteen
We have provided healthy and organic
fruits that are picked from our organic
farm for our employees.
Develop
a Healthy
and Green
Community
Organised different recycling
workshops
We have organised different recycling
workshops for our employees.
Sustainable
Operating
Practices
Community
Investment