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Risk Management and Sustainability Committee
Sustainability Sub-Committees
Product Responsibility & Innovation
• Design products for the well-being of people and for the benefits of society
• Design products to ensure that they are of good quality and compliant with the highest safety standards
• Incorporate sustainability concepts into our product design
Environmental Protection
• High Performance Production Chain – maximise our resources efficiency and improve productivity
• Green Manufacturing Practice – minimise the environmental impacts from our operations
• Sustainable Logistic Chain – improve operational efficiency and reduce carbon emissions throughout the
transportation process
Workplace Quality
• Enhance our good staff relations through various communication channels and staff activities
• Foster a continuous learning environment and encourage employees to develop and advance their careers in
VTech
• Respect the labour and human rights of all our employees with clearly defined human resources management
policies
• Provide a supportive, pleasant and healthy environment for our employees
Sustainable Operating Practices
• Business Continuity Management – identify and mitigate our potential operational risks and increase our
resilience capability
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management – manage our supply chain in a socially and environmentally
responsible manner and source from approved suppliers who meet VTech’s Corporate Social Responsibility
requirements
• Climate Change Strategy – minimise the carbon emissions from our operations, and work closely with our
suppliers and customers through enhancing our environmentally friendly product designs and sustainable
operating practice
Community Investment
• Use our expertise and resources to develop community investment programmes focusing on:
– Supporting people in need
– Collaborating with local charities
– Providing training opportunities for young people
– Nourishing an innovative environment
– Developing a healthy and green community
VTech’s Sustainability Management
At VTech, our RMSC provides
vision and strategic direction for our
sustainability activities to ensure that
we stay on track and in balance with
the three sustainability dimensions of
economic, environmental and social
impacts at all times. The RMSC
is also responsible for reviewing
our sustainability strategies and
improvement activities, assessing
how the policies are implemented
in achieving the sustainability goals
and targets, and monitoring the
performance progress on a biannual
basis. We also have an escalation
investments from economic,
environmental and social aspects, and
sharing new and significant industry
sustainability concerns with the
committee members on a biannual
basis.
In order to ensure that our sustainability
strategies are carried our effectively and
consistently throughout the Company,
we have organised our sustainability
approach into the five key areas across
the Company’s product lines with the
following missions:
process in place to ensure that any
identified issues are dealt with at the
appropriate level of the Company.
Our RMSC has also formed the
Sustainability Sub-Committees
comprising key employees from the
Company’s different product lines and
relevant departments. Our Sustainability
Sub-Committees are responsible
for monitoring the progress of our
sustainability activities compared with
targets in their responsible product
lines and functions, evaluating
and determining the sustainability