Social Responsibility
We are certified in accordance with ISO 45001, an international standard for occupational health and safety. Our structured work environment management enables us to take laws, risks and opportunities into consideration to prevent accidents. We encourage well-regulated working conditions throughout the value chain, thus making a positive contribution to social development in the places in which we operate and have our partners.
For us at NC it is important that all components in a product are produced in a fair manner, no worker in the supply chain should have poor working conditions. Therefore we set high demands on our suppliers. They should follow the UN Global Compact – principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.
The suppliers to 82% of our purchases are evaluated with low risk
...of violating requrements in UN Global Compact
We have ambitious preventive work with our supply chain. In addition to the primary work with our direct suppliers, we also work to risk identify the producers of the individual components with the help of certificates, self-evaluations and on-site audits.
Our vision is that all suppliers will be considered to have a low risk of violating the principles in our Code of Conduct, based on the UN Global Compact. This requires continuous, long-term and close cooperation with our suppliers.
Part of Purchase Evaluated to have low risk of violating our Code of conduct
- Lithuania 90 %
- Estonia 91 %
- Sweden 59 %
- Romania 100 %
- Europe* 73 %
- China 100 %
* Denmark, Neatherlands, Norway, Portugal, Germany, Great Britain, Slovenia.
The reason why China and Romania get a better result than for example Sweden is becuase we have been using more resourses to controll these supplieras as they are located in so called high risk countries. After our controll these supplier has been concidered as not being at risk of breaking our Code of Conduct.
We want to be transparent
PURCHASES IN 2020*
- Lithuania 57 %
- Estonia 6 %
- Sweden 22 %
- Romaina 1 %
- Europe** 13 %
- China <0,1 %
*>100 000 sek.
**Denmark, Neatherlands, Norway, Portugal, Germany, Great Britain, Slovenia.
50 % OF PURCHASE HAVE UNDERGONE AUDIT
50 percent of NC’s purchases have undergone audit where the outcome often result in action plans. We support our suppliers in their work with fair working conditions. The fact that we have an ongoing and preventing work method for social responsibility in our supply chain is verified by the Möbelfakta label.