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203REGISTRATION DOCUMENT − L’ORÉAL 2011
Corporate social, environmental and societal responsibility
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Societal information
In fact, L’Oréal’s products continually evolve as and when
technological innovations occur, but with the constant desire
to guarantee the highest level of safety for both consumers and
professionals.
6.3.5. Other actions taken in
favour ofHumanRights
L’Oréal’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer has given the
Director of Ethics the task of making sure that human rights are
respected in the Company’s business activities.
Several chapters of the Code of Business Ethics are devoted to
practical implementation of compliance with human rights:
health, hygiene and safety, diversity, moral and sexual harassment,
respect of privacy, contributing to the community, choice and
equal treatment of suppliers, to name but a few. The Code of
Business Ethics is available on the www.loreal.com website.
Training and communication on Ethics also address Human
Rights issues. In2011, 77% of the countries where the Group is
present included Human Rights topics (health, hygiene and
safety, diversity, moral harassment, sexual harassment, respect
for privacy, contributing to the community, choice and equal
treatment of suppliers) in their local training courses and 83% of
them communicated on these topics.
Country Managers are responsible for implementation of the
Human Rights policy in their country. The Group’s Director of Ethics
meets systematically with each Country Manager in order to
bring their attention to Human Rights issues.
Country Reporting Ethics , an annual reporting system on
ethical issues, covers all the subjects addressed in the Code
of Business Ethics and therefore provides an analysis of the
initiatives implemented in the countries. This information makes
it possible, in particular, to assess the Group’s performance in the
application of Human Rights.
The ethical risk assessment and analysis tool enables Country
Managers to assess any ethical risks (including in the field of
H uman R ights) and to take the necessary steps to remedy the
problems that may arise.
Methodological note
The information with regard to societal commitments, a new
section which now supplements the information on social and
environmental issues, is provided from the perspective of the
requirements of the GrenelleII regulations.
Societal commitment data scope, indicators,
reporting method and systems
Scope of consolidation
The scope covers, depending on the indicators, L’Oréal parent
company, France or the Group. The specific scope is specified
for each indicator.
Indicators
The indicators chosen are those anticipated within the scope
of the GrenelleII regulations, with the aim of data comparability.
Data
The following methods are used to collect data for the defined
scope:
A certain amount of data particularly concerning Ethics
is collected by the Ethics Department using the “
Country
reporting
” intranet system, also used to collect Human Resources
data (see, in this respect, the HR data reporting methodology
described on page 193 ).
The other data are collected from the departments concerned
(Communications, Sustainable Development and Public
Affair Department, Human Resources Department, Purchasing
Department, International Product Safety Assessment
Department).