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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
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 process in place to
ensure that any identified issues are dealt with at the appropriate
level of the company.
In order to ensure that our sustainability strategies are carried
out effectively and consistently throughout the organisation,
our RMSC has also formed the Sustainability Sub-Committees,
comprising key employees from the company’s different
product lines and the relevant departments. We have
organised our sustainability approach into the following five
key areas across the company.
25VTech Holdings Limited Annual Report 2015