Sustainability-Progress-Report 2008
A goal of the BWT-Sustainability-Initiative is to embed consciousness of the responsibility for our resources, the environment, our employees, customers and the society in daily, entrepreneurial acting. In 2008, the BWT Group took further steps in the extension and a systematisation of our approach. By the company-wide implementation of the Sustainability-Reporting in the Management-Information-System (MIS) on the basis of the reporting standard of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) the data quality was increased considerably and a practicable monitoring instrument for the management was created. Again considerable progress could be obtained in the individual stakeholder responsibilities, as explained in the following.
Organizational framework
In July 2006, BWT’s CSR project was created with a project team at Group level. In terms of organization, BWT set the goal of making CSR an integral management function, whereby the management of the Group companies in the particular functional responsibilities and the Management Board (CEO Andreas Weissenbacher and CFO Gerhard Speigner) are in charge. The internationally recognized GRI template was chosen as the reporting standard on the basis of which a survey was carried out at the most important manufacturing Group companies. Existing certifications in accordance with ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 formed an important link.
Main factors
Important stakeholders for BWT were identified as: customers, employees, suppliers, the environment, society and capital donors like banks and investors. The following diagram illustrates and substantiates the dimensions of our stakeholders.