Sustainability work

Our sustainability work includes financial, social and environmental responsibility. The starting point for our responsibility is taking responsibility for our own activities and profitable business taking into account the expectations of stakeholders. Well-being and motivated personnel are at the center of our responsible operations in accordance with the strategy.

As part of our business, we adhere to the UN’s sustainable development goals for 2016–2030. From the UN’s sustainable development goals, we have chosen six themes that we emphasize. They are good education, gender equality, affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth, responsible consumption and climate action.

We set environmental goals for each of our units. We encourage our employees to live sustainably. Our staff working at our customers locations respect local operational policy and support our customers quality- and environmental related goals and targets. 

Every HUB employee’s goal is to learn and develop personally in quality- and environmental issues. Our common target is to make continuous improvements. We set both group level goals as well as individual goals set by branches. The outcome is evaluated with quality- and environment indicators.  

Sustainability program guides us to make sustainable choices 

Our sustainability program guides us to act responsibly every day. The program describes the themes under which the goals and measures we define are guided.

The top-level themes are meaningful work, safe work environment, profitable growth and towards greener logistics. With the responsibility program, we take a closer look at environmental issues, for which we have a strong foundation with the ISO14001 standard.

Economical sustainability 

We aim to profitability by meeting our stakeholders’ expectations. We act as a trustworthy business partner. We have outlined in our procurement policy to purchase high-quality raw materials, products and services that are certified and meet our standards.  

We make the effort to source sustainable raw materials, subcontracting materials and products for our services. For example, the wood material we source is PEFC-certified 

We support domestic and local companies by purchasing their products whenever possible. 

Environmental sustainability – Toward greener logistics 

Logistics has an impact on our environment and society. Our status in the service chain is meaningful also for the environment. We choose to make sustainable choices every day. We believe that each and every small choice matters. All small acts put together form a bigger entity that has an impact on our environment and climate. Recycling, waste separation and our way of working within the logistics chain are important to us in our daily work. 

We follow all regulations set to operations and environment by legislation and thereby engage in preventing environmental spoilage. Together with our customers we seek to find best practices in logistics guidance, recycling and in waste treatment. We constantly seek to reduce our emissions and support our customers in this work as well. We prefer to use recycled materials and renewable energy. 

Examples of our environmental work:  

  • Our own outlets use 100% renewable energy.
  • The wood material we source is PEFC-certified.
  • We use solar power in our logistics center in Vantaa

Social responsibility  

 

One of the goals of our responsibility work is that every HUB employee is proud of the work they do. Well-being and motivated personnel are at the center of our operations in accordance with the strategy.

We want to offer a diverse and equal work environment for all our employees. At HUB, everyone can be themselves. Accepting and appreciating the diversity of our employees are of the utmost importance to us. Wellbeing and positive atmosphere are necessities in succeeding. 

Occupational safety rightly becomes one of the umbrella themes of responsibility. Our work safety culture consists of several factors that make it safe to come to work every day.

Taking care of occupational safety is part of our daily activities, and occupational safety is the basis for a prosperous working community. A healthy and safe work environment and well-being at work are also the starting point for good productivity and quality of operations.

We make donations to charity regularly. Improving wellbeing of children, youth and elderly people as well as supporting sports and physical education are on our charity programme.  We for example donated computers and mobile phones to needy families together with our IT-partner.

Our social responsibility also includes consideration of the surrounding society. We make a donation to at least one charity each year and improving the well-being of young people and supporting sports and exercise are important things to us. We have supported low-income families by donating used computers, tablets and phones to young students. The donation in question was made together with our IT partner.

Responsibility and sustainable development are key parts of our business.
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