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Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... exposed to skills shortages in their workforce, and that exposure and companies' strategic responses pose risks to health and safety, to the environment, and to capital expenditure projects for exploration and production, according to a report by AXA ...

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... factors, the issue of a sustainably managed and motivated workforce is coming to the forefront. While occupational health and safety issues are routinely managed and reported in some industries, other issues, such as flexible working arrangements, gender ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... the working group process in April/May 2012. The four new topics are greenhouse gas emissions, occupational health and safety, corruption, and biodiversity. Other topics are under discussion and will be announced later this year. Q: You mentioned that ...

Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... measurements of environmental management in most sectors, whereas social is more difficult to measure. Occupational health and safety can be simple in terms of measuring injuries, but 'near misses' are recorded less often. The other challenge with labour ...

KPMG: agribusiness needs national food policy framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... and the industry is losing future farmers to the mining industry's lucrative jobs. That aging impact raises health and safety questions and also represents a fundamental change in the relationship between the population that lives on the coast and the ...

GRI releases oil and gas sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... providing a framework for disclosure of sustainability performance on metrics including environmental management, health and safety and emergency preparedness. The Oil and Gas Sector Supplement is aimed at companies and organizations involved in the ...

LGS select MSCI for ESG and carbon research, monitoring

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... and non-ESG indices and measure the relative ESG exposure by sector and key ESG risks including water, carbon, health and safety, and supply chain. "We are delighted to be working with LGS to provide them with the tools they need to assess ESG and carbon ...

Companies testing labour, human rights supply chain standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... the companies' codes of conduct regarding issues like child labour, freedom of association and occupational health and safety, the training provided to company managers and suppliers on the code, the companies' commitment to the code, companies' reporting ...

Climate change, human rights, social justice top 2012 agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... catastrophe there with social risks, but how to build that into the systematic process is difficult." Occupational health and safety does tend to be one area that has been recognized as a proxy metric for good governance, and by extension, the possibility ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... have LHR policies. The one area in which ASX200 companies approached their global peer group is in the area of health and safety - 35% of ASX200 companies have OHS policies, compared to 40% of global peers. "One reason more ASX 200 firms perform better ...