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GRI marks 20th anniversary of first draft guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... Standards allow us to incorporate the most current thinking and set the bar across themes as diverse as occupational health and safety, human rights and water stewardship. For example, we are now working to establish a first global standard for reporting ...

Exploring the risks, impacts of future of work on investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... itself may be better, more efficient, more cost effective, have higher productivity and better occupational health and safety outcomes, but it could mean a lot less people who can earn money and who can consume other parts of the economy. What does that ...

GRI Global Sustainability Standards Board appoints chair, new members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... 2017, oversee the review of the first of the modular GRI Standards - GRI 303: Water and GRI 403: Occupational Health and Safety, GRI 201: Economic Performance, human rights-related standards, and GRI 306: Effluents and Waste.

Materiality analysis helps define sustainability issues: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... sectors. According to the report, investors and companies in the mining sector both agreed that occupational health and safety, communities, and labour are material, while in the metals sector companies and investors cited occupational health and safety ...

Altius Sustainable Bond Fund certified by RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... cosmetic purposes; having unacceptable environmental management practices; or having unacceptable occupational health and safety practices." The fund has a sustainability committee to give advice, which is made up of two independent members and two Altius ...

ACCSR: Companies lack strategies to manage human rights risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... focus human rights efforts where they have direct operational control, such as a high importance on occupational health and safety, non-discrimination and diversity and inclusion. Many businesses have aspiration and commitment to address human rights ...

ESG concerns a challenge for mining projects: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... are not diversified in their projects, Vernon noted. In that same vein, Vernon also touched on occupational health and safety (OH&S), a management issue in its own right, but also an issue that impacts on things like social license to operate. "You have ...

Women on Boards tracks gender diversity gains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... momentum behind making gender diversity a governance concern to other governance issues such as occupational health and safety. "The issue is now becoming far more mainstream," she said. "It's becoming one they can't ignore, like health and safety. People ...

ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... and applying those concepts to E and S issues." "For example, in the E and S space, you could fit occupational health and safety in under the social as part of it and include it in the OFR," Chioatto said. "Every company in the extractive industry sees ...

AMP Capital busts ESG myths

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... value is made up of intangible drivers which are not always found in financial statements, such as occupational health and safety performance, corporate culture and supply chain management, Carlsson-Sweeny said in the paper. "The proportion of a company's ...