Welshpool firm awarded for social responsibility
The prestigious international standard is awarded to businesses and organisations “committed to operating in a socially responsible way.”
Invertek, which designs and manufactures variable frequency drives used to control electric motors at its headquarters in Welshpool, UK, will use the standard as a best practice framework for its CSR which outlines seven key principles that are viewed as the roots of socially responsible behaviour.
The standard will continue to be assessed by independent auditors as with the company’s other business management systems.
Stephanie Walton, Compliance Manager, said the accreditation was an endorsement of the hard work and commitment of the Invertek team.
“As a company, we have a responsibility to our people, community, and the wider environment. These include seven guiding principles that are accountability, transparency, ethical behaviour, respect for stakeholder interests, respect for the rule of law, respect for international norms of behaviour, and respect for human rights,” said Stephanie.
“ISO 26000 is not only an endorsement of that commitment, it demonstrates how we are undertaking that work as part of our core values, as well as being inherently the right approach for our sustainable business and our reputation of being a responsible organisation.”
According to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ISO 26000 “provides guidance to those who recognize that respect for society and environment is a critical success factor. As well as being the ‘right thing’ to do, application of ISO 26000 is increasingly viewed as a way of assessing an organization’s commitment to sustainability and its overall performance.”
Adrian Ellam, CEO of Invertek Drives Ltd, congratulated the compliance team. “As a company and as part of the wider PTC EMEIA group, we are committed to upholding the best practices and principles for our employees, our community and wider environment. ISO 26000 has been achieved through hard work and we have all played a part in some way towards this.”
He added: “As we move forward and grow as a business we will ensure our core values are aligned with all that we continue to do. This builds on our existing environmental, quality, and sustainability principles and commitment.”
Invertek’s ISO 26000 statement states: “We have applied ISO 26000 as a framework to integrate social responsibility into all our business practices for our employees, sub-contractors and suppliers appropriately to adhere to. We regularly monitor our performance based on these values and conduct checks to ensure that our wider team and partners align to these values.
“We pride ourselves on our true, evidence-based commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility and use Ecovadis as a trusted and independent assessment to score our actions, data and evidence on an annual basis. In 2023, we achieved a silver rating in Ecovadis.
“We also participate in the Carbon Disclosure Project for both carbon and water and publicly report our data, as part of the Streamlined Energy and Carbon reporting.”
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