Corporate Social Responsibility Framework
The following diagram summarizes the Company’s framework and approach to sustainability:
The Company ensures adherence to best practices for reporting sustainability issues through application of its framework and GRI Standards. The Company’s sustainability framework defines the way it conducts business which is supported by policies, guidelines, values and management tools. It commits the Company to consider and take responsibility for the long term economic, social and environmental implications of the Company’s decisions and to work in partnership with all stakeholders across its value chain to maximize positive impacts.
The Company’s framework is a product of the Atlas Group’s fundamental business doctrine, the “ATLAS WAY”. It comprises of the principles of “ATLAS CULTURE” and “ATLAS SYSTEMS”.
The principles of the Atlas Way cover all departments, operations, activities and aspects of business and provide ideal guidelines for their progressive development. The ultimate goal is to obtain excellence in operations and quality in products without compromising the protection of environment and interests of society at large. The Atlas Way teaches the Company to pursue operational and financial results while maintaining environmental quality and social responsibility.
The Company ensures the adherence to the best practices in the sustainability reporting through application of its framework. The most widely used guidelines the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 guidelines, are used by the Company for communicating its impacts to its stakeholders.
The procedures adopted in the Atlas Culture and the Atlas Systems completely align the Company’s areas of sustainability framework with the three performance categories given in the GRI guidelines.
The Company’s sustainability framework defines the way we do business and is supported by a suite of policies, guidance, values and management tools. It commits the Company to consider and take responsibility for the longer term economic, social and environmental implications of its decisions and to work in partnership with stakeholders across the automotive value chain to maximize positive impacts.