Our Corporate Responsibility Report 2014 emphasizes our progress
and current initiatives.
REPORT SCOPE AND BOUNDARY
The report covers the 2014 reporting period and serves as an open
and ongoing dialogue on how we address and continuously improve
the responsibility of our company. At the end of the report, you
will find a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Content Index, which
organizes our responses to the GRI G3.1 sustainability reporting
disclosures. These disclosures adhere to Application Level C of
the GRI G3.1 framework. We welcome your feedback throughout
the year at corporateresponsibility@davey.com.
ENGAGING OUR STAKEHOLDERS
In 2013, we conducted a materiality assessment to determine
which economic, environmental and social issues matter most
to our stakeholders. As part of this assessment, we conducted
interviews with internal stakeholders and analyzed existing
internal and external surveys. We consider our stakeholders to
include any group that is affected by or affects our business.
Such groups include employees, clients, suppliers, industry
associations, regulators and the communities in which we
work. Because we are employee-owned, our employees are
also our shareholders.
We aim to report using the GRI G4 framework in fiscal year 2015,
and plan to update our material economic, environmental and social
issues through a robust materiality assessment. Such an assessment
will assist us in validating that issues identified in 2014 are still
material, and determine boundary for each material topic.
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY PILLARS
Our corporate responsibility pillars guide our company vision:
Unmatched excellence in client experience, employee engagement,
financial strength and value delivered. Our commitment focuses
on the following four pillars:
Safe Business Practices
Sustainable Environment
Innovative Thinking
Engaged Employees
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