In 2014, we established corporate responsibility goals. Below is a discussion of our progress toward these goals;
many of these are targeted for 2014 and are ongoing.
We will establish Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) baselines.
Davey Tree has over 150 facilities throughout the U.S. and Canada, with employee counts per facility ranging
from under 10 to over 100. This vast footprint and level of variability makes the aggregation of data around our
ESG baselines challenging. This year, we used a facility survey to calculate our baseline. The optional survey
was sent to each of our facilities and yielded a 67 percent response rate. To create baselines for this report,
we used data from only the facilities that reported for all environmental metrics, consisting of 48 percent of
our facility footprint. In future years, we plan to improve our baseline through incorporating environmental
and social metrics into our existing data management systems, and streamlining processes to ease reporting
while adding rigor to data.
We will establish Vision 20/20 goals tied to each of our corporate
responsibility pillars.
As we evolve to the GRI G4 framework, we will perform a materiality assessment to determine what ESG
topics are most critical, both internally and for our external stakeholders. Upon determining material topics,
we will create robust goals and associated metrics as part of our management and reporting process. These
goals will complement Davey Tree's Vision 20/20—our Strategic Plan for continued success—and align with
our corporate responsibility pillars. We aim to complete our materiality assessment and report using the GRI
G4 Guidelines for our 2015 report.
We will review our supply chain procedures to ensure consideration
of ESG issues.
We understand our supply chain, from business travel to vehicle fleet, and we are striving to improve it for
the better. We aspire to work with suppliers that share our level of dedication to corporate responsibility and
are currently in process of identifying key suppliers with which we can collaborate on tackling shared ESG
issues. Our largest purchasing categories include equipment, insurance, fuel, chemicals and miscellaneous
supplies. In addition, we are working to develop a procurement policy, which will codify our interest in working
with partners who have formal corporate responsibility programs and publicly disclose. Items included in the
procurement policy will be finalized on the basis of the materiality assessment.
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CORPORATE
RESPONSIBILITY
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