- Italcementi Group

The Group supports and upholds internationally proclaimed human rights as inalienable rights of all individuals in line with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, its associated covenants and international agreement inspired by them and the International Labour Organisation standards.

The Group is committed not to be complicit in human rights abuses in all businesses and countries in which it operates, integrating human rights standards into its business practices and fostering open and inclusive work environment that is based on recognized workplace human rights.

Within its sphere of influence, the Group upholds human rights as universal and fundamental, following its pyramid of priorities:

human rights
health and safety
environment
stakeholder engagement

Enforcing the worldwide value of human beings, the Group is committed to promote same principles not only to employees but also towards contractors, subcontractors, customers, suppliers and due diligence processes, business partnerships and project finances in all the areas interested by the Group’s business activities.

The Group has started working on collecting data and information of any possible incident related to human rights and decent working conditions.

On December 10th 2009, the Group celebrated Human Rights Day with a series of local initiatives and events carried out around the world through the active support of all subsidiaries. This initiative, promoted by the United Nations, was aimed at raising public awareness on the need of having a safe, healthy and decent working environment. It was the occasion to highlight once more how human beings are at the core of the Group’s values, as confi rmed by the signature of the BWI Agreement in June 2008.
The local events represented a moment of aggregation among employees, their families and management, together with the involvement of local authorities, NGOs and other relevant stakeholders who actively participated to meetings, open events and other activities launched by each company. On this the occasion, the Group launched its fi rst basic Group-wide training on Human Rights, targeting all managers and a relevant number of fi rst-line employees.