Sustainability Diagnosis

Glossary

Material Themes

Material themes are the subjects/themes that significantly affect an organization's ability to generate value in the short, medium and long term. It concerns the most relevant issues for her, according to the business strategy and the perspective of economic, social and environmental impacts on the public with whom she interacts. Examples of material topics: Supplier Development, Climate Change, Community Relations, Health and Safety, People Management, Reverse Logistics.

private social investment

Private social investment is the voluntary transfer of private resources in a planned, monitored and systematic manner to social, environmental, cultural and scientific projects of public interest. This type of investment can take several forms, such as: donation through tax incentives granted by the government and also through the allocation of direct, non-financial or intangible financial resources.

SDG – Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global agenda adopted during the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2015, comprising 17 goals and 169 goals to be achieved by 2030. This agenda sets up a proposal to guide the United Nations on how to make development sustainable for all.

Benefits for employees

Corporate benefits are advantages that a company makes available to its employees, with the intention of increasing the level of satisfaction with the company and retaining talent, such as medical and dental insurance, food or meal vouchers, discounts in bookstores, stores, gyms, pharmacies and many others.

Supplier management

Supplier management consists of a set of techniques applied by the company with the objective of optimizing the administration of its supply sources, monitoring conduct, valuing the local economy, guaranteeing better products and services and developing the chain as a whole.

Formal Education incentive program

The benefits of encouraging formal education are related to the opportunities and support that the company provides to encourage its employees to continue studying to complete secondary, higher, postgraduate, master's or doctoral education. Incentives can be direct financial (subsidising part of the cost of studies) or indirect (making working hours more flexible). A Program provides for the existence of clear rules for the offer, monitors results, has metrics and carries out periodic assessments.

Plan for jobs and wages

The job and salary plan is an internal company policy that defines and describes all company positions, as well as their attributions and responsibilities — and the salary corresponding to each of these positions, ensuring equality and fair standardization among employees.

Occupational Health and Safety Policy (PSST)

The Occupational Health and Safety Policy is a formalized plan that details the company's actions and positioning to prevent accidents and occupational diseases and which records, in addition to legal commitments, all the complementary strategies adopted by the company.

Risk Matrix

The Risk Matrix is a tool for managing and assessing the risks identified by the company and that impact the legitimacy of its operation. It corresponds to a representation of the combination of the probability of an event occurring, associating to this probability the impact, if the event occurs.

Sustainable Innovations

According to the IXL Center (Institute for Research and Fostering Innovation, based in the USA), they can be understood as those that create added value without compromising meeting the needs of future generations. It appears as a competitive strategy for companies that see opportunities for innovation in the need for sustainability.

Climate and or Engagement Survey

The Organizational Climate survey is a people management tool, which seeks to understand the work environment and its effects on employees, the context in which they are inserted and promote improvements with an impact on motivation, productivity and financial results. Usually performed annually.

The Engagement Survey is a smaller, faster survey, performed more times in less time with the goal of tracking your team's engagement level in real time. It can be carried out weekly or monthly, through a pulse survey with 5 to 10 questions, with an intuitive and attractive interface to actually collect information and generate immediate corrective actions.

Corruption Prevention

Corruption prevention in companies corresponds to all actions, internal controls and conduct instituted by the company to prevent corruptive practices and guidance for employees and partners, based on the general requirements of Law 12,846 of August 1, 2013 (“Anti-Corruption Law ”).

Interested parts

Stakeholders, also called stakeholders, correspond to all elements (people, institutions, groups, government bodies, etc.) that in some way affect or are affected by the company.

Environmental education

Environmental education in companies is related to actions aimed at making individuals aware of environmental problems and how to help fight them, based on the search for a balance between man and the environment.

Reverse logistic

Reverse Logistics corresponds to a set of procedures and means to collect and forward post-sales or post-consumption to the reuse and/or correct destination and disposal of waste. This concept was reinforced with the publication of the National Solid Waste Policy (Law No. 12,305, of August 2010), which established a sectorial agreement, including manufacturers, importers, distributors and traders, regarding the implementation of a shared responsibility for the cycle of product life. Depending on the sector in which the company operates, implementing a Reverse Logistics policy is an obligation, as manufacturers, importers, distributors and traders of pesticides, batteries, tires, lubricating oils (with their residues and packaging), fluorescent lamps (from sodium and mercury vapor, and mixed light), and electronic products and their components.

Zero waste

The Zero Waste concept consists of the maximum use and correct forwarding of recyclable and organic waste and the reduction – or even the end – of the forwarding of these materials to sanitary landfills and/or incineration. According to ZWIA – Zero Waste International Alliance – Zero Waste is “an ethical, economic, efficient and visionary goal to guide people to change their ways of life and practices in order to encourage sustainable natural cycles, where all materials are designed to allow its recovery and post-consumer use.”

Effluents and Waste

Effluents correspond to liquid discharges from different activities or processes. Waste is any material, substance or discarded good that is subject to and essential treatment, that is, that can be reused or reused as inputs for other products after the transformation process.

Climate changes

Climate Change corresponds to a set of changes in the Earth's climate conditions due to the accumulation of six types of gases – such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) – in the atmosphere. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC, its acronym in English – climate change is a long-term change, typically decades or more, in the average and/or variability of climate properties, predominantly influenced by human action.

Green IT

Green IT can be defined as the set of sustainable practices that make the use of technology less harmful. It is an initiative that uses the IT infrastructure to change organizational processes and practices in order to improve energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impacts caused by IT activities; in addition to introducing environmentally healthier business models, favorable to organizations and environmentally correct products for the market.

life cycle analysis

LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) is a tool for evaluating the environmental and human health impacts associated with a product, service, process or material, throughout its life cycle (from cradle to grave), from extraction and processing of raw material until final disposal, going through the transformation and processing, transport, distribution, use, reuse, maintenance and recycling phases. It corresponds to the set of all the steps necessary for a product to fulfill its function in the productivity chain.

Eco-efficient

Eco-efficiency corresponds to the search to bring more profitability, using less raw materials. It concerns the provision of services and goods capable of satisfying human needs and providing quality of life without causing environmental impacts and spending the least amount of natural resources. This is the characteristic of products that produce more and better, with fewer resources and waste.
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