Corporate Responsibility
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Andy StevensChief Executive |
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As a growing, dynamic, international business Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability is regarded as a key consideration in day to day business throughout Cobham. We seek to identify current and emerging social and environmental issues that present both risks and opportunities to our business, develop plans to proactively address these risks and create value by realising opportunities that align with our core business activities. Combining these activities with our proven financial management will continue to deliver added shareholder value for our business.We are currently focusing our efforts on the safety, health environmental (SHE) impacts arising from our operations, activities, products and services, rolling out internationally our code of business conduct and improving our stakeholder engagement processes. This report presents the improvements we have made during 2008 and sets out what we plan to achieve during 2009. Notably, we have increased our emphasis in this area by hiring a new Director of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability who works closely with the Executive Committee in developing our approach in these matters. We have established a new Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Committee chaired by me which focuses on directing our resources in this area and monitoring our performance. As Chief Executive, I also ensure that the Board is kept appraised of our work and takes account of these issues in its Annual Risk Assessment and monitors its progress throughout the year. Thank you for taking the time to read this report. We hope that you will find it insightful. We will continue to review our Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability strategy to bring it into line with best practice and to align it with our core business strategy. We welcome your feedback and with your support we will continue to make Cobham even more successful as a responsible and sustainable business that protects lives and livelihoods.”
Andy Stevens
Chief Executive
Please click here to read our 2008 CR Report (2.75mb PDF) detailing our performance and progress in our Corporate Responsibility activities.
Please direct all feedback to:
James Streater
Director, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
(james.streater@cobham.com)