Corporate governance.
Our policies & governance framework.
Our approach
Our Responsible Business approach is integral to everything we do, and effective governance is central to achieving our objectives here as in all other elements of our vision of becoming a world-class service company.
In this section you can find quick links to our stakeholders, materiality, policy framework, information security and supply management.
Governance – download this section-
Our stakeholders
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We engage with stakeholders regularly in different ways to gather their opinions and inform our decision making. This includes contact during business activities, face-to-face meetings and engagement on specific issues, such as regulation. Five key stakeholder groups have been identified: Colleagues, Customers, Shareholders, Communities (including the Environment) and Suppliers.
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Materiality
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The Company considers the materiality of its Responsible Business impacts and the importance of each impact to the business as a whole. This process includes analysing questions posed by major customers in contract tendering processes; reviewing colleagues’ responses to corporate responsibility related questions in our Your Voice Counts employee survey; and reviewing questions received from socially responsible investment third parties.
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Policy framework
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Rentokil Initial has a robust policy framework. For each area of Responsible Business practice, the Company has a framework of policies including:
- Health and safety
- Environmental management
- People matters
- Human Rights
- Modern Slavery
- Supplier Code
- Relationships with customers and suppliers
- Community involvement
- External affairs and political lobbying
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Data security & privacy
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Our global approach to data protection is aligned with the principles of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
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Supplier management
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The supply of products to our global businesses is managed through the Operations Excellence Team, which includes Supply Chain, Logistics and Group Procurement. The annual spend for all significant suppliers is tracked by category, purchasing business unit and country of manufacture. Suppliers are classified as Critical, Major and Local for the purposes of audit, compliance and management control.