GRUNDFOS SUSTAINABILITY PROGRESS REPORT 2015 / 23 mobility, and by adjusting the content of the job and nature of the work, to enable this to be carried out in spite of reduced working capacity. The number of employees working for an external business partner who carries out assignments for Grundfos is also included. Group entities audited, Grundfos Code of Conduct Grundfos Corporate Internal Control (CIC) visits a selected amount of Grundfos companies every year. The purpose is to review and rate the internal control environment and to submit observations, risk descriptions and recommendations for improving business processes and controls, including in relation to the Grundfos Code of Conduct. Number of injuries per million working hours Injuries are measured as lost time injuries, which has caused lost working hours for at least one day after the injury. The indicator is indexed as injuries per one million working hours for blue and white collar employees. Actions taken in response to incidents of corruption This includes breaches reported to the Ethics Committees or discovered by e.g. Grundfos Corporate Internal Control. Working hours lost due to lost time injuries Lost time due to lost time injuries is measured in number of hours. The indicator is indexed as working hours lost due to injuries per one thousand working hours. Absence from LTIs that occurred in previous years is included. Group suppliers A Group supplier is a supplier who supplies materials directly to more than one Grundfos production company. Group suppliers can be global (serving several Grundfos companies across several regions) and regional (serving several Grundfos companies within a region). A process of data quality improvement and a new organisational setup for the European area has during 2015 led to a large increase in the number of counted group suppliers. It has not affected the processes linked to the suppliers. People competences Employee Development Dialogue (EDD) At Grundfos, EDDs are used to discuss the employee´s tasks, qualifications and motivation for doing her/his job and the employee’s development ambitions and competences. It is Grundfos’ objective that all employees with more than 6 months contract attend an EDD every year. Data from 2012 and 2013 are not comparable with 2014 and 2015 as we in 2014 changed the data source. In 2016, the EDD process will be merged with the Employee Performance Dialogue (EPD); and going forward we will only have one Performance & Development Dialogue (PDD). A new system, Success Factor, has been implemented to support this process. This may affect the numbers and the comparison in 2016. System and process audits System audits are quality audits of potential and existing suppliers. System audits include social and environmental aspects related to the Grundfos Supplier Code of Conduct. During 2013, process audits were introduced to sharpen the scope and increase the pool of resources able to conduct audits, enabling Grundfos to carry out the audits where and how they provide the greatest value. Process audits, however, do not include social and environmental aspects. Social audits Social audits focus solely on supplier performance within the areas of labour standards, employment practices, anticorruption and community impact and sub-supplier responsibility. Compliance workshops During 2015, 2 compliance workshops were arranged. The concept was launched in 2009, and Grundfos Corporate Internal Control (CIC) executed many workshops in order to educate the whole organisation. Workshops are now mainly conducted for new finance managers. This means that CIC expects to conduct 1 or 2 workshops each year For further information about Grundfos and sustainability reporting, visit www.grundfos.com/sustainability.
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