Vetoquinol corporate brochure 2020

16 _ Vetoquinol _ 2020 CSR A SOCIALLY-RESPONSIBLE COMPANY Vetoquinol, a committed group Vetoquinol is conscious of its employees’ satisfaction and motivation levels and regularly measures these parameters with satisfaction surveys across the majority of the Group’s entities. Appropriate action plans then contribute to improving quality of life at work and developing skills within our teams. Vetoquinol is committed to fighting any form of discrimination. The Group aims to fairly compensate employees and share profits with them. It puts in place the conditions for everyone in the organisation to have job satisfaction. The health and safety of our colleagues is a constant focus. The Industrial and Quality Department makes sure that the highest safety standards are applied in all of the laboratory’s entities. For many years now, our Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) strategy has been simultaneously based around HSE management best practice and individual responsibility. Results, in terms of accident rates, are closely monitored and demonstrate the effectiveness of the actions introduced. A willingness to lead by example The Vetoquinol Group has developed an exemplary corporate governance that creates a transparent set of principles, processes and controls through which the interests of the board of directors, management and all other stakeholders come together as one. For almost ten years, Vetoquinol has been part of the GAIA index and has been regularly awarded for 7 consecutive years in the top 3 of companies included in this index. Being listed for 14 years on the Euronext Paris market allows the laboratory to rely on standards of excellence in terms of quality and transparency of financial information. Vetoquinol will continue its efforts to enrich its CSR program and continue to be among the best companies in its category. Designed around cross-disciplinary issues, our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) approach feeds into all of Vetoquinol’s strategic projects and is part of the Group’s global performance management. It ensures projects are sustainable, and that they share the value created.