Grontmij’s Integrity Management System - built on six stakeholder-driven principles: Responsibility, Competence, Diligence, Impartiality, Fairness and Anti-Corruption
In our role as a leading sustainable design, engineering and management consultancy we have a responsibility to our stakeholders and our environment. We believe the integrity of our Group means we must live up to this responsibility in everything we do, every day.
By implementing our Grontmij Integrity Management System (GIMS), we aim to embed, integrate and further strengthen integrity awareness across the Group. We chose a broad, integrated approach for our GIMS. Its principles comprise both ethical values and professional standards. This combination is vital to gain and maintain the confidence of our stakeholders. A consultancy like Grontmij can only have true added value if we have that confidence.
We tailored the system to our Group and our business activities. This is how we identified and defined the components we needed: Responsibility, Competence, Diligence, Impartiality, Fairness and Anti-Corruption Five out of six principles are derived from the Code of Ethics of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC). In addition, our Responsibility follows to a great extent from the ten principles of United Nations Global Compact. We added Diligence because it reflects our own values.
Our Business Policy sets the strategic framework for the behaviour we envisage in our business conduct. The policy is the basis for our Business Principles that contain standards for the way we conduct our business. Our employees are at the heart of Grontmij and it is through them that we conduct our business. So a clear Code of Conduct sets the standards which we expect our employees to follow and the behaviour we expect them to adopt, both externally and internally. All these components, Business Policy, Business Principles and Code of Conduct, will be integrated into existing local procedures. Additional local guidelines may be set because business ethics and practices can differ from country to country. Together, these will constitute our Local Business Guidelines.
SafeguardsGIMS has been equipped with essential safeguards. If you would like to review all of these safeguards, please download the PDF version of the Business Policy and Principles. You will find the safeguards on page 4.
Business Integrity Officer
In each Grontmij country or region, a Business Integrity Officer has been appointed by the Country Managing Director. The Business Integrity Officer can be involved by employees in integrity-related matters. The Business Integrity Officer is responsible for recording and investigating suspected incidents that have been reported and for monitoring whether appropriate sanctions are needed or action is taken to prevent repetition.
The Group Integrity Officer, who is appointed by the Executive Board, has the same role as the Business Integrity Officer at Group level. Moreover, the Group Integrity Officer is responsible for ensuring lessons are learned from any incidents throughout the Group.
A Group Integrity Committee, chaired by the Group Integrity Officer, has been installed at Group level and will act as a sounding board for the Group Integrity Officer.