Five principles
We believe that our long term sustainability is firmly grounded in healthy relationships with our clients, staff, supply chain, industry, community and the natural environment. Don Parry Communications & Planning from Queensland Complete Printing Services
Responsible Business Practice Principles
An overview
These principles have been developed to introduce small to medium-sized businesses to the basic concepts of responsible business practice or sustainability and provide a framework within which they can understand their existing position and identify areas for further action and improvement. The 5 principles below represent the key aspects of responsible business practice - maintaining economic viability, protecting and supporting employees, engaging with and disseminating responsible business practices through your supply chain, engaging with community and other stakeholders, and reducing impact on the environment.
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1. Financial sustainability
Operate our business in an economically sustainable manner
To operate your business in an economically sustainable manner is to ensure that it has the basic resources, governance and cash flow to be able to continue to operate for the foreseeable future.
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2. Workplace
Provide a workplace that supports worker and employee wellbeing
This principle focuses on your business's relationship with its workers or employees. The aim of the principle is to encourage a workplace in which workers or employees feel included, useful, and respected, and where the negative impacts of work are minimised through consideration of the worker or employee's life outside of the workplace.
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3. Supply chain
Promote responsible business practices throughout our supply chain
The focus of this principle is on both your upstream (for example suppliers) and downstream (for example customers) supply chain, with the aim to foster responsible business practices at all points of the supply chain.
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4. Stakeholders and community
Actively engage with our community and other stakeholders
This principle focuses on your community and other stakeholders, and the ways in which you foster relationships with them. A business's stakeholders can include its workers or employees, customers, suppliers, local community, investors, government and any other groups that affect or are affected by the business's actions. Engaging with these groups is integral to ensuring that your business can sustain itself and grow and develop in a responsible manner.
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5. Environment
Minimise the impact of our business activities on the environment
The focus of this principle is the environment, and minimising any negative impacts your business's operations have on it. Key environmental impact areas include energy use, water use, greenhouse gas emissions, waste, and biodiversity. Depending on your main business activity your business may have an environmental impact in all or only some of these areas.