Our Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Policy, underpins Goodbody Health’s activities across all our businesses where we operate. It sets out our approach to sustainability and forms the basis of our decisions by focusing on business ethics and compliance, people and culture and community involvement. We deliver products and services to our stakeholders which support , impact and underpin socially responsible themes.
Our contribution to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals:
What Goodbody Are Doing
No Poverty – end poverty in all its forms everywhere
Developing products and services tailored for customers with less available resources
Recruit, train and employ local community members, including those with low incomes, and integrate them into the value chain (as producers, suppliers, distributors, vendors).
Good Health and Well-being – ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Partner with health care provider clinics to raise awareness and increase access to targeted health services for people and their families.
Make investments in health, a priority in business operations.
Quality Education – ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Create programs (e.g., internships, work-study programs, traineeships, etc.) that give students earlier access to the corporate environment.
Provide employees with continuous opportunities to improve their (job) skills for their current and future employment.
Develop cost-effective education products and services that eliminate barriers to access and improve the quality of learning (e.g. ICT solutions to improve the delivery of education, innovative measurement tools, etc.).
Gender Equality – achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Pay equal remuneration, including benefits, for work of equal value and strive to pay a living wage to all women and men.
Support access to child and dependent care by providing services, resources and information to both women and men.
Establish a zero-tolerance policy towards all forms of violence at work, including verbal and/or physical abuse and sexual harassment.
Expand business relationships with women-owned enterprises, including small businesses and women entrepreneurs.
Affordable and Clean Energy – ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Commit to sourcing 100% of operational electricity needs from renewable sources when the contracts allow.
Reduce the internal demand for transport by prioritizing telecommunications and incentivize less energy intensive modes such as train travel over auto and air travel.
Decent Work and Economic Growth – promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Foster entrepreneurial culture and invest in or mentor young entrepreneurs.
Put in place mechanisms to identify child labour and forced labour throughout global supply chains, and implement remediation when abuses are discovered.
Install a firm policy against unfair hiring and recruitment practices, particularly of vulnerable groups.
Reduced Inequalities
Develop products and services tailored for customers from different economic backgrounds (e.g. a wide range of cost options for testing).
Recruit, train and employ local community members, including those on low incomes, and integrate them in your value chain (as producers, suppliers, distributors, vendors).
Sustainable Cities and Communities – make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Use technological expertise to help build capacity of local businesses to deliver solutions and reduce travel.
Responsible Consumption and Production – ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Develop innovative business models such as moving from selling products to selling services, to retain ownership of the products and help close the materials loop.
Commit to and implement responsible sourcing practices beyond compliance – applying environmental and social safeguards – for all raw materials and commodities.
Foster product and technology innovation to optimize resource efficiency, reduce impacts on ecosystems and lower carbon emissions.
Climate Action – take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Source all electricity the company consumes at its facilities from renewable sources – such as wind, solar or hydro – or install renewable energy generation capacity on-site once existing contracts allow.
We conduct our business with the “Customer Outcomes” at the core of what we do.
We accept responsibility, support one another, share credit and learn from our mistakes.
We take ownership for problems to find solutions.
We maintain high standards of business conduct.
We are passionate and take pride in our work and our Company.
We work hard to exceed the expectations of our Customers and Partners.
We conduct business with unquestioned integrity and trust.
We believe in the development and recognition of our employees.
We treat our Employees, Customers and Partners with mutual respect and sensitivity, recognising the importance of diversity, and value their contributions.
We believe in constant improvement and strive to be the best at what we do, embracing and capitalising on change and innovation.
We are a single team of intelligent, honest, energised self-starters working together to create the best outcome for Goodbody, our Customers and our Stakeholders.
We conduct our business with integrity.
We conduct our business with due skill, care and diligence.
We take reasonable care to organise and control our affairs responsibly and effectively, with adequate risk management systems
We maintain adequate financial resources.
We observe proper standards of market conduct.
We pay due regard to the information needs of our clients and communicate information to them in a way which is clear, fair and not misleading.
We take reasonable care to ensure the suitability of our advice and discretionary decisions for any customer who is entitled to rely upon its judgment.
We deal with our regulators in an open and cooperative way and disclose to the appropriate regulator appropriately anything relating to the firm of which that regulator would reasonably expect notice.
