April 01, 2022

I am pleased to confirm that POUL TARP A/S reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations. We also commit to sharing this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.

Sincerely yours,
Poul Tarp

As a company, we are of the opinion that we have the resources and the responsibility to have a positive impact on society and support people who are having difficulties when it comes to education and employment. We believe that it is important for all people to be a part of a community to find their place in society. We often assist people that come to us with a condition or a diagnosis that causes them to be unable to get an education or work full time and we do what we can to help them.

We are very focues on the rights and well-being of our employees. In our written company policies, we have a code of conduct concerning behaviour at the workplace.

We strongly support people getting an education and we have chosen to provide the necessary steps – such as apprenticeships – towards an education to people who face challenges in one way or another. We offer internships and easily accessible jobs for a few hours per day for persons with disabilities or people who are having difficulties adjusting to society in one way or another.
We also work with schools across the world to provide young people with internships in Denmark.

We currently employ several people in positions that allow them to work flexible hours for only a few hours a day. Each year, we provide a number of people with internships and apprenticeships - many who face difficulties getting an education and finding employment.

We feel that we have both the resources and the responsibility to have a positive impact on society and support people who are having difficulties when it comes to education and employment. We will continue offering internships and easily accessible jobs for a few hours per day and apprenticeships to help people getting one step closer towards an education.

At our office in Randers, we engage in open and constructive dialogue with our employees and provide them with the time and facilities for them to hold meetings among themselves. The employees have a staff representative who functions as a link between the management and the employees.

In our company guidelines for our employees, we have written company policies to uphold the freedom of association and collective bargaining. We have also written our company policies concerning maternity leave, sick leave and all other rights that our employees have and where we stress the importance of a good work environment.

It is very important for us to engage in dialogue with our business partners across the world regarding labour rights. We want to ensure that they offer proper work conditions for their employees to make sure that we are not participating in any form of forced labour.

At POUL TARP A/S, we are very concerned with the well-being of our employees and we make sure that the health and safety of all employees are ensured.
Our employees are provided with health-care insurance. This insurance covers, for example, physiotherapy, therapy sessions with a psychologist and treatment at a private hospital.

We want to ensure that all our business partners offer proper work conditions for their employees to make sure that we are not participating in any form of forced labour, child labour and employment discrimination. We monitor our business partners across the world and do not tolerate violations of the Global Compact Labour principles.

We are aware of our responsibilities concerning our use of natural resources and our obligation as a company to the environment and society. We constantly strive to move in a more sustainable direction and we want to keep improving all of our workflows and question where our products and services come from. As a part of our green strategy, we have invested in a large solar panel system on the roof of our office building.

As a part of our initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility amongst our employees, we have policies concerning how they should handle trash and the importance of recycling. Hard plastic is currently being collected by the employees to be made into a chair.

In the last year, we have implemented the following principles:

- Improve our use of renewable energy. We have installed a solar panel system on our roof to produce electricity that covers almost 50% of our power consumption.

- Change the way we handle our waste. We now sort our waste in all the possible fractions to make the smallest impact on our environment.

- At POUL TARP A/S we are very set on to not, if possible, throw leftover food away from our lunch and encourage our employees to take any left rover food home with them.

- We encourage our employees to, if possible, bike to work.

As a part of our green strategy, we have invested in a large solar panel system on the roof of our office building. The solar panels produce enough electricity to cover up to 50% of our energy consumption. Since we have servers running 24/7 every day of the year, we are concerned with investing in and making use of sustainable energy solutions.

We will continue to work even more on reducing our impact on the environment through green solutions and alternatives.

As mentioned in our statement of continued support, we support the UN Convention Against Corruption. At POUL TARP A/S, we assess the of risk of corruption and bribery in our company’s industry and country of operation.

We have an open and critical dialogue with our business partners around the world to asses the risk of corruption when we do business. We also want to ensure that our business partners are committed to anti-corruption before entering business deals.

We continue to support the UN Convention Against Corruption and do not tolerate any corruption amongst our business partners. We have an open dialogue within the companies and with our business partners across the world and make it clear in our communication that we support the UN Convention Against Corruption.