Quality, health, safety, and environment policy 2024-2027
Quality, health, safety, and environment policy 2024-2027
Our Customer satisfaction, our goal.
Pierre Guerin is certified ISO 9001 by Bureau Veritas.
Quality
PIERRE GUERIN's mission, within the EQUANS / BOUYGUES group, is to design, manufacture, commission, and provide after-sales support for stainless steel equipment, tanks, and process lines for the food and biopharmaceutical industries.
Our Quality Management System has been continuously enhanced with evolving regulations, increasingly demanding customer requirements, ongoing improvement projects, and various certifications successfully acquired. This has enabled us to fully satisfy our customers and win new markets.
In these internationally competitive industrial markets, we are recognized as a leader and meet our customers' challenges through the commitment of our expert and reliable teams while adhering to our values:
PIERRE GUERIN's challenges and objectives for 2027
During 2023, employees from all PIERRE GUERIN Group entities contributed to defining a new corporate vision with the ambition of becoming an international player in innovation and operational excellence, for sustainable growth with defined revenue and profitability targets by 2027 and commitments to health, safety, and the environment.
To achieve our objectives while respecting our commitments, we have defined resources and organized our actions around several themes, enabling PIERRE GUERIN Group entities to be:
• innovative entities
• competitive entities
• eco-responsible entities
• great places to work
• while digitizing our processes
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Health and safety are essential to our company's strategy and concern both our employees and those who work on our behalf.
We must do everything we can to ensure everyone returns home safe and sound.
PIERRE GUERIN is committed to continuing its actions aimed at reducing the frequency and severity of accidents and limiting safety risks across all its activities, with objectives defined in the company's management process for 2027.
Our priority actions focus on:
Health:
- Ensuring that employees have an adequate level of safety and health through accreditations, training, and appropriate medical monitoring
- Raising awareness among all employees of risks, particularly those related to their work, whether within the company or on client sites
- Conducting an analysis of accidents and critical situations to identify prevention strategies
- Encouraging all individual initiatives and proposals regarding safety prevention
Safety:
This approach can only be successful with the active involvement of all staff. Everyone at their level must be familiar with our procedures and adhere to them.
The exemplary behaviour of all employees, their suggestions, their reporting of anomalies and malfunctions will enable us to continually improve our safety performance.
ENVIRONMENT
At PIERRE GUERIN, we recognize our responsibility to the environment and are committed to minimizing our environmental impact through our industrial operations.
This environmental policy defines our commitment to promoting sustainable practices and continually improving our environmental performance with the following objectives:
• Legal Compliance: Ensure compliance with all applicable environmental laws, regulations, and standards.
• Pollution Prevention: Reduce emissions, discharges, and waste generated by our activities.
• Resource Efficiency: Optimize the use of natural resources, including energy, water, and raw materials.
• Awareness and Training: Train and raise awareness among our employees about environmental issues and their role in protecting the environment.
• Continuous Improvement: Regularly evaluate our environmental performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
PIERRE GUERIN's management is committed to providing the necessary resources to implement this environmental policy and to supporting all initiatives aimed at:
• Waste Management: Implementing waste reduction, reuse, and recycling programs. We are committed to managing waste responsibly and minimizing its volume.
• Energy and Emissions: Improving the energy efficiency of our operations and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. We will prioritize renewable energy sources whenever possible.
• Sustainable Products and Services: Designing our products and services to minimize their environmental impact throughout their life cycle.
• Suppliers and Partners: Encouraging our suppliers and partners to adopt environmentally friendly practices.
• Water Conservation: Implementing water management practices to reduce consumption and prevent pollution.
IMPLEMENTATION
PIERRE GUERIN's management is responsible for implementing this policy, which will be rolled out across all PIERRE GUERIN Group entities and its components: Quality, Health and Safety, and Environment. Every PIERRE GUERIN employee is required to comply with the principles set out in this policy. The objectives related to this policy are stipulated in the PIERRE GUERIN dashboard.
This policy will be communicated to all employees, suppliers, customers, and other relevant stakeholders.
We will implement performance indicators to track our progress and evaluate the effectiveness of our initiatives. Regular internal audits will be conducted to ensure compliance with this policy.
REVISION MARCH 4, 2025
This policy will be reviewed annually to ensure it remains relevant and effective in relation to our activities and applicable legal requirements.