Corporate Responsibility
The Unipart Way 2019/20
Welcome to Corporate Responsibility
The Unipart Way, the latest report on our responsible business activity at Unipart Group.
At Unipart we have a firm commitment to doing well by doing good. Our customers, our people, our industry partners, and the communities in which we operate are best served when all of our long-term prosperity and sustainability is intertwined.
This belief has been at the heart of Unipart’s ethos for more than three decades, living those values every day through our philosophy of employee engagement and continuous improvement The Unipart Way.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Covid
People
Community
Planet
Governance
Contents
£800m
A global company
Turnover
headquartered in Oxford, UK
Unipart’s strategy is aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
8,000
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Employees
• Encouraging discussion
• Improving financial awareness
• Encourage planning and saving
• Wellbeing Champions on site to lead internal awareness programmes, signpost colleagues to help and support, and lead in the wellbeing arena for all colleagues
• CSR/Wellbeing calendar established, which focuses on key awareness days/months, highlighting key issues that our colleagues may experience and need support with throughout their career with Unipart
• We maintain strong connections with local schools and educational facilities
• We offer Apprenticeships and Graduate Schemes
• We actively drive policies and procedures to close the gender pay gap over time
• We support those who are working carers to be able to participate in work and be remunerated fairly for their work
• Water consumption targets and activities
• Provision of clean safe drinking water at our sites in India
• Use of renewables
• Battery technology research
• Encourage use of fuel efficient cars
• Electric car charging points at Unipart sites
• Apprenticeships and Graduate Schemes
• Human Rights and employment of young people
• Health and Safety
• Advanced Institute of Manufacturing and Engineering - Unipart's unique collaboration with Coventry University to equip engineering students with skills and experience for the workplace
• We have introduced a Diversity and Inclusion Steering group to support ongoing work into the area of Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
• We celebrate a diverse workforce through multiple CSR activities such as religious festival celebrations and luncheons
• We have policies, which establish our fundamental duties to our people and ensuring we reduce inequality by following our policies
• Hyperbat - a joint venture between Unipart and Williams Advanced Engineering to produce electric vehicle batteries
• Electric car charging points at Unipart sites
• Engaging our customers in responsible behaviours
• Supporting our customers’ CSR programmes
• Reporting on our reduction in gas, electricity, CO2 and water consumption
• E-car charging points at all UK sites.
• Reducing plastic and reporting on waste recycled
• Anti-slavery
• Anti-bribery and corruption
• Anti-racism Policy
• Human Rights Policy
• EDIBs Agenda
• B4 Oxford business network
• Lifeworks
• Salary Finance
• Make UK
• CBI
Many Unipart sites continued to deliver essential services throughout the pandemic, including Unipart Logistics for the NHS Supply Chain and Unipart Rail supporting national infrastructures in the UK and around the globe.
Unipart introduced Covid-Secure safety measures ahead of UK Government guidelines. Unipart leadership met daily to navigate rapidly-changing circumstances.
Covid-19
In November 2020, Unipart won a Covid Comms Award for the best in-house corporate communications response to the pandemic
Hosted digitally and available to all Unipart employees, the Roadmap to Return continues to provide employees with the latest safety guidelines and policy updates.
In May 2020, Unipart published its Roadmap to Return, a comprehensive playbook of Covid-Secure working practices.
In our 2020 employee engagement survey:
86%
The Unipart Way
is central to engaging employees at every level of the organisation.
Digital Communication Cells enable employees to play an active role in continuous improvement across the organisation
of employees responded
Employees have a world class level
of satisfaction according to Gallup
People
Weekly videos and articles where employees share wellbeing experiences and learning
Employee and family assistance provider gives 24/7 access to confidential support on financial, emotional, physical and mental wellbeing
Our network of Wellbeing Champions supports leaders and employees across our sites
Unipart WorkWell supports employees’ total wellbeing
Unipart Rail achieved a British Safety Council five-star rating in their Occupational Health and Safety Audit
Unipart strives for world-class health and safety.
Health and Safety
In 2019/20 Unipart was awarded the British Safety Council Sword of Honour. Since 2011, we have won 57 ‘Swords’, more than any other company in our sector
Was crowned the overall country UK and Ireland winner in the British Safety Council International Safety Awards 2020
Unipart’s engagement with the wider community is based on four principles:
Is the partnership consistent with our values and culture?
Does it have measurable benefits on both sides?
Does it have clear partnership objectives?
Is there measurable progress of the partnership and value?
Community
Unipart’s partnership with Oxford Food Hub, announced in August 2019, demonstrates these four principles in action.
Unipart Group chairman John Neill is the longest-serving Business in the Community Board of Trustees Director
Unipart Group Corporate Affairs Director Frank Nigriello is the Prince’s Responsible Business Ambassador for South East England
Oxford Food Hub saves food from landfill by redistributing it to charities
The volunteers calculated Oxford Food Hub saves £1m of food from landfill each, a positive message the charity shared with its stakeholders
Unipart is a member of the National Business Response Network, offering crisis management advice and support to businesses
Oxford Food Hub
Unipart volunteers spent time at Oxford Food Hub improving their processes using The Unipart Way
Business in the Community
Unipart sponsors the Responsible Business Awards Outstanding Achievement category
Unipart is committed to managing business operations in a sustainable and environmentally sound manner.
More information about our environmental objectives can be found in our Environmental Policy.
Total waste generated went up marginally by 1% compared to 2018. Improvement initiatives
are being implemented such as removal of single use plastics in Unipart Rail division and engaging the supply chain to reduce the amount of packaging
Planet
Reducing waste
Reducing CO2
Carbon emissions reduced by 28% overall reflecting improvements in electricity and gas usage, and the change in government CO2 conversion factors to reflect decreasing dependence on fossil fuels also helped
Reducing electricity
Electricity usage went down by 13%. There were improvements across all sites. Kautex Unipart switched off extruders when not required and have made process improvements resulting in reduced compressed air usage
Reducing water use
Water usage went down by 24% due to installation of push taps, proactive water usage audits and general awareness. Increase in water usage at Unipart Powertrain Applications due to an increase in the number of pipe washers and wash frequencies
The British Safety Council bestowed its highest environmental honour on Unipart Logistics, awarding the division the Globe of Honour in both 2019 & 2020
Accreditation
In addition, Unipart Logistics scored over 95% in the British Safety Council Five Star Environmental Sustainability Audit in 2020 – its highest ever rating
Unipart Rail achieved an Ecovadis silver award sustainability rating
Unipart is uniquely positioned to make a positive impact in the growing electric vehicle market.
Unipart Manufacturing’s joint venture with Williams Advanced Engineering called Hyperbat, produces batteries for high-performance electric vehicles
Unipart Logistics is an in-production and aftermarket logistics partner to a host of premium automotive brands and their electrification including Tesla, Volkswagen Group UK and Mercedez-Benz
Unipart Dorman removed 13km of plastic from signal packaging
Unipart is committed to being part of a circular economy. In 2019/20:
Unipart Logistics removed 127 tonnes of single use plastic from the Sky customer’s supply chain
Unipart Logistics won an Automotive Global Award 2020 for removing plastic from a premium automotive customer’s supply chain
Employee wellbeing and diversity & inclusion commitments in 2021
Governance and assurance
Unipart's corporate responsibility objectives for the coming year and beyond
Unipart's 2030 carbon neutral objective
John Neill
Group Chairman and Chief Executive
Darren Leigh
Chief Financial Officer
Deborah Astles
Director of Corporate and Social Responsibility
Laura Duthie
HR Specialist – Corporate and Social Responsibility
John Greatrex
HR Director
Frank Nigriello
Corporate Affairs Director
Andy Pyne
Unipart Logistics Operations Director
Kirsty Summerby
Director of Health and Safety
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