| To sustain the success and long-term business growth, the company must have a capability to apply management techniques to include business ethics and good corporate governance. Among several aspects, social responsibility is one that SVI gives a priority to. SVI always encourages its staff to continually participate and contribute in social activities. |
| 1. Social Contribution |
SVI would like to be one of the social to lead Thailand being a sustainable developed society. Thus, the Company continually conducted the ‘Prescription Eyeglasses Project’, which has been started since 2010, providing eye examinations and eyeglasses free of charge to those underprivileged children in Angthong Province in 2011. We are also planning to expand to cover all nationwide. The company organized some activities with employees as to generate some income donated to “Oldster Nursing Home” at Ampur Muang, Kanchanaburi Province. |
| 2. Health, Safety and Environmental Management (ISO 14001 & OHSAS 18001) |
SVI has emphasized an environmental management program and strictly complies with the government’s environmental regulations, as well as continually improving its own environmental management system and participating with the communities, for a better life of its employees, and society. The company has the goal to improve environmental clearly, such as energy saving program and continually complying the international standard accepted practices (ISO 14001) and applying new technology for improvement of machine and production process as to minimize the impact on environmental in order to sustain and develop the environment long term. With the Occupational Health and Safety aspect, the company strives to run the business under the international safety working environment standard (OHSAS 18001) which has been certified in April 2011 finally. Moreover, SVI emphasizes on prevention of working accident by cascade the policy to every function and to examine for safety purpose, providing the personal protective tools and designate the accidental report concerning type of accident, investigation, analysis and create the prevention measurement including campaign and promoted by various safety activities to motivate employee’s safety consciousness e.g. publicize of occupational health and safety news or/and articles, poster and working safety handbook etc. These result in achieving target of “Zero Accident”. With regarding to sanitation, company always encourages our employee to keep healthy and focus on health care e.g. campaigning “ do not drive drunk”, by inviting the expertise to examine and provide the advice, including the instructive on cleanliness and sanitation to the in house food / soft drink vendors. The company also provides the annual physical check up for employees, subcontractors and in house food / soft drink vendors. |