All policies, including this Code, arise from our Core Values. These common values must therefore inspire all our actions and decisions, and provide a benchmark for everyone involved.
Our Core Values are:
Integrity
We behave with integrity and in an ethical manner in everything we do and say, thereby earning and maintaining the trust and respect of customers, shareholders, suppliers, colleagues, partners and communities.
Commitment to Excellence
Our commitment is to demonstrate excellence in all spheres of our work and in our interactions with customers, shareholders, suppliers, colleagues, partners and communities. In addition, we commit to exercising judgment, professionalism, rigour, self-discipline, perseverance and team spirit.
Customer Orientation
We promote a customer-centred culture that emphasizes outstanding service and meets our commitments at every level of our organization.
Shareholder Focus
We are focused on creating sustainable shareholder value through developing profitable products and projects, and soundly managing the business for the benefit of customers, shareholders, suppliers, colleagues, partners and communities.
Maintaining ethical and honest behaviour
Our reputation for integrity is perhaps our most valuable business asset. If we lose it, we also lose the trust of our customers and all those who work with us.
Our principles
We shall believe in establishing enduring and equal relationships with all our stakeholders, because we’re confident that good ethics leads to good business.
We shall always set out to act in our customers’ interests, to the highest standards of excellence, never gaining advantage through dishonest or uncompetitive means.
We depend on the skills, excellence and goodwill of those who work with us. We make sure their standards and practices are consistent with ours.
We shall never seek to bully or cheat our contractors or suppliers, and ensure they are