QEMC Corporate Social Responsibility
QEMC is highly committed to corporate social responsibility (CSR), which involves fulfilling its social responsibility as a corporate, respecting the environment and building advanced and flourishing communities. The company's CSR efforts are aimed at contributing meaningfully to social, economic, and environmental performance, while meeting regulatory requirements and customers' highest levels of satisfaction.
QEMC has adopted the highest standards of social commitment as an essential element in its business, with an emphasis on sustainability and the environment. The company's CSR goals include representing new growth opportunities in business and society, contributing to overcoming global challenges, meeting the highest standards of safeguarding the environment, providing effective solutions that benefit partners and the community, building productive cooperation to increase sales and customer loyalty, and developing the best strategies to respect cultures and laws of communities where they operate.
QEMC's management team combines advanced technology with the expertise of its employees to help solve social problems through its Social Innovation Business, which supports domestic entrepreneurs and companies outside of Qatar who want to invest in the economy and drive innovation and progress. The company is proud of its programs and partnerships across key areas of Qatar's 2030 Vision, including international best practices.
Overall, this statement demonstrates QEMC's commitment to CSR and commitment to making a positive contribution to society, the environment and the economy while meeting the highest performance standards.
1. Environmental Program
QEMC considers the environmental factors involved in the overall impact of construction & project execution and the potential risks and challenges it faces because of ecological issues, such as climate change and measures to protect natural resources. Environmental, social and governance criteria include the following:
- Energy consumption and efficiency.
- Carbon footprint, including greenhouse gas emissions
- Waste management. (Ref: QEMC-HSE-MS- EPW-001-V1 Environmental protection and waste management procedure)
- Air and water pollution
- Biodiversity loss
- Deforestation
- Natural resource depletion
2. Social - Human right and Social Community & society
QEMC Social factors address and treat different groups of people -- employees, suppliers, customers, community members and more. The criteria used include these examples:
- Fair pay for employees, including a living wage
- Worker committee
- Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
- Employee experience and engagement.
- Workplace health and safety.
- Data protection and privacy policies.
- Fair treatment of customers and suppliers.
- Customer satisfaction levels.
- Community relations, including the organization's connection to and impact On the local communities in which we operates.
- Funding of individual, projects and/or institutions that help poor and underserved communities.
- Support for human rights and labor standards.
3. Governance
QEMC examines governance factors in the company policies, focusing on internal controls and practices to maintain compliance with regulations, industry best practices and corporate policies.
Examples include the following:
- Company leadership and management.
- Board composition, including its diversity and structure.
- Executive compensation policies.
- Financial transparency and business integrity.
- Regulatory compliance and risk management initiatives.
- Ethical business practices.
- Rules on corruption, bribery, conflicts of interest, and political donations and lobbying.