Ensuring a safe and healthy working environment

 

Island Offshore believes that creating a diverse and inclusive working environment where all employees feel valued and have equal career opportunities is not only the right thing to do but financially beneficial for our business. Our ambition is to have highly qualified employees that can execute our strategy and deliver high quality services.

 
 
 

  • UN Sustainable Development Goal #3:

    Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages:

    We are committed to ensure a high level of safety involvement of all employees. By promoting and maintaining a safe and healthy working environment we aim to avoid accidents and harm to people. Monitoring employees and hired workers HSE practices and injury frequency rates are important concerns. Security matters relate to piracy, cyber security and other threats to assets or crew.


  • UN Sustainable Development Goal #8:

    Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all:

    Compliance with labour and human rights standards is important to support worker’s rights. Monitoring and reporting include description of policies and approaches to labour and human rights for employees and contracted workers in the value chain. 

     

  • UN Sustainable Development Goal #10:

    Reduce inequality within and among countries:

    Inequality within and among countries persist and has been reinforced during the pandemic. The most vulnerable groups are hit hardest therefore need our support and solidarity. We must adopt policies and business strategies that promote equality. 

 
 
 

Photo: Stig Silden

 
 

Island Offshore promotes respect for basic human rights and decent working conditions in connection with our vessel operations.  This work impacts many of our stakeholders including those who can be adversely affected by our business.

We base our due diligence on recommendations and guidance issued by the Norwegian Consumer Protection Authority, hereto the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the accompanying guide for due diligence.

 The essential pillars of this work are:

  • Ensuring corporate responsibility is implemented in our work procedures and Safety Management System

  • Mapping and assessing potential negative impact from our activities including our value chain and business relations

  • Implementing actions to prevent, mitigate or reduce negative impact

  • Monitor execution and results

  • Communicate how we work

  • Follow-up rectification where applicable

 

The Island Offshore Code of Conduct is designed to promote accountability and give guidance on our standards to employees and other stakeholders.

 


The Norwegian Transparency Act / Openheitslova

The Norwegian Transparency Act shall promote companies' respect for fundamental human rights and decent working conditions in connection with the production of goods and the provision of services.

Any member of the public has the right to information about how businesses deal with negative consequences for fundamental human rights and decent working conditions, caused or contributed to by the company itself, or directly linked with the company’s operations or services via the supply chain or business partners. The Transparency Act requires thus enterprises to conduct due diligence assessments, meaning that they must look at both their own business, their supply chain and their business partners to find out where the biggest risks are.

You will find Island Offshore’s due diligence report in Norwegian, as required by the authorities.

All requests regarding this work must be made in writing, addressed to: transparency@islandoffshore.com

 

The activity duty and the duty to issue a statement

The activity duty for employers is described by the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud as HES-work (health, environment and security work) in the field of equality and anti-discrimination. 

All Norwegian employers are obliged to work actively, targeted and systematically to promote equality and prevent discrimination in the workplace. The employer activity duty is preventative work that employers are expected to do before incidents of discrimination occur.

The general activity duty states that all employers must identify and address challenges regarding equality and diversity in the workplace before any incidents of discrimination take place.