Our Commitments
Ethical Behaviour
Everyone at Sepura aims to conduct business to the highest ethical standards of practice and legal principles, and employees and business partners are expected to demonstrate high standards of professionalism and integrity at all times in support of Sepura’s core values of customer focus, integrity, teamwork, quality and innovation.
We have implemented a code of business conduct and ethics, including a whistle-blowing policy, covering the whole of the business and our various stakeholder interests. This is regularly reviewed and reiterated to staff and business partners.
Human Rights
We respect all human rights and adhere to all relevant government guidelines, taking practical steps to ensure that our products are not supplied to organisations that may use them to advance terrorism, internal repression or otherwise abuse human rights.
Modern Slavery
As part of our commitment to corporate social responsibility and human rights, we have taken action to understand all potential modern slavery risks related to our business and to put in place steps that are aimed at ensuring that there is no slavery or human trafficking in our business or its supply chain.
Further details can be found in our Modern Slavery statement in accordance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
Conflict Minerals
We have taken action to understand and tackle the risk of the use of “Conflict Minerals” in our products and supply chain, to ensure that all the minerals included in our products are obtained from socially and environmentally responsible sources that do not directly or indirectly contribute to conflict, or benefit or finance armed groups.
Further details set out in our statement on Conflict Minerals.
Employee Relations
As a business driven largely by technical development and innovation, our main assets lie in the talent and skills of our people. We aim to attract, retain and motivate the highest calibre of employee by encouraging and rewarding high performance through competitive remuneration and incentives.
Sepura is committed to providing learning and development opportunities for our employees. Formal performance reviews are conducted annually, with two-way communication being actively encouraged.
All UK employees are given the opportunity to join our Corporate Private Healthcare and Dental schemes. We also offer free influenza injections and all staff members have free access to a stress counselling service.
Regular company-wide social events are organised and promoted by our Social Committee, many of which encourage the inclusion of our employee’s families. Learn more about life at Sepura here.
Equality and Diversity
We are committed to providing equality of opportunity to all existing and prospective employees. We are supportive of the employment and advancement of disabled workers, giving full and fair consideration to job applications and making appropriate arrangements for flexible working requests and career development of existing employees.
We aim to create and sustain an inclusive environment for all our employees and annually publish our Gender Pay Gap Report. We are committed to addressing the gender imbalance within our industry and are taking practical steps to make improvements.
Health and Safety
We are committed to protecting the health and safety of our employees, and third parties who visit our sites, as well as having a positive influence on our supply chain throughout the world.
We are legally compliant and, where appropriate, work to exceed these requirements to provide safe working environments and a robust programme of occupational health management.
To support this ethos, we use a Health & Safety Management System which identifies risks. These risks are continuously monitored and reviewed, then eliminated or reduced with control measures which are communicated to all relevant stakeholders.
Management Commitment
We aim to achieve excellence by meeting customer expectations as well as regulatory, legislative and contractual requirements, including those from governments, in addition to other requirements deemed appropriate.
Industrial Batteries
We are a supplier of Lithium Ion and Lithium Polymer industrial batteries under the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009. We are obliged to take back free of charge, waste industrial batteries supplied to an end user for treatment and recycling.
We are required to do this in any calendar year we place new industrial batteries on the market. If any of our customers or in certain cases other end users, require us to take back industrial batteries, they should contact us at customer.support@sepura.com or on +44 1223 876000. We will agree the necessary arrangements for the return, proper treatment and recycling of the waste industrial batteries.