Environmental

Olsen’s aim is always for its activities to have minimal impact on the planet’s biodiversity, habitats, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change. Olsen regularly monitors its impact and, where possible, will seek to minimise these. We aim to meet or exceed the UK’s objective of being Net Zero by 2050. We are committed to reducing waste through recycling and, where practical, reliving equipment through second-life charities.

Social

The Board, the Management Team and the main service providers will ensure that all employment engagements are subject to the employment laws and practices of England & Wales. Olsen does not condone or tolerate bribes or the use of child labour and modern slavery and ensures through regular auditing this through to our engagement with its suppliers. (Our Modern Slavery and Anti-Bribery policies can be downloaded here: Modern Slavery // Anti-bribery)

At Olsen, we are committed to providing a safe and respectful working environment for all staff, contractors and customers with teamwork and training central to the philosophy that we all grow as a team. We regularly hold teambuilding and social events throughout the calender year and strive to ensure everyone is included with a variety of functions planned.

Governance

Olsen believes in an open, transparent, and safe working environment and recognises and has a Whistleblowing policy that ensures that anyone suspected of breaching rules and/or ethical policies can be investigated with robust action taken as appropriate all whilst ensuring Whistleblowers are protected. Olsen will ensure that any engagement with lobbying groups is aligned with our climate change and other sustainability commitments as well as our shareholders’ corporate commitments.

Olsen operates internal processes to eliminate fraudulent activity including a twin independent approaval where required for such things as purchasing, expenses, bank transactions, etc…

Olsen and all its Board members are compliant with the highest anti-corruption standards and do not condone or tolerate unethical behaviour at any organisational level. Olsen has a zero-tolerance approach to bribes, money Laundering activity, and tax evasion and operates rigorous financial controls to support this policy. This policy applies equally to all levels of the organisation, particularly when dealing with public officers, including contractors and subcontractors.

The Olsen Board includes a remuneration committee which meets as required to approve compensation matters. Shareholder approval is required for a number of reserved matters including the approval of employee packages which exceed a certain threshold.

Olsen’s Board of Directors agree to share any information which may result in a conflict of interest for Olsen corporately and the individual board members themselves with transparency between each other central to this.

Olsen maintains a Cyber Security Essentials Plus certification adheres to The Data Protection Act 2018 and will ensure that all personal and private data held is kept with the strictest confidence and only used for the purposes it was intended.