Ethical Code

FORGING STEEL PRODUCTS promotes ethical and responsible behavior in the development of its activity, even beyond mandatory compliance with the law.

With this Code, the company FORGING STEEL PRODUCTS aims to promote ethical and responsible behavior in the development of its activity, even beyond mandatory compliance with the law.

The Code of Ethics is a reflection of the values ​​and principles that should guide the conduct and behavior of the people who belong to the company. Likewise, it must inspire the procedures and behaviors that regulate relationships with customers, employees, the environment and society in general.

FORGING STEEL PRODUCTS gives priority importance to compliance with this Code without exceptions to it. Therefore, all people who are part of the organization have the obligation to know and comply with these rules of conduct, and must commit to respecting the spirit of this document and to perform their role in the company not only in strict compliance with the legislation. . applicable, but avoiding and, where appropriate, denouncing any practice that is not ethically acceptable under strict criteria of honesty and moral integrity.

The content of the Code cannot address all possible situations, however, it has an inspiring principle that must govern the actions of employees: act with integrity and professionally in any situation that arises.

FORGING STEEL PRODUCTS expresses its most absolute rejection of any type of illicit and/or criminal practice, expressly stating that such practices are totally prohibited, without exception or limits within the company.

COMMITMENT TO OUR EMPLOYEES:

  • Act decisively against any form of discrimination based on sex, race, age, nationality, disability, ideology, religion or any other personal or social condition unrelated to their conditions of merit and capacity.
  • Do not allow any form of violence, harassment or abuse at work.
  • Treat each employee with dignity, respect and fairness.
  • Transparency, providing detailed management information.
  • Profitability, with a solid and future model.
  • Ensure that the company’s internal hiring and promotion policies are based on criteria of professional worth, linking the remuneration and promotion of employees to their conditions of merit and capacity.
  • Seek to reconcile work in the company with the personal and family life of employees.
  • Promote the development, training and professional promotion of employees by making the necessary tools available to them to perform the corresponding job.
  • FORGING STEEL PRODUCTS’ Policy is the Management of Occupational Risk Prevention, guaranteeing safety and hygiene at work and adopting all reasonable measures to maximize the prevention of occupational risks.

COMMITMENT OF OUR EMPLOYEES:

  • Comply with all internal operating rules, acting in a clear and transparent manner, ensuring that none of its actions can be interpreted as deception.
  • Use the facilities and work equipment with absolute respect and exclusively for the functions assigned to you.
  • Ensure the physical and intellectual property of the company.
  • No employee of this company will intentionally provide incorrect, inaccurate or imprecise information that may mislead the person receiving it.
  • Respect your colleagues and ensure harmony in the work environment.
  • Protect and prevent the disclosure of information under your responsibility. All the company’s strategic information, as well as any data about clients, shareholders, employees or suppliers that is accessed for work reasons, must be considered confidential and, consequently, treated as such.
  • Be an example of conduct abroad and feel proud to belong to the company.

COMMITMENT TO OUR CUSTOMERS:

  • Personalized attention and constant improvement in customer service through relationships based on trust and mutual respect.
  • Guarantee the products and services of our company and respond quickly and effectively to our customers’ complaints, seeking beyond mere compliance with current regulations.
  • Seek excellence in our products (continuous improvement) so that our customers obtain the expected satisfaction, at appropriate prices and meeting the agreed delivery time commitments.
  • Promote transparency and sufficient, truthful, timely and adequate information.

COMMITMENT TO OUR SUPPLIERS:

  • Search and select only suppliers whose business practices respect human dignity, do not violate the law, and do not jeopardize the company’s reputation.
  • Select suppliers based on the suitability of their products and/or services, as well as their price, delivery conditions and quality, not accepting or offering gifts or commissions, in cash or in kind, that may alter the rules of free competition. in the production and distribution of goods and/or services

COMMITMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENT:

  • Commit to the protection and respect of the environment, including the prevention of pollution, complying with applicable environmental legislation and regulations and other requirements such as the sustainable use of resources, adequate waste management, control of atmospheric emissions and discharges… thereby contributing to the mitigation of climate change and the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems and also to the continuous improvement of the environmental management system to improve environmental performance.

COMMITMENT TO SOCIETY:

  • Business based on absolute respect for human rights, free association and a resounding rejection of forced labor, child labor and discrimination, as described in the principles of the United Nations Code of Conduct.
  • Show, with the rest of society, the same values ​​that guide our daily work.

ANTI-CORRUPTION / BRIBERY COMMITMENT:

  • Publicly declare your commitment to acting ethically and transparently before your stakeholders, prohibiting at all times any behavior or practice of bribery, corruption or influence peddling in all your business relationships.
  • Conduct business in a socially responsible manner, prohibiting both employees and other interested parties, understood as clients, suppliers, shareholders, subcontractors,…, from making, offering or accepting bribes, payments or anything else with the purpose of improperly obtain or maintain contracts, businesses, tax regulations or any other improper business advantage.

For all this, the people who make up Forging Steel Products in their relationship with third parties cannot offer or accept gifts or hospitality that go beyond the purely symbolic or that could be interpreted as an attempt to improperly influence a commercial, professional or relationship. administrative.

Expenses or services that may be considered customary or customary in the market, in reasonable amounts taking into account their nature, frequency and amount, are not included in this prohibition. 

BREACH OF THE ETHICAL CODE: 

FORGING STEEL PRODUCTS has “zero tolerance” for non-compliance and will take disciplinary action in accordance with the applicable Labor Agreement (Bizkaia Metal Convention) against personnel who violate the laws, this code of conduct or the organization’s policies.

COMUNICATION CHANNEL: 

FORGING STEEL PRODUCTS facilitates all people who are part of the organization, as well as the rest of the interested parties, to ask questions and report irregularities or non-compliance that lack ethics, integrity or violate the guidelines established in the Code of Ethics, to through the following channels or any other means that the group may establish in the future:

· Email: canaldedenuncias@forgingsteelproducts.com
· Postal adress:
  Forging Steel Products, S.L
  Bº Arregui, s/n
  48340 Amorebieta (Bizkaia)
· Suggestion box

The processing of notifications and queries corresponds to the compliance officer and will be studied and treated confidentially. The data of the participants will be managed in accordance with the provisions of the applicable laws for data protection.

Reprisals committed against those who have made use, in good faith, of the ethical channel to report possible irregularities will not be tolerated.