Several thousand environmental, health and safety professionals gather each year to get caught up on the latest trends and research. This group comes from the public and private sectors as well as academic and government arenas and has placed CSR/Sustainability near the top of its agenda in terms of being adequately prepared in the 21st century workplace.
Scattered throughout their sessions on disaster recovery, health and wellness, nanomaterials, and ergonomics, I’ve been asked to come and help cover some topics ranging from Sustainability 101, the G3 standard and transparency, and implementing sustainability in a global MNC.
It’s a good opportunity for me to remind myself of some of the foundations of CSR. If companies can’t operate in an environmentally responsible way and send their employees home in at least as good shape as they arrived to the workplace, how can they ever expect to be true CSR leaders? Sometimes with all the external focus on communicating CSR and competition over who has the best branded social entrepreneurship program, I hope companies aren’t taking their eye off their own operations.
Let’s face it; you have to be a CSR leader inside your own walls before you can be perceived as a CSR leader by others.
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