GROHE environmental, health & safety management system

Already in May 2000, the GROHE Group Environmental Policy was initially adopted. It was setting out the company’s strategic objectives in relation to environmental protection. In February 2008 the environmental principles and guidelines were extended to further sustainability topics, like health & safety, to document the high importance within the company.
These objectives provide a framework and direction for sustainability related actions and continuous improvement in all areas of the company.

Integrated management system for quality, environmental, health & safety

Quality management, environmental protection and health & safety (EHS) go hand-in-hand at GROHE. EHS management has not been set up in isolation from the quality management system, but rather integrated into all relevant procedures. This means that, where possible, EHS aspects have been accounted for in existing regulations and that additional documents, such as new Working Instructions, have been avoided.

Responsibility

The Executive Director Corporate Development & Personel has responsibility for the entire corporate EHS programmes in the GROHE Group, and he delegates the tasks involved to plant managers, department heads and to the managers of branches and subsidiaries.

EHS managers and officers are responsible for the implementation of the management system in the corporate departments, plants, branches and subsidiaries.

Plant managers and department heads are responsible for EHS-related plant and equipment in the departments. The foremen are given the tasks of monitoring and support. The important elements
are regulated in a catalogue of tasks and duties.

Plant EHS managers head working groups which discuss the implementation of the required steps and introduce EHS targets and actions into plant planning and planning for the entire Group.

The EHS managers in the GROHE Group meet at regular intervals to discuss procedures and to exchange experiences.