SUSTAINABILITY AT NITRAS

Since 1986, we have been your reliable partner for personal protective equipment and workwear. 

Since then, our goal has been to protect people's health and the environment and to make life easier. As an owner-managed, medium-sized company from Bedburg, we are at home in the Rhineland and supply our products from here to the whole of Germany and over 40 countries worldwide. Our close ties to the people and the region, as well as our close national and international partnerships, are not a contradiction in terms for us, but an everyday reality that we live and love. Targeted investments in product diversity, logistics and our environment have helped us grow as a company both economically and in terms of sustainability. For us, social, economic and ecological responsibility are important building blocks for a credible and future-oriented corporate orientation.

In our sustainability report, we inform you about all the issues that affect us as a company. For this purpose, we have put our entire company and the entire supply chain to the test. We have already been able to implement many of the measures we will present to you - others will follow. A task force on sustainability, consisting of employees from various departments, makes it possible to look at aspects from the most diverse directions and to bring up corresponding points for discussion. The goal is to continuously develop and implement meaningful and effective measures.

Here you can find the complete sustainability report.

Our guiding principles:

We always demand the highest quality standards, which also go beyond legal requirements. At every step and in all processes, we strive to meet and constantly improve our requirements. To meet our quality standards, close and trusting cooperation with all our partners is imperative. To ensure this, we have developed guiding principles that define a uniform framework for this:

✓ Management practices that respect the rights of all employees.
✓ Providing a safe and healthy workplace for all employees.
✓ Providing safe products for all partners
✓ Minimising negative impacts on the environment.

We summarise our guiding principles and core standards in a Code of Conduct.

You can find the complete "Code of Conduct" here.

The AS Arbeitsschutz GmbH reporting portal can be used to anonymously report possible incidents along the supply chain and/or environmentally relevant issues. More information and the exact procedure can be found here.

2022 NITRAS was also awarded the Silver Medal for sustainable commitment. EcoVadis, the world's leading provider of corporate sustainability ratings, certifies that our company consistently achieves above-average results in the four assessed topics of environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement.

Our environmental protection policy:

AS Arbeitsschutz GmbH has expressly set itself the goal of acting in harmony with our environment in all entrepreneurial activities and thus making a decisive contribution to protecting and preserving it. In order to realise our claim, we have defined environmental guidelines as binding contents of our business policy.

Here you can find the complete environmental protection policy.

Our core standards:

In addition to our guiding principles, which form the cornerstone for close and trusting cooperation, we have developed and specified core standards that complement and build on them. These can be divided into three areas:

✓Social ethical aspects
✓Banned and/or restricted substances and allergens
✓Ecological sustainability

SUSTAINABILITY AT THE PRODUCTION SITES

We attach great importance to working with production partners who can demonstrate certifications and audits that respect the human and labour rights of the employees and ensure the health safety of the raw materials, such as the BSCI audit, SA8000 and OEKO-Tex. In addition, we also look at the company's infrastructure to determine how, for example, water is treated or how energy is provided to the company. These are all parameters, in addition to the quality of the product, which flow into the evaluation of the company.

In all quality control and sustainability measures, our main goals are to protect people's health as well as the environment and to make life easier. Every product, whether clothing, protective gloves, safety shoes, etc., is subject to strict quality requirements, which are constantly checked by a multi-stage quality control system.

What you can rely on with NITRAS:

✓ Certified and / or audited productions
✓ Quality inspection
✓ Sustainability

Exemplary procedure:

→ Inspection of raw materials and starting materials
→ Quality check of the finished goods
→ Transport of the goods to the central warehouse in Bedburg
→ Incoming goods inspection by product management
→ Goods are released for sale

 
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