Corporate Responsibility Report 2008

The Vaisala Group Corporate Responsibility report 2008, the first of its kind, has given us an opportunity to look into our organization from a new perspective. As Vaisala is all about accurate environmental measurements, environmental responsibility has always been close to our hearts. Now we want to show our stakeholders that we conduct all our business in an equally responsible way.

Vaisala has based its corporate responsibility reporting upon Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI G3) universal guidelines. We believe that GRI helps us write a good report, and shows our commitment to responsible business. We have self-declared this report to GRI Application level C, which has been confirmed by GRI.

Vaisala is committed to continuous CR reporting. Reports will be published  on an annual basis, reporting for the full calendar year, in this case 2008. Following the GRI boundary guidelines, our financial and human resource data is reported group wide, but our environmental data is subject to availability and therefore limited to our Head office and manufacturing site in Vantaa, Finland.

While assembling information from across the organization, we have come to realize that we need to merge different reporting styles into one coherent reporting method. This is something we aim to develop further in following reports. As for now, all our sites and products are covered by a certified environmental management system based on ISO 14001.

Furthermore, even if most information concerning our employees is managed globally, local regulations and procedures sometimes make comparing data between offices difficult. Information on staff training, absenteeism, and local benefits are monitored and reported differently in almost each office. In order to focus on the most prevalent information in the organization, offices with ten employees or less have been omitted from this year’s report with regard to the abovementioned statistics.