The Gum Base Co. top management believes it is essential to run the business by the following principles:
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Health and Safety
- Prevent risks at source by reducing the likelihood of occurrence, through developing and evaluating products and materials, improving operating procedures and equipment;
- Continue to improve the focus on excellence in terms of working environments and tools – equipment, making them safer, more ergonomic and ensuring long term sustainability for operations;
- Encourage all employees’ active involvement and participation in developing a cultural that favours improved processes and control of preventative aspects also through employee health and safety representatives;
- Motivate all employees in promoting safe behaviour and healthy habits in the workplace and in everyday life;
- Achieve and maintain a level of zero injuries whilst analysing all events so as to prevent possible accidents reported through development and implementation, as well as assessing efficiency of plans for improvement;
- Insist that health and safety awareness training and competency specific training activities be carried out by all personnel;
- Ensure that all contractors, autonomous professionals asked to operate in the company and visitors recognize, embrace and practice our values;
- Oversee that all prevention and protection measures foreseen by our operational procedures are carefully followed by all employees, supervisors, managers, directors and employer’s representative;
- Set objectives and monitor performances to guarantee continuous improvement of results and our way of operating
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Care for the environment and long term sustainability
- Source solutions to help save energy and encourage the use of renewable sources of energy;
- Support initiatives to collect and recycle packaging;
- Reduce non-recyclable landfill waste;
- Provide the workforce, including all contractors, with information on environmental aspects with a goal to raise awareness of impact on the environment.
- Increase awareness of each and everybody’s role within the company, providing specific environmental training in line with each role;
- Regularly assess the environmental performance and safety standards to provide improvement where necessary;
- Be transparent about commitment, also asking suppliers to comply with environmental laws and where possible, giving preference to those suppliers who are ISO 14001 certified or equivalent;
- Ensure the commitment to improving the long term environmental performances during both design and future development of business;
- Actively protect the ecosystem.
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Staff and the working environment
- Manage Human Resources through concrete actions aimed at their continuous development, therefore granting success to the company according to the highest standard;
- Guarantee a truly diverse and inclusive working environment, where diversity is valued and discrimination, in any way, shape or form is not tolerated;
- Encourage a stimulating working environment, where trust, cooperation, creativity and development reign supreme and where personal contribution is supported;
- Spread awareness that every single employee is an active part of company life, and therefore responsible to promote its basic principles and actively contribute to its success;
- Further personnel growth and development opportunities through direct involvement in projects and specific development programs;
- Support teamwork as a way of inspiring and delivering on a set of common goals;
- Recognize and reward competencies and performance.
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Food Safety
- Manufacture gum bases which guarantee maximum respect of the highest and strictest applicable food safety standards;
- Maintain existing Certifications – BRC, HACCP/GMP, to publish our commitment to supplying safe products, according to the most advanced management systems, constantly at the forefront of the companyl;
- Keep a high focus on scientific and technologic developments that may influence the raw materials used in our products;
- Invest in activities/equipment for the monitoring and evaluation of the food safety aspects of our raw materials;
- Keep all training for company departments updated to ensure that all checks and controls across all manufacturing processes adhere to the rules defined by our Quality, Hygiene and Food Safety Systems.
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Quality and Innovation
- Carry out analysis of the company’s needs ensuring all relevant parties, are taken into consideration, thus making sure that the company’s objectives are always a guarantee of its sustainability;
- Improve and consolidate the communication/cooperation with the customers in order to better understand their needs and create partnership through an efficient pre-post sale assistance, aimed to reach a mutual benefit;
- Invest in resources for the study of raw materials study, researching new formulas, together with the aid of new ingredients, technologies and production processes;
- Guarantee to our customers products that meet the food requirements of interest (Halal – Kosher) or that contain sustainable raw materials (RSPO MB –SG);
- Involve and sensitize our suppliers as an integral part of the company in reaching fixed quality standards, as a way of guaranteeing the end customer, as well as in researching/studying new raw materials;
- Ensure continuous commitment to staff training and raising awareness regarding quality aspects, the efficiency of their work and of the organization;
- Publish and continuously improve the company’s commitment to the excellence in its activities, using the most advanced management systems as a growth tool.
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