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One of the UK’s largest consultancies is to begin CSR reporting this year, but may not initially go public with the results.
Mott MacDonald, which has 7000 consultants working in 100 countries on areas ranging from the environment to information technology, intends to produce CSR reports for three of its 40-odd divisions by the middle of this year.
But Mott MacDonald sustainability consultant Chris Davis, who is co-ordinating the work, says the employee-owned company may keep the results out of the public eye if they are felt to be too rudimentary.
‘The intention is that each of the reports should be for public consumption, but we’re not actually committing ourselves to that because we don’t know whether they will be satisfactory in terms of completeness,’ said Davis. ‘We’ll just have to see what they look like first.’
‘Our experience of what other companies have done shows that the first CSR report is usually pretty average and the second one gets better.
‘The three reports from our units may be incomplete and have holes in them, which will show us what we have to work on in the next year but might not be useful in terms of putting in front of the public.’
Mott MacDonald has been collecting information relevant to CSR reporting – including customer feedback, health and safety, and staff satisfaction – for the past three years, and says it is now ‘ready to benchmark and share the data with the wider world’.
It produced a one-page statement on corporate responsibility in its 2004 annual report and aims to begin producing a full, public, CSR report for the group in 2007.
Mott MacDonald, which has 7000 consultants working in 100 countries on areas ranging from the environment to information technology, intends to produce CSR reports for three of its 40-odd divisions by the middle of this year.
But Mott MacDonald sustainability consultant Chris Davis, who is co-ordinating the work, says the employee-owned company may keep the results out of the public eye if they are felt to be too rudimentary.
‘The intention is that each of the reports should be for public consumption, but we’re not actually committing ourselves to that because we don’t know whether they will be satisfactory in terms of completeness,’ said Davis. ‘We’ll just have to see what they look like first.’
‘Our experience of what other companies have done shows that the first CSR report is usually pretty average and the second one gets better.
‘The three reports from our units may be incomplete and have holes in them, which will show us what we have to work on in the next year but might not be useful in terms of putting in front of the public.’
Mott MacDonald has been collecting information relevant to CSR reporting – including customer feedback, health and safety, and staff satisfaction – for the past three years, and says it is now ‘ready to benchmark and share the data with the wider world’.
It produced a one-page statement on corporate responsibility in its 2004 annual report and aims to begin producing a full, public, CSR report for the group in 2007.
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