What is Integrity?
A company with integrity must act within the legality, guiding its activities by ethical values and principles, always seeking to defend honesty and prevent the occurrence of irregularities in its business. Having integrity is a commitment to our employees, our customers, suppliers and society.
Integrity: An expected value!
Continental and the James Fisher Group’s core values reflect the way we conduct our business, including relationships with customers, suppliers and society.
Continental’s leadership seeks for a culture of integrity, honesty, transparency and responsibility. These values are the foundation for our relationships and for all Continental policies and procedures.
Continental is committed to ensuring the highest standards of compliance in its activities and that ethics-related policies and procedures are properly implemented by our employees.
The appropriate conduct and honesty of employees, managers and directors are essential to ensure the integrity of the company. But alone they are not enough. Having integrity is creating an environment where right behavior is encouraged and valued. Inappropriate behavior is reprimanded and considered as a lesson learned for the development of Continental’s activities.
We have zero tolerance for any form of bribery or corruption and we are committed to complying with Brazilian anti-corruption law and other applicable laws in conducting our business.
Integrity Program
Continental has sought to implement and improve a set of integrity and compliance measures (values, rules and procedures), with the objective of preventing, detecting and interrupting the occurrence of deviations in our activities, such as:
1. Implementation of Policies and Procedures:
- a) Code of Conduct for Employees
- b) Code of Conduct for Suppliers
- c) Code of Anti-Corruption Conduct
- d) Group Whistleblowing Policy
2. Implementation of James Fisher’s independent Compliance Officer role in Brazil
3. Risk Assessments related to our Business Processes, aiming to ensure the integrity and safety of our employees, suppliers and customers
4. Implementation of Internal Controls
5. External Audit of our Financial Statements
Whistleblowing Channel
The integrity program is capable of preventing irregularities, but it is impossible to completely prevent deviations and undesired situations from occurring within the scope of our activities.
Having integrity also means reporting potential violations and deviations that eventually occur in the workplace. For this, in case of doubt, or if you feel obliged to report a misconduct, the James Fisher Group in Brazil provides an independent reporting line through our Compliance Officer.
It is important to emphasize that this channel is managed exclusively by the Compliance Officer, with supervision of the governance functions established by the James Fisher Group in the United Kingdom, so that the information reported is treated in a confidential, independent and impartial manner. Therefore, please note the importance of using this channel responsibly.
We count on your support to conduct our business correctly and responsibly.
