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CSR information
2.
NOTE ON METHODOLOGY
2.1
The content of the CSR chapters of this document reflects
broad consultation with internal and external stakeholders.
In-house, the Sectors, Activities, General Delegations and a
responsible purchasing, financial communications, responsible
number of corporate departments (human resources,
order to enhance the report with examples.
development, EHS, etc.) have been asked to contribute, in
Externally, stakeholders are regularly consulted on general
policy or various specific aspects of Saint-Gobain’s social
Group’s CSR reporting and communications.
responsibility. These consultations assist in developing the
Reference bases
2.1.1
2012 Grenelle II law.
Economic Regulations (NRE) Act of 2001, as well as with the
The reference bases used for social reporting, EHS reporting
with the United Nations’ Global Compact and the French New
and for defining indicators have been prepared in accordance
In order to have a global reference framework, since 2011
indicators. This report was prepared using version G4.
these reference bases follow GRI (Global Reporting Initiative)
Human Resources Department in order to improve doctrine
exchanges information with leading contributors of the
and reporting processes.
responsible for social reporting, regularly collaborates and
The Saint-Gobain Group’s Social Affairs Department, which is
standards, and enhance feedback from the sites. These
the new EHS indicators, to monitor changes in international
For EHS reporting, working groups suggest developments in
committee level twice a year.
proposals are then discussed and validated at management
The data published on Saint-Gobain’s CSR, following the GRI
systems:
methodology, comes from three different Group reporting
software for employee reporting and the annual social
the social reporting system, supported by the Enablon
software;
report, which has a partial interface with the Smart’R
management and reporting system, PeopleGroup, for
managerial staff;
known as Gaïa.
the EHS (Environment, Health, Safety) reporting system
Social reporting
2.1.2
a) Basis
Scope of reporting
Social reporting had a total of 1124 reporting entities and
646 consolidated companies at end 2016.
The system used to count the number of employees (SIS),
region, socio-professional category and contract type.
distribution of employees by gender, Sector, geographic
which is updated monthly, includes the fully consolidated
consolidated total number of employees, and the
Group companies. It forms the basis for calculation of the
the Group’s social performance, is based on a limited
The annual social report, created in 2002 to account for
number of employees. All other social indicators are
scope of reporting, representing 98,5% of the consolidated
calculated on this basis.
with their financial integration, and companies sold during the
Newly integrated companies are accounted for in accordance
past year are not included.
b) Reporting tool
three tools: Enablon, PeopleGroup and Smart’R. The data was
The quantitative social data in this report was collected using
consolidated for the Saint-Gobain Group as a whole.
and the annual social reporting campaign. Since
It supports the system for counting the number of employees
January 2016, part of the Enablon employee data (covering
coming from the Smart’R software, which incorporates
83% of the workforce at end December 2016) has been
Smart’R will become the only reporting tool in 2017.
information from the payroll systems. The intention is that
Enablon HR is the Saint-Gobain Group’s social reporting tool.
for managers. It is structured on the basis of the individual
PeopleGroup is the Saint-Gobain Group’s management tool
career management, annual interviewsand manager
personnel file of each Group manager. The processes for
compensation are also part of this system.
the start of each month, based on changes in the scope of
The Group’s organizational data is updated in PeopleGroup at
reporting applied to the social report.
Individual management employee files are updated in two
ways:
either manually by the company HR teams;
(covering over 90% of Group employees in 2016).
or by automated reporting from the local HR systems