At Kersia, we manufacture and distribute a range of solutions for preventing contamination of animals, food and humans, with food safety as our core competence.
Aware that our products have an impact on the planet and living beings, since 2016 we have been committed to a sustainable development approach, which we have called “ACT for a positive impact”.
This Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program reflects the Group’s four values: transparency, sharing, competence and anticipation. It enables our employees to get involved in offering our customers ever more respectful, high-quality solutions. All our stakeholders, whether customers, suppliers, authorities, shareholders or local authorities, are involved so that, together, we can contribute to a better world. (double interaction)
Our organization
The whole company mobilized
At Kersia, we believe that improving the Group’s impact is not just a matter for a few, but must be integrated into the day-to-day work of everyone in every department. Our ACT for a positive impact program is based on a solid organization, mobilizing all the company’s forces around an operational committee and local CSR delegates.
The CSR Operational Committee brings together all the corporate functions whose commitment is a prerequisite for improving our impact: Communication, Digital, Finance and Legal, Governance and Regulations, Marketing and Innovation, Supplier and Customer Relations, Human Resources, Purchasing and Industrial Performance.
CSR referents coordinators are responsible for deploying the approach in all the Group’s geographical zones. They act as intermediaries between the CSR department and the subsidiaries, to ensure progress in priority areas. They also retain the freedom to initiate local projects, to ensure a strong local impact. Regular communication between these players ensures that information is shared and regular encouragement given, which is then passed on to employees.
A collaborative platform enables 160 contributors across the Group to provide continuous information on key non-financial indicators (safety, environment, health and well-being, water, plastics, travel, freight, etc.).
Our actions
“Committed & Different ”, Kersia’s Actors of Change program
We want to be a sustainable company, capable of adapting to a changing world, open-minded enough to find new solutions to tomorrow’s challenges. We want to inspire every employee, encouraging them to look outside the usual system, developing their skills so that everyone dares to act differently. This vision has led us to forge closer ties with the Ashoka network, a group of social entrepreneurs, and then to commit in 2019 with this NGO to an ambitious program to transform the Group, which we have called “Committed & Different”.
The aim of the program is, on the one hand, to support a network of social entrepreneurs, and on the other, to encourage this type of approach within the Group itself. In order to involve as many employees as possible, we propose three levels of involvement:
- Join the program for an 8-month training course to become an ambassador and develop your soft skills (entrepreneurial spirit, adaptability, emotional intelligence, creativity, leadership…). Ultimately, we hope that 10-15% of our employees will become ambassadors. With support at the highest level of the company, from their managers, and through cultural encounters, ambassadors are encouraged in their individual initiatives. This joint project contributes to individual changes in mindset, constituting the first step towards collective change.
- Participate freely in regular webinars on various themes (e.g. food insecurity), usually hosted by social enterprises in the Ashoka network.
- Participate in inter-company meetings to share similar initiatives.
Recognition
Proud of our progress towards an increasingly sustainable group, we are committed to recognizing the commitment of our employees, while enabling continuous improvement in our social and environmental performance. This is why we have chosen to be assessed by AFNOR with the Engagés RSE label (based on the ISO 26000 standard), for which we obtained level 3 out of 4, and by Ecovadis, which awarded us the silver medal.
In order to guarantee and improve customer satisfaction, reduce our environmental impact, adapt to climate change, and provide ever safer and healthier working conditions for our employees, we are aiming for triple ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certification for all our facilities worldwide. In France, our Hypred, Hypred Distribution and LCB Food Safety sites and activities have already been triple-certified for several years.
In 2024, the Group officially validated its decarbonization trajectory with the Science-Based Target initiative (SBTi). As a result, Kersia is committed to reducing absolute GHG emissions from Scopes 1 and 2 by 42% by 2030, compared with the 2023 baseline year. Kersia is also committed to reducing scope 3 GHG emissions from purchased goods and services, upstream transport and distribution, waste generated by operations, business travel and end-of-life treatment of products sold by 51.6% per million euros of added value, within the same timeframe.
CSR issues
An action plan in line with the United Nations 2030 objectives
In September 2015, a historic United Nations summit saw the adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to 2030, to end all forms of poverty, combat inequality and tackle climate change. 9 of these goals are key issues for Kersia today, given our mission.
2.4 By 2030, ensure the sustainability of food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, contribute to the preservation of ecosystems, strengthen adaptive capacities to climate change, extreme weather events, drought, floods and other disasters, and progressively improve land and soil quality.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
HUMAN CAPITAL
ENVIRONMENT
POSITIVE IMPACT: Promoting products with a positive impact that goes beyond regulatory compliance
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION: Deploying food safety projects from farm to fork using biotechnology
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
3.D Strengthen the capacity of all countries, particularly developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
HUMAN CAPITAL
IDAY: regularly collect
requests from our employees to deploy new projects based on their proposals
SAFETY: prevent accidents and implement safety certification for all our facilities
WELL-BEING: implement a global action plan to prevent psychosocial risks
ENVIRONMENT
BALANCE BETWEEN PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE: implementing tools to measure respect for balance
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE TRAINING: deploying comprehensive training programs for our customers
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
GREEN CHEMICALS: Deploying disruptive innovation through projects to limit risks and residues
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
4.4 By 2030, significantly increase the number of young people and adults with the skills, including technical and vocational skills, needed for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship
4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender inequalities in education and ensure equal access for vulnerable people, including people with disabilities, indigenous people and children in vulnerable situations, to all levels of education and vocational training
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
HUMAN CAPITAL
YOUNG AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE: put in place specific procedures and programs to guarantee their full protection
COMPREHENSIVE ACTION PLAN FOR TRAINING: implement and measure the performance of all training programs
ENVIRONMENT
BIODIVERSITY: global awareness-raising session for all employees
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
LOCAL ENGAGEMENT improving employment and education
WATER: deploying existing water treatment models in an African school
6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating waste dumping and minimizing emissions of chemicals and hazardous materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and significantly increasing the safe recycling and reuse of water worldwide.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
HUMAN CAPITAL
ENVIRONMENT
WATER: communicate on existing models within the Group for recycling water from our facilities, and roll out these models.
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
Reducing customers’ water footprint
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
WATER: deploying existing water treatment models
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
9.4 By 2030, modernize infrastructure and adapt industries to make them sustainable, through more rational use of resources and increased use of clean, environmentally-friendly technologies and industrial processes, with each country acting within its means.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
IS CHARTER: sharing best practices and protecting personal data
HUMAN CAPITAL
ENVIRONMENT
Reducing theENERGY footprint of our supply chain through optimization programs
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
TRIPLE CERTIFICATION for all our facilities before 2024 (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OSHAS 18001 / ISO 45001)
CRISIS MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE: define a clear procedure for any type of crisis
CRM rollout: trace customer support in a single tool
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
Moving from a linear to a circular economy for all new investments
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
12.4 By 2020, establish environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with internationally agreed guidelines, and significantly reduce their release into the air, water and soil, in order to minimize their negative effects on health and the environment.
12.5 By 2030, significantly reduce waste production through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.
12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational ones, to adopt sustainable practices and to include sustainability information in their reporting.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
EXTRA-FINANCIAL INFORMATION: setting up a platform to monitor extra-financial performance
HUMAN CAPITAL
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION: implement a Group procedure to guarantee the protection of personal data
ENVIRONMENT
PLASTIC: communicate on existing models within the Group for collecting and recycling packaging, and roll out models
WASTE MANAGEMENT: switch from a linear economy to a CIRCULAR ECONOMY for all new projects, and assess performance
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION: implement worldwide satisfaction measurement campaigns
SUPPLIER CHARTER: guarantee our customers that we control our entire supply chain
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
CODE OF ETHICS: responsible behavior
RISK MAPPING: list of potential risks for the Group and implementation of action plans to limit them
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
LOCAL COMMUNITY: deploy action plans around all our facilities (co-working, co-driving, etc.)
8.5 By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and ensure decent work and equal pay for work of equal value for all women and men, including young people and people with disabilities.
8.8 Uphold workers’ rights, promote safe workplaces and ensure the protection of all workers, including migrants, especially women, and those in precarious employment.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
CODE OF ETHICS: implementing anti-corruption practices
HUMAN CAPITAL
HR POLICY: job creation, social and working conditions, professional equity, integration of disabled people and shared values
SOCIAL DIALOGUE: set up a global and local structure to foster social dialogue
ENVIRONMENT
HSE POLICY: sharing best practices and assessing performance
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
CODE OF ETHICS: human rights, anti-discriminatory practices
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
CODE OF ETHICS: responsible purchasing favoring local suppliers
13.1 Build resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
HUMAN CAPITAL
ENVIRONMENT
Climate risk mapping: list all applicable risks and implement continuity plans
Cars: deploy hybrid and electric cars
Carbon footprint: reduce along
supply chain via an optimization program
Renewable energies: deploy the percentage of renewable energy used in our facilities
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
17.16 Strengthen the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, with multi-stakeholder partnerships to mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources to help all countries, especially developing countries, achieve sustainable development goals.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
REGULATORY SURVEY: deploying a common global tool to study and better anticipate new regulations
HUMAN CAPITAL
ASHOKA program: fostering the development of soft skills among our employees
ENVIRONMENT
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
ECOVADIS COMMITMENT: extend assessment to KERSIA GROUP
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: contribute to professional associations in all strategic countries
ASHOKA program: help people use their entrepreneurial skills to solve a social problem linked to large-scale food security
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
DISABLED PEOPLE: set up partnerships with all technical centers employing disabled people around our facilities
LOCAL PROJECTS: participate in all relevant local projects
- HUNGER ``ZERO
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2.4 By 2030, ensure the sustainability of food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, contribute to the preservation of ecosystems, strengthen adaptive capacities to climate change, extreme weather events, drought, floods and other disasters, and progressively improve land and soil quality.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
HUMAN CAPITAL
ENVIRONMENT
POSITIVE IMPACT: Promoting products with a positive impact that goes beyond regulatory compliance
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION: Deploying food safety projects from farm to fork using biotechnology
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
- 3. GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
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3.D Strengthen the capacity of all countries, particularly developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
HUMAN CAPITAL
IDAY: regularly collect
requests from our employees to deploy new projects based on their proposalsSAFETY: prevent accidents and implement safety certification for all our facilities
WELL-BEING: implement a global action plan to prevent psychosocial risks
ENVIRONMENT
BALANCE BETWEEN PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE: implementing tools to measure respect for balance
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE TRAINING: deploying comprehensive training programs for our customers
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
GREEN CHEMICALS: Deploying disruptive innovation through projects to limit risks and residues
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
- 4. QUALITY EDUCATION
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4.4 By 2030, significantly increase the number of young people and adults with the skills, including technical and vocational skills, needed for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship
4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender inequalities in education and ensure equal access for vulnerable people, including people with disabilities, indigenous people and children in vulnerable situations, to all levels of education and vocational training
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
HUMAN CAPITAL
YOUNG AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE: put in place specific procedures and programs to guarantee their full protection
COMPREHENSIVE ACTION PLAN FOR TRAINING: implement and measure the performance of all training programs
ENVIRONMENT
BIODIVERSITY: global awareness-raising session for all employees
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
LOCAL ENGAGEMENT improving employment and education
WATER: deploying existing water treatment models in an African school
- 6. CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
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6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating waste dumping and minimizing emissions of chemicals and hazardous materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and significantly increasing the safe recycling and reuse of water worldwide.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
HUMAN CAPITAL
ENVIRONMENT
WATER: communicate on existing models within the Group for recycling water from our facilities, and roll out these models.
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
Reducing customers’ water footprint
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
WATER: deploying existing water treatment models
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
- 9. INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
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9.4 By 2030, modernize infrastructure and adapt industries to make them sustainable, through more rational use of resources and increased use of clean, environmentally-friendly technologies and industrial processes, with each country acting within its means.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
IS CHARTER: sharing best practices and protecting personal data
HUMAN CAPITAL
ENVIRONMENT
Reducing theENERGY footprint of our supply chain through optimization programs
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
TRIPLE CERTIFICATION for all our facilities before 2024 (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OSHAS 18001 / ISO 45001)
CRISIS MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE: define a clear procedure for any type of crisis
CRM rollout: trace customer support in a single tool
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
Moving from a linear to a circular economy for all new investments
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
- 12. RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
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12.4 By 2020, establish environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with internationally agreed guidelines, and significantly reduce their release into the air, water and soil, in order to minimize their negative effects on health and the environment.
12.5 By 2030, significantly reduce waste production through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.
12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational ones, to adopt sustainable practices and to include sustainability information in their reporting.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
EXTRA-FINANCIAL INFORMATION: setting up a platform to monitor extra-financial performance
HUMAN CAPITAL
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION: implement a Group procedure to guarantee the protection of personal data
ENVIRONMENT
PLASTIC: communicate on existing models within the Group for collecting and recycling packaging, and roll out models
WASTE MANAGEMENT: switch from a linear economy to a CIRCULAR ECONOMY for all new projects, and assess performance
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION: implement worldwide satisfaction measurement campaigns
SUPPLIER CHARTER: guarantee our customers that we control our entire supply chain
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
CODE OF ETHICS: responsible behavior
RISK MAPPING: list of potential risks for the Group and implementation of action plans to limit them
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
LOCAL COMMUNITY: deploy action plans around all our facilities (co-working, co-driving, etc.)
- 8. DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
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8.5 By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and ensure decent work and equal pay for work of equal value for all women and men, including young people and people with disabilities.
8.8 Uphold workers’ rights, promote safe workplaces and ensure the protection of all workers, including migrants, especially women, and those in precarious employment.ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
CODE OF ETHICS: implementing anti-corruption practices
HUMAN CAPITAL
HR POLICY: job creation, social and working conditions, professional equity, integration of disabled people and shared values
SOCIAL DIALOGUE: set up a global and local structure to foster social dialogue
ENVIRONMENT
HSE POLICY: sharing best practices and assessing performance
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
CODE OF ETHICS: human rights, anti-discriminatory practices
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
CODE OF ETHICS: responsible purchasing favoring local suppliers
- 13. MEASURES TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE
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13.1 Build resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
HUMAN CAPITAL
ENVIRONMENT
Climate risk mapping: list all applicable risks and implement continuity plans
Cars: deploy hybrid and electric cars
Carbon footprint: reduce along
supply chain via an optimization programRenewable energies: deploy the percentage of renewable energy used in our facilities
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
- 17. PARTNERSHIPS TO ACHIEVE OBJECTIVES
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17.16 Strengthen the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, with multi-stakeholder partnerships to mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources to help all countries, especially developing countries, achieve sustainable development goals.
ACTING FOR A POSITIVE IMPACT
COMPLIANCE
REGULATORY SURVEY: deploying a common global tool to study and better anticipate new regulations
HUMAN CAPITAL
ASHOKA program: fostering the development of soft skills among our employees
ENVIRONMENT
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
ECOVADIS COMMITMENT: extend assessment to KERSIA GROUP
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: contribute to professional associations in all strategic countries
ASHOKA program: help people use their entrepreneurial skills to solve a social problem linked to large-scale food security
TERRITORIAL IMPACT
DISABLED PEOPLE: set up partnerships with all technical centers employing disabled people around our facilities
LOCAL PROJECTS: participate in all relevant local projects