RASTGAR will be an ethical, global business corporation. Our vision is to beautify the World through our products, our processes, our people and through our contribution to the environment and our society.
 

Social Responsibility Rastgar Engineering Company (REC) became a volunteer UN Global Compact participant two years ago. Although the company, which is now 42 years old, had always been a moral and ethical company with fair policies, but having found the UN Global Compact guidelines, we have taken conscious steps to abide by these principles. We, at REC, continue to strongly support and are fully committed to all of the Global Compact principles. Our stance on these principles has regularly been communicated to all stake holders in various forms, which include:

• Annual report to share holders, creditors, bankers etc
• Declaration on our website www.rastgar.com
• Annually updated Employees Handbook
• Emails to our suppliers, customers and employees
• Prominent Notices and Posters in our premises
• Occasional written communications to all stake holders

We are strong believers in the internationally accepted human rights and we take special care to ensure that we do not, even in any small way, indulge into the abuse of any human rights. There is absolutely no concept of any child or forced labour in REC. This principle is categorically declared on our website also.

We ensure our workers' association and participation in all job-related deliberations to improve simultaneously upon the working conditions, environment, productivity, profitability and compensations. There are Suggestion Boxes, as well as token rewards for useful suggestions, whether these are utilized or not.

Going beyond legal obligations, we have introduced following worker benefits purely from a humanitarian viewpoint:

1. Monthly Educational Scholarships to workers' children

2. Monthly Financial support / pension to deceased workers' dependants

3. Special financial grants in case daughter of an employee is getting married.

4. Special Paid leave on employee marriage

5. Special Paid leave if an employee meets a tragedy in family.

6. Free daily food for all employees below a certain salary limit.

7. Subsided food for all remaining employees.

8. Payment of any extraordinary Medical Costs of an employee's family

9. Occasional notices are posted in REC inviting applications for any other special grants. Pictures attached show:

• Selection by Hajj Committee of the lucky worker proceeding for Hajj on company expense

• Notice inviting requests for award of children education grant

• Standing Order regarding special grants of paid leave and financial aid for marriage (or a tragedy) in family

Foreign consultants are engaged occasionally to study in depth the current working conditions. They mix up freely with our work force, obtain first hand impressions and responses from them, and recommend measures for improving the work conditions, productivity and benefits through inculcating team spirit. A special cricket day was observed last year in which six teams from within REC participated. This event was happily witnessed by a Swiss expert too. Some pictures of the foreign experts with REC workers and of the cricket event are attached.

Believing firmly in equal opportunities for both the genders, we encourage females to apply for jobs in REC. Certain female employees have recently been inducted into REC Administration, Procurement and Finance departments. We earnestly hope that they will prosper within REC and set example for others.

After being ISO 14001 certified in 2007, we are continually taking measures to ensure a safe and healthy environment not only for our workers, but also for the area in general. Adoption of Japanese 5S principles has brought about a lot of improvement in REC working environment. REC has been divided into 7 Zones for maintaining the standard environments; and certain Auditors carry out regular audit of these zones to ensure that everyone in REC is conscious of and attends to the respective responsibilities Some pictures relating to this activity are attached.

REC considers its workers as its most precious asset. Practical steps have been taken to identify all occupational and safety hazards; and precautionary measures taken for ready response and rescue in case of any untoward incident. REC has recently been certified under OHSAS 18001 too. This is another happy milestone for REC.

Our Chairman is of the staunch belief that business is to be done the right (and not the wrong!) way. Our suppliers and vendors have been notified through our website that REC employees are not permitted to accept gifts from current or potential suppliers. Under the Suppliers' Code, all REC employees, suppliers, and other recipients of the code are committed to the highest standards of integrity, honesty, and fairness in all internal and external relationships. No employee is allowed directly or indirectly to accept or offer to pay bribes or kick-backs. In order to demonstrate strictness in this matter, the employees are under obligation to deposit even token gifts like diaries, pens, calendars and other small items with the REC Administration Department. This small but important direction is a part of the Employees' Hand Book, and all employees are annually reminded through email about this obligation. Copy of the latest reminder is attached.

SAIF RASTGAR
Finance & Human Resource Director
Rastgar Engineering Company Pvt Ltd
Islamabad .

RASTGAR ENGINEERING COMPANY ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, BELIEF AND PLEDGE:

We believe that God is beautiful and that he likes beauty and neatness.

We pledge to keep ourselves and our work places clean and healthy. To improve our environment by Recycling; and minimizing waste, emissions and ensuring their proper disposal and also by planting trees and flowers wherever we can.

We keep our environment in a sacred trust.  We will preserve and beautify this “Amanat” for all our future generations.