Throughout over 40 years of activity in the market, we seek to provide a good working environment to all outsourced employees and establish a relationship based on ethics, transparency and responsibility with our suppliers. All companies undergo an integration process carried out by professionals from SESMT Even (Specialized Service in Safety Engineering and Occupational Medicine), and all contracts include clauses regarding respect for human rights.
We carry out monthly assessments of suppliers to ensure that they offer decent and safe working conditions, comply with our rules and routines, and verify that they are in line with our values. Before any hiring, we analyze the history of companies through the Instant Ofac and Transparência Brasil platforms, which avoids any association with suppliers involved in corruption schemes or any kind of sanction, diversion or fraud.
Since 2015, we have used the electronic platform GDFOR (Management of Supplier Documents), a mechanism that has already integrated approximately 100,000 employees into our network. Our employees can access the tool from any point with internet access, allowing strict control of outsourced professionals, besides offering training and access to construction sites.
For employees, the system guarantees working protected by legal requirements; for the supplier, it means greater agility and cost reduction, as it allows safe access to different construction sites.
We have a centralized supply area, which ensures that all the Company’s criteria are respected and followed when contracting and/or purchasing materials and services. Every new Even supplier undergoes a comprehensive and continuous evaluation process, in which environmental and social criteria are analyzed, including everything from quality requirements for the material used and the work carried out to the use of good sustainable practices and a good relationship with all own and third-party employees.
They underwent this evaluation process between 2019 and 2021, and 110 new service providers were hired. To reduce the environmental impact of our work, we seek to work with suppliers close to our construction sites. Currently, of the ten main families of materials purchased, 92% come from producers and processors located within 300km.
Consistent with our strategic guidelines focused on sustainability, we also carry out homologation visits to the final destinations of waste and soil. In 2021, we visited four final destinations, of which three were approved and are used by Even, and one was disapproved due to lack of documentation.
We have a specific checklist for this process, which includes analysis of conditions linked to the ordinance, documentation control, work safety, waste management (storage and final destination), noise and effluent control and control against sedimentation and erosion. The process is standardized, and all locations are visited for approval. If it is not approved, we communicate with all those involved and prohibit its use by any of our works.
Final Destination Approval Visits
Visit by Construction Engineers, Supplies and Sustainability Team
Assessment made with a personalized Check List focused on environmental and social issues (besides the legal requirement) considering seven categories and risk and impact matrix:
Decision-making and final approval are carried out according to the final note of the visit, considering Even’s methodology.
