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As the 2021-22 CSR Report goes to print, Stéphanie Delamarre, CSR and Sustainable Development Director, reflects on Samsic Planet 2030, a flagship Samsic Group project.
Can you tell us about the first significant results of Samsic Planet 2030?
The Samsic Planet 2030 launch comes at a time when the climate emergency and the need to preserve our environment, combined with the health crisis, has revealed the inseparable nature of the social and environmental aspects of our commitments. At Samsic we are already ahead of the game in terms of social initiatives, but we wanted to step up our environmental pledge by focusing on two key objectives:
- create service solutions which are increasingly more eco-responsible for our customers
- offer eco-citizen work environments to our employees, and our customers’ employees, by making them safer, healthier, more welcoming, and more stimulating
The crisis, for example, meant that we were able to develop more daytime work and highlight our professions which have been invisible for a long time because they are almost always carried out at night. We have been particularly dedicated to this initiative for several years now as it allows employees to have a better work-life balance. This means their health is protected, they can reduce their environmental footprint by taking public transport, and be safer rather than being alone at night in empty offices and buildings. This important change which helps to further cleaning service companies, our business activities, and those who carry them out, has significantly changed how customers view cleaning agents: the latter finally feel valued and seen.
How is the programme being rolled out?
Our Samsic Planet 2030 programme is the operational translation of our CSR commitments and objectives. A co-constructive approach is applied to the rollout because, whilst ESG performance is a global quest, local strengths and challenges may differ from one region or subsidiary to another.
We also remain faithful to two dimensions that we consider essential:
- a strong R&D and innovation culture which is widely developed within our services and permanently activated by our teams in all our regions for better integration of societal issues
- employer brand promotion to attract new talents, gain employee loyalty and help them grow within Samsic
Samsic Planet 2030 is, therefore, the lifeblood of our value chain and unites us around common objectives for even better ESG performance.
The Samsic Planet 2030 rollout is carried out at all Group levels and regions in which the Group is present, even in its agencies.
Our teams feel, therefore, part of a responsible company project which is concrete, useful to all and planet positive.
Can you tell us more about the significant results that are already being seen?
2021 was the year when a host of ESG commitments and performances were launched.
The nationwide CSR Challenge, organised with all our subsidiaries, resulted in the introduction of more than 1250 CSR initiatives: numerous daring projects were awarded, such as job support for Ukrainian women in Poland and a robot patrol in risk areas to provide better protection for our security agents.
Over 8300 employees also received environmental awareness training about our daily actions through our Eco-Gesture Charter and monthly best practices during our Eco-talks and Eco-challenges.
We’re also delighted to announce the Caring for Forests launch. The forest regeneration programme, in collaboration with Reforest’Action, will plant 100,000 trees by now and 2025 in Europe and North Africa. Even if our actions are just a “drop in the ocean”, as Thierry Geffroy, Samsic Group CEO, often tells us, our Caring for Forests programme aims to remind our stakeholders of the urgency and our collective responsibility to preserve our planet.
