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Social Responsibility Policy
Social Responsibility Policy

This policy emphasizes the importance and priority of the principles of corporate social responsibility of PLASTEN OTOMOTİV for the management, personnel and all shareholders.

In this context, we expect form all personnel to manage the economic, social and environmental impacts of their operations within the sense of obligation and to keep improving the society on the agenda primarily as one of the eigenvalues of PLASTEN OTOMOTİV such as modesty, respect to human and respect to society. We show attention to take a leading role in the activities for protecting the democracy, human rights and environment. We aim at conducting our business together with our personnel, customers and suppliers according to the necessities of time in honesty and trust. Our Instructions for Rules of Business Ethics, which we prepared within the frame of the Principles of Corporate Social Responsibility, form a guideline for us in the way we operate as PLASTEN OTOMOTİV.

The main principles we base on in our social responsibility implementations are as follows:

PLASTEN OTOMOTİV Principles of Social Responsibility

1. Human Rights

We respect to Human Rights. We are stand against the forced labor and human trafficking. We treat everybody equally and fairly. We act with respect to cultures of Turkey and in conformity with all legal regulations.

We never accept discrimination between our personnel due to language, race, color, gender, political opinion, belief, religion, doctrine, age, physical disability, etc.

We, as PLASTEN OTOMOTİV, believe that all of our personnel has the right to work in an environment compatible with human dignity, healthy and safe. Our personnel are our prize possession and our primary business target is to provide and protect safety for our personnel.

We believe that our human resources is the most important element for sustainable growth. We provide our personnel to utilize their personal rights in a complete and correct way.

We treat our personnel honestly and fairly and undertake a non-discriminatory, safe and healthy work environment.

2. Working Conditions

2.a. Prevention of Child Employment
Children shall not be employed in any of stages of the production. The companies have to obey the age limitation stipulated in ILO applications for the subject of child employment.

Our company may employ youth persons provided that the requirements given in the Labor Law No. 4857 are fulfilled.

The safety, health, physical, mental, ethical and social development, personal disposition and competences of youth worker is considered during the recruitment and performance of the works. The youth workers may be employed in the positions not preventing his/her success in the school- if he/she is still a student- or his/her participation in the preparations for the selection of occupation or the vocational trainings which the competence is accepted by the competent authorities. The working hours and break hours: the youth workers at the age over 15, completed the primary education and not attending to the school may be employed up to eight hours a day and up to forty hours a week.

2.b. Human Rights and Employee Rights
The wages and social services, minimum wage, overtime work shall be specified in accordance with the main principles of the laws for social services. The actual working hours is 9 hours.

The overtime work shall be conducted only upon consent of the employee and at least 1 day holiday shall be provided for the employee after working 6 successive business days.

The working hours shall not exceed 9 hours a day and 11 hours a day including the overtime work.

2.c. Right to work freely
Forced labor and involuntary servitude are prohibited. The employee shall have the right to terminate the Employment Contract within an appropriate period of time.

2.d. Occupational Health and Safety
Our company ensures and protects the safety of employee in the workplace minimum at the level specified by the laws and endeavors to improve the workplace continuously.

The personal protective equipment are handed over to the employee depending on the working conditions.

Occupational Health and Safety Trainings are provided during the orientation period and the personnel are subjected to the exam after receiving the aforementioned trainings.

No personnel are allowed to work alone on the machines before having the sufficient competence.

The products are stacked at the warehouses according to the rules of stacking.

Personnel work in accordance with the rules of lifting the heavy objects.

The machines receive periodical maintenance.

The fire extinguishers and equipment are checked periodically.

The electrical installations, lifting equipment, transportation devices have periodical maintenance and are checked periodically.

The recruited personnel is sent for health check, examined by the workplace doctor and starts to work if it is approved by the doctor.

The health checks of the personnel are renewed at least 1 in 3 years.

The visitors are equipped with the handbook showing the HSE rules and PPE and then accepted in the company.

The work accidents are notified to Ministry of Labor as required by the laws.

The near miss events inside the company are recorded when necessary and actions are taken to prevent work accidents.

The MSDS documents of the chemicals, that are used in the company, are hang on the wall in the place of use and the personnel are equipped with information about the chemicals.

Emergency squads are organized in the company and they receive the related trainings (Fire, Evacuation Team, etc.).

The workers’ representatives are selected in the company by unanimous vote. They are the spokesman of all workers.

The maintenance and repair by unauthorized persons is not allowed.

The outsourced maintenance or repair companies are not allowed to work in the company without all official documents, health certificates, PPE, etc.

The front of fire extinguishers and exits are always preserved open, clear and serviceable.

The rules of the company are informed to the workers. The “Working Principles Handbook”, that is included in PRS.09.01-APPENDIX1 PLASTEN Disciplinary Procedure”, is delivered to the workers against a signed report and he/she is notified to obey the rules given in the handbook.

2.f.Training and Career Development

PLASTEN OTOMOTİV management, who places great importance on the personnel, forms the personal and occupational trainings, needed for improving the competencies requested by the personnel and required by the position, in line with a yearly plan.

The assessments of the participants at the end of the yearly internal and external trainings are considered. The continuous development is targeted while organizing the trainings.

The compulsory occupational trainings are determined through the analyses of training needs according to the working standards, and organized by the accredited institutions.


2.g. Right to Unionization and Right of Representation

PLASTEN OTOMOTİV respects to the right of workers become a member of a union and bargaining.

The workers have the right to league together, become a member of a union, select their representatives and attend to workers councils freely in accordance with the local laws.

The workers may communicate with each other about the Management and working conditions without being afraid of abuses, intimidation or retaliation.

3. Business Ethics

3.a. Anti-corruption
at all business operations and relations the highest level of honesty is expected. All kinds of corruption, bribery, blackmailing and abuse are strictly forbidden.

Under no circumstances PLASTEN OTOMOTİV shows tolerance for the exchange of money and presents given to affect the decision or attitude of a person, organization, politician, public official or authority for taking commercial or personal advantages.

The bribery is not allowed even in the countries tolerating bribery.

3.b. Prohibition of Abuse and Discrimination
It is forbidden to discriminate between the workers in any way. It includes disadvantaging persons due to their gender, race, original social group, color, disability, membership of a union, political opinion, origin, religion, age and pregnancy.

4. Environment

We manage the environmental impact of our operations with the sense of responsibility. Our company is liable to determine and implement all kinds of improvement and development studies to minimize the environmental impacts of its area of activity as far as possible.

Our company holds “ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Certificate”.

PLASTEN OTOMOTİV aims at providing the technical, financial and human resources, required to achieve the environment-related principles and targets, at all stages of raw material selection, production and services and developing continuously through an effective environmental management system.

We expect our company to help the development and spreading of the best environmental solutions and environment-friendly technologies and to support all kinds of attempts for enhancing the environmental consciousness beyond the legal obligations.

Responsibility and Implementation

Throughout our community, all of our managers and personnel are responsible for corporate social responsibility implementations.

The personnel of PLASTEN OTOMOTİV or business partners are obligated to notify the behaviors, they are aware of or they suspect, violating the provisions of this regulation to the official reporting channels. PLASTEN OTOMOTİV forbids retaliation against the person reporting the violation.