Our actions

Conscious of the potential environmental, economic and social impact of our activities,  The Blue Yellow Company has put in place a number of internal protocols relating to our methods of work and is working with the Institut Pasteur to fund a research project.

• Blue Yellow Charter
  
• Institut Pasteur Project
  

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The term Ecology was first coined in 1866 and means awareness of the house (‘house’ refers to our planet and its biosphere),

Sustainable development must focus on all 3 main areas concerned, i.e.:

• Economic Dimension
  
• Social Dimension
  
• Environmental Dimension
  

Blue Yellow has undertaken to:

• Identify those elements of its activity which have an impact on these 3 areas
• Assess, measure, control and monitor the elements identified
• Define qualitative and/or quantitative improvement objectives
• Draw up a charter of responsibility with regard to daily Actions and its Actions with relevant partners

Economic dimension

• The management of the Agency must be fully transparent to preserve its corporate image.

Respect of the professional ethics of its activity.

Social dimension

The main indicators in terms of the social dimension are:

• Percentage of women in the workforce
• Number of hours per employee devoted to training
• Work accident rate
• Number of days of absence due to illness
• Percentage of fixed-term contracts

The Agency’s social policy:

• Staff development (recruitment, training, diversity, policy in favour of disabled people)
• Remuneration and social protection (social dialogue, social protection)
• Respect of the legal minimum working age
• Respect of regulations relating to the prohibition of forced labour
• Ensuring a correct and fair remuneration of its employees
• Respect of equal opportunities (gender, colour, religion, disabled people, sexuality, union membership, membership of a political party, etc.)

Environmental

It is the aspect of sustainable development which receives most media coverage and which determines a company’s ecological credentials

It encompasses the following areas:

• Transport
• Food
• Communication
• Energy
• Water
• Waste

For each of these areas, it is necessary to assess consumption and to define the action to take to reduce the impact on the environment.

The aim is to reduce the harmful effects on the environment and to integrate an ecological dimension into the Agency

Some examples of action to carry out in each area within the Agency’s spheres of activity

Transport

• Encourage car-sharing (to and from the point of departure and arrival)
• Use the train rather than the plane or car wherever possible (to and from the point of departure and arrival)

Food

• Avoid using plastic disposable tableware in favour of reusable alternatives (meetings, coffee breaks, lunch box, etc.)
• Favour organic and fair trade products (coffee, tea, fruit juice, etc.)
• Use Caterers favouring an organic approach

Communication

• Limit travel in order to reduce the quantity of CO2 emissions in favour of mail, emails, video conferences. (meetings, limited transport,  location scouting, etc.)
• Reduce printing in the office
• Use both sides of the paper
• Use recycled paper and printers with the “imprim’vert” label and which use vegetable-based inks and recycled paper

Energy

• Reduce wastage (computers on standby, lighting, air-conditioning, etc.)
• Reduce consumption and use energy sensibly

Water

• Stop using bottled water
• Limit the consumption of water

Waste and IT

• Organise a system to take recyclable waste to the correct bins
• Use waste recovery companies (in particular office equipment waste: toner, refills, etc.)
• Keep the work place clean and tidy
  Disconnect all equipment when not in use

• Place your PC on standby as often as possible
• Reduce the electrical consumption of your IT equipment

Insitut Pasteur

Blue Yellow is working with the Institut Pasteur to fund a research project in Cambodia into resistance to antimalarial drugs. Malaria kills 870 000 people in the world each year.