Environmental, Social and Governance
We are committed to driving an ESG program that includes our entire stakeholders:
Employees, Customers, Suppliers and Shareholders.
Echosens bases its ESG program on four main pillars
Environment
Social & Societal
Ethics & Purchasing
Cybersecurity
For over 20 years, we have been an innovative and pioneer company contributing to the fight against liver disease. Our impact goes beyond the improvement of patient care at a technological and clinical level.
We cultivate our responsibility approach, in order to preserve natural resources, humans, ethic and security. This approach is evident in our behavior and our activities.
We move forward with conviction, forming a committed and involved team.
Our initiatives and general commitments
A human
and dynamic company, promoting diversity and inclusion
50%
of our top suppliers will be certified by an organization by the end of 2022.
46%
reduction in direct greenhouse gas emissions by 2029
Environment
In accordance with its values, Echosens is committed to the SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative) to limit its environmental footprint and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Our objective is to respect the Paris Agreement, signed in 2015, to promote a low-carbon economy and drive ambitious climate action.
We are committed to reducing our direct greenhouse gas emissions by 46% by 2029 compared with 2019, the reference year for Echosens. To achieve this, over the past four years we have been assessing our carbon footprint at a global level.
Social & Societal
The Echosens Human Resources department is committed to ensuring the workplace well-being of its employees. Its ambition is for them to work under the best possible conditions.
Attentive to its employees
Measures to ensure everyone’s well-being
“A talent community”
Ethics & Purchasing
We believe that environmental, social and governmental risks must be incorporated into the company’s decision-making process in order to improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase employees’ stability and preserve the company’s capacity to operate over the long term. The main areas of reflection concern the objective of establishing long-term trust with operational teams, based on transparency, independence and business ethics, by respecting the law and the company’s values.
A Code of Ethics and Business Conduct
An ESG Committee
A responsible purchasing policy
Cybersecurity
The Information Systems Department serves all of the Group’s business lines, providing both project management and technical expertise. Echosens sells medical devices that incorporate a high level of IT expertise and development in order to improve patient care.
Our ambition is to ensure that healthcare professionals have the best tools to achieve this, while being fully aware of the cybersecurity risks.
We must guarantee flawless reliability.
This initiative is a pledge of our daily responsibility to our ecosystem:
Employees, Customers, Suppliers and Shareholders.
ESG initiatives are becoming one of the main focuses of organizations, investors, regulators and stakeholders.
According to the certification body EcoVadis : these criteria constitute the pillars of responsible management, alongside the monitoring of economic and financial indicators.
