Sustainable Development Plans

Corporation

Reputation

• Expanding the company's cooperation with Ukrainian representative offices in Poland, Israel and Georgia thus making Ukrainian culture as well as Obolon Corporation's achievements known outside Ukraine.
• Promoting the projects for the improvement of Obolon's labour practices through a series of measures taken by the Civil Organization 'League of Social Workers' and within the scope of the Human Rights in Business Environment programme of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) in 2015.

Business Standards

• Developing an individual Anticorruption Policy.
• Developing a Consume Responsibly programme within the scope of excursion programmes to the Obolon brewery (lectures and hand-out materials).

Management

• Regular meetings of Directors with the personnel under the Direct Discourse project.

Stakeholders

• Expanding the Open Obolon excursion project. Strengthening the programme.
• Improving the mechanism of submitting claims by stakeholders through the Obolon Hot Line.
• Developing a pilot Supplier Cooperation Policy.

People

Comfortable Working Environment

• Surveying the workplaces; comfort and hygiene of workplaces.
• Installing bicycle parking facilities for better transportation and comfort of the Obolon working environment.

Life and Health

• Providing regular personnel trainings on occupational safety to prevent production injuries.
• Information programmes on preventing tuberculosis, in cooperation with the USAID Project for the employees of the Obolon regional companies.
• Implementing the Health Days project for the Obolon personnel with the involvement of experts from specialized medical establishments and institutions.

Ethics and Equality of Rights

• Approbation of mechanisms for improving the labour practices of the employees who have family obligations, within the scope of the Getting Back to Work project.
• Providing personnel trainings within the scope of the information and educational programme for promoting the ethical policy among the Obolon personnel.
• Information sessions for personnel on human rights with the involvement of third-party human rights organizations.

Personnel Development

• Implementing the personnel training programme 'Achieve while Learning' with the involvement of internal experts from among the company's management.
• Arranging language classes for employees
• Pilot implementation of the Exchange of Experience project among the experts of various Obolon companies.

Society

Regional Development

• Implementing a strategy of agrarian area development: installing additional equipment for storing barley and malt at Obolon Argo.
• Expansion of the excursion programme to Obolon regional companies.
• Arranging communication sessions between the management of Obolon regional companies and representatives of local communities.

Sports

• Regular practices for the trainees of the Zmina sports youth school, conducted by the players of the Obolon Brovar soccer team.

Sponsorship and Charity

• Organizing regular travels of volunteer employees to the paternalized specialized Mostyshche boarding school in the Kyiv region.

Production

Quality Management

• External audit of the Obolon integrated quality system.

Technology

• Implementing the Re Con system for energy recuperation in the process of the gasification of liquefied carbonic acid.
• Installing adiabatic panels for preliminary air cooling in front of the cooling plant in Shop No. 8 of the Obolon brewery.

Environment

No Waste

• Starting the production of plastic bags from recycled PET receptacle at the special Obolon enterprise in Kirovograd region.