1. Description of the company

 

Mjørud is a family-owned company with a history dating back to 1905. Mjørud consists of a parent company and 3 subsidiaries.

 

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The company is located in Rakkestad in Østfold. The focus of the company is described as:

Development, design, fabrication, and installation of welded and machined products for offshore, land-based, and defense industries. Design, production, and repair of steam boilers and heat exchangers including external piping.

Mjørud aims to be a company with which both customers and suppliers want to have a long-term relationship. This is achieved by acting ethically and environmentally responsibly. Long-term relationships provide good predictability, ensuring good profitability for all parties.

Furthermore, the company wants committed employees who see Mjørud as a long-term workplace. This is achieved by providing employees with orderly employment conditions and opportunities for responsibility and personal and professional development.

To fully understand its context, Mjørud has prepared a risk and opportunity matrix for what are the company’s most important stakeholders.

  • Owners and the board
  • Financial institutions
  • Employees
  • Customers
  • Suppliers
  • Authorities
  • Educational institutions
  • The society around us

This matrix also shows the stakeholders’ demands and expectations of Mjørud, Mjørud’s demands and expectations of the stakeholders, as well as the risks and opportunities that the interaction with the stakeholders provides.

 

2. Guidelines and routines

Mjørud has requirements for its own employees regarding ethical behavior as well as requirements for ethical behavior for companies in the supply chain.

2.1 Internal obligations

Mjørud’s quality manual contains a section that outlines the behavior management and employees are committed to. It is expressed as follows:

Management is also committed to ensuring that both Mjørud and its employees behave ethically such that:

Every employee has the same rights and opportunities regardless of race, gender, age, religion, and sexual orientation. This also applies when choosing subcontractors.

Employees shall have contracts of employment according to Norwegian and international laws.

Agreements with clients and suppliers are entered into and implemented without any party receiving illegal remunerations.

2.2 Requirements for suppliers

All suppliers must sign a Supplier Declaration of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) document. This is also described in Mjørud’s process for approving suppliers. In this document, the suppliers confirm that they:

  • Work in accordance with international laws,
  • Ensure that agreements are entered into and carried out without any party receiving unfair remuneration or benefits,
  • Do not use child labor,
  • Having freedom of organization and the right to collective bargaining,
  • Ensure that both their own employees and hired labor have fair wages,
  • Have regulated working hours in accordance with legislation,
  • Ensure that there is no discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, age, religion, and sexual orientation,
  • Ensure the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples,
  • Act in an environmentally sound manner,
  • Ensure that the requirements in this document are passed on to their own suppliers.

3. Due diligence

Mjørud mainly has Norwegian and Western European suppliers. Furthermore, the company works actively to ensure long-term relationships with each supplier. This contributes to a good knowledge of the suppliers, making it easier to identify any negative consequences for human rights and ensure decent working conditions.

 

3.1 Obtaining information from subcontractors

Transparency Act § 5b Information regarding actual adverse impacts and significant risks of adverse impacts that the enterprise has identified through its due diligence.

All suppliers of Mjørud must sign the Supplier Declaration of Corporate Social Responsibility as described in section 2.2.

No circumstances have been identified with our suppliers that indicate their activities have negative consequences for human rights.

3.2 Measures because of obtained information

Transparency Act § 5c Information regarding measures the enterprise has implemented actual adverse impacts or mitigate significant risks of adverse impacts, and the results or expected results of these measures.

Conclusion

It has been assessed that it has not been necessary to take further measures with our suppliers to ensure human rights and decent working conditions