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Societal impact

We touch the lives of millions of people every day, providing employment to hundreds of thousands around the world, and delivering crucial services to help keep society safe and secure.
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Our Priority Areas (ESG Materiality)

To help ensure that our sustainability strategy remains focused in the areas that are most relevant to our business and its stakeholders, we regularly undertake a wide-ranging materiality review of ESG issues. From a baseline of 17 core ESG issues, all of which are important to our success as a responsible business, our assessment confirms five crucial priority areas.

1. Employee safety and well-being

2. Anti-bribery and corruption

3. Human rights and duty of care

4. Governance, compliance, and industry standards

5. Culture, values, and behaviour

To understand the most pressing ESG issues facing our business and industry, we conducted a comprehensive materiality assessment in 2023.  Working with independent experts, we engaged with a wide range of stakeholders, including Allied Universal executives, ESG analysts, industry associations, customers, investors, and NGOs, through interviews and surveys. This process helped us identify key risks and opportunities and highlighted the paramount importance of ethics, a strong compliance culture, and aligned values and behaviours for effective ESG management.

Social Value

During our consultation, stakeholders recognized that our business model creates a significant positive impact on society.

  • Secure and stable communities
  • Employee safety and well-being
  • Culture, values, and behaviours
  • Recruitment, retention, and development of people
  • New technologies and innovations
UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals

Core UN Sustainable Development Goals

We contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), recognising their importance as global objectives for enhancing sustainability and quality of life.
Through our investments, solutions, and practices, we actively support the realisation of specific SDGs, while indirectly contributing to many others, making a tangible positive difference in
communities across the globe.

 
   sustainable development goal 5 Sustainable Development Goal 8   Sustainable Development Goal 13 Climate  Sustainable Development Goal 16PeaceJusticeInstitutions
 

UN SDG 5

UN SDG 8

UN SDG 13

UN SDG 16
  Achieve gender equality and
empower all women and girls.		 Promote sustained and inclusive economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. Take urgent action to
combat climate change and
its impacts.

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to
justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
 

We have a clear commitment
to diversity, equity and inclusion, ensuring opportunities and taking positive steps to ensure representation of women and minorities.

 Our aim is to be an employer of choice. Our HR strategy is facilitated by establishing industry-leading employment
practices.		 Our ambition is to become a net-zero carbon
emissions company by
2050 or sooner, in step
with society.		 We play an important role
in society - creating a safe and positive environment in which millions of people live and work.
 

How we support realization of
Goal 5:

  • Promoting diversity, equity
    and inclusion throughout
    our policies.
  • Commitment to eliminating
    bullying, harassment
    and discrimination in the
    workplace.
  • Increased gender balance in
    leadership roles.
  • Empowering female
    team members through
    information and
    communication technology
    equipment and training.
  • Access to Speak Out
    programs to raise concerns
    about mistreatment.

How we support realization of
Goal 8:

  • Creating technology focused
    and high-skill roles.
  • Creating direct and indirect
    employment opportunities for
    millions of people.
  • Safety programs that are
    reducing workplace injuries
    and fatalities over time,
    particularly in markets
    where the safety culture
    and infrastructure are less
    established.
  • Commitment to and
    implementation of
    international labour standards.
  • Providing career
    opportunities through our
    steadfast "promote from
    within culture".

How we support realization of Goal 13:

    • Incorporating adverse
      weather and climate
      change impacts into
      business risk and
      continuity planning.
    • Commitment to
      reducing carbon
      emissions in line with
      science-based targets.
    • Incorporating education
      on climate change
      issues into our net-zero
      carbon strategy.

 

     

     

How we support realization of
Goal 16:

  • Reducing violence, crime and conflict related harm through provision of proactive security services.
  • Enabling the rehabilitation of offenders in our care.
  • Anti-bribery and corruption awareness and procedures, helping to reduce illegal finance flows.
  • Supporting innovation and delivery within public institutions. Commitment to antidiscrimination within our own organization and operational procedures.

Speak Out

One of our core values, Integrity, highlights the importance of always doing the right thing, and our Speak Out Global Hotline, encourages our people to do just that – to blow the whistle and report concerns about wrongdoing, such as breaches of laws, regulations or company policy.

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Speak Out
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