Sustainability of Union of mutual memory gets higher rating of the GRI

This fifth memory offers the performances and the results of the desempeños economic, social and environmental of the entity, that bases his model of management in the efficiency and in the ethical commitment with his groups of interest, contributing to provide a preventive sanitary system, just and effective.

The main achievements during the past year include the II training in ethics and social responsibility plan to all its employees, the implementation of the Plan of equality, the development of the Plan of accessibility, the development of the Green Office, and the renewal of the accession to the global compact, an initiative of ethical commitment to the ten principles of conduct and action in the field of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. Since 2007 mutual Union is attached to the United Nations Global Compact and in 2010 has joined a joint initiative of the Global Compact and the Fund of United Nations development for women (Unifem) for the empowerment of women.

As regards environmental care, Union of mutual, according to the ISO 14001 certification, annually evaluates the impact of its activity on the environment in order to develop appropriate actions to minimize it.

One of the basic pillars of 2010 has been energy efficiency and reduction of costs, what has enabled remarkable progress in the concept of sustainability both from the economic perspective and environmental strategy of Union of mutual.

In addition, during 2010 the mutual renewed quality ISO standards 9001 and 14001, he managed the UNE 166002 of r & d and has continued to progress made in the EFQM model, that mutual account with seal 400 + in order to get the 500 +.