Beyond achieving its objectives in complying with regulations, SUEZ has integrated further responsibilities which the company considers relevant to its activities as an industrial group. The Group's overarching aim is to improve the quality of life and of the environment of those who work for and with it, of its clients and, more widely, of the communities in which it is present. Its subsidiaries have introduced a multitude of initiatives that are vectors for the Group's priorities of ensuring safe working conditions, safety of its installations, protection of a balanced natural environment at all of its facilities, and access to basic services for the disadvantaged.
The Group is doubly concerned by issues of public health and safety: first, because the water and waste management services it provides have an immediate effect on public health and, second, because, as an industrial operator, it must control the risks inherent to its operations. Designer, builder and operator of industrial facilities throughout the world, SUEZ is also aware of the necessity of associating its environmental policy with a respectful approach that values the landscape and that takes account of the diversity of human and natural environments.
