GENOA, JANUARY 14 – The Board of Directors of Esaote, a leading Italian company in the biomedical sector – ultrasound, dedicated magnetic resonance imaging and information technology for healthcare – has decided to sign up to the United Nations Global Compact, the United Nations biggest global initiative dedicated to corporate citizenship and sustainability, created to encourage companies around the world to adopt a voluntary code with sustainable policies, to align their strategies with the universal principles on human rights, employment, environmental sustainability and the fight against corruption.
“The health of humans, animals, and the ecosystem have always been inextricably linked for Esaote. Promoting a culture of sustainability, enhancing human capital, ensuring health and safety in the workplace, increasing people’s well-being, reducing environmental impact, investing in research and development for a sustainable, resilient and durable ecosystem: these are the pillars of the strategy Esaote is implementing for its development, which goes hand in hand with the multidisciplinary One Health approach aimed at reducing risks to health”, stated Franco Fontana, CEO of Esaote S.p.A.
The decision to joint the Global Compact is part of a long-term strategy that also includes the drafting of a sustainability report, the dissemination of socio-economic, ethical and environmental standards to suppliers and subsidiaries, the analysis and verification of value creation in the supply chain, all the way to the training of employees and business partners to ensure that an appropriate culture of ethics is in place.
Esaote currently has approximately 1,180 employees. With facilities in Genoa and Florence, and production and research units in Italy and the Netherlands, the company has offices in over 100 countries across the world. (@OnuItalia)
