Petzl - 2024 professional catalog

Reduce Our Carbon Intensity In 2020, we worked with Carbone 4 to measure the comprehensive carbon impact of our operations in 2019 from the extraction of raw materials to the end of a product s life. Our footprint was equal to 45,000 metric tons of CO2. Three areas accounted for 75% of our emissions: raw materials (34%), transport of goods (24%), energy used to power our headlamps (17%). In 2021, we created initiatives to reduce our carbon footprint: prioritize the use of materials with the least impact, improve the durability and repairability of our products, shrink the distances our goods travel, and reduce our energy consumption. By 2030, our goal is to reduce our total carbon footprint by 50% per euro in sales.

Four Actionable Commitments At Petzl, we re focused on four commitments that respond to the primary concerns of over 2,000 of our internal stakeholders (employees, subsidiaries, family shareholders) and external stakeholders (clients, users, suppliers, associations, and NGOs). We are manifesting these four commitments through hands-on projects with measurable outcomes.

Improve Our Employee Satisfaction Our strong and consistent growth, coupled with the complex issues of the pandemic, has the potential to affect employee health. In 2021, we evaluated the satisfaction of all Petzl employees in France using the Wittyfit platform. The survey covers topics including organization and work load, autonomy, work/life balance, recognition, as well as purpose and values. Using the results, we created action plans to improve satisfaction some carried out by leadership and others co-created and led by the teams. In 2023, this satisfaction audit was extended to all Petzl employees on a global level.

Improve the Labor Conditions of Our Suppliers Since 2010, our responsible purchasing initiative has aimed to ensure that all our suppliers comply with the Petzl code of conduct. This code aligns with International Labor Organization (ILO) directives: Our objectives are to improve social, environmental, health, and safety practices at all of our suppliers. We ve created an annual evaluation of CSR practices for suppliers representing 80% of our purchases. We ve offered reinforced support for 25% of our suppliers in their continued improvement plans. We are also collaborating with other manufacturers to combine our audit efforts and reaffirm our CSR standards for common suppliers.

Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Our Waste The waste from our industrial and commercial operations produces a variety of pollutants. We re taking action in our factories, warehouses, and offices to reach three objectives by 2025: - Eliminate single-use plastics in our packaging and supply chain - Reuse 50% of our cardboard and palettes, recycle the rest - Recycle 80% of our metal, plastic, cardboard and wood waste, put the rest towards energy recovery

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