Ethics & Compliance
In the world around us, compliance cannot simply be summarized as doing things well. It is a question of operational excellence, company's success, and risks reduction.
The foundation of our Compliance Policy falls under the company's Code of Conduct.
Defined according to the highest international standards, applicable in all countries, at all sites, the Code of Conduct applies to all employees, on land and at sea, and anyone working on behalf of BOURBON: contractors, temps, etc. It also applies to business partners and suppliers.
Convinced that supplier’s commitment to ethical conduct and integrity is a strong foundation to create trustworthy business relationships and shared values, BOURBON asks its suppliers to comply with the principles set out in its new Supplier Code of conduct. This document explains how we expect our supplier to work with us ethically and in compliance with applicable laws.
BOURBON reserves the right, to terminate business relations with companies that don't respect its compliance and ethics rules.
Compliance is everyone’s business. That’s a way to express trust and transparency towards our colleagues, managers and all our stakeholders, particularly our clients and suppliers.
Ethical alert system: Towards a strengthening of the confidentiality of information
Because situations on the field can be complex, BOURBON an ethical alert system which complements the procedures already in place. This system gives the opportunity to all BOURBON employees and stakeholders to alert, in a confidential manner, about any behaviour contrary to the BOURBON Code of Conduct, and thus enabling everyone in the prevention of non-compliance risks.
Because situations on the field can be complex, BOURBON an ethical alert system which complements the procedures already in place. This system gives the opportunity to all BOURBON employees and stakeholders to alert, in a confidential manner, about any behaviour contrary to the BOURBON Code of Conduct, and thus enabling everyone in the prevention of non-compliance risks.
Today, BOURBON is strengthening its ethics alert system by setting up a confidential web platform secured by a certified third party, a simple digital alert collection and processing process accessible to all employees, in 10 languages (english, french, spanish, portuguese, russian, malay, ukrainian, romanian, arabic & italian) available 24/7: bourbon.signalement.net
The submission of an ethical alert is optional and not mandatory. According to CNIL regulation (ref.2017-191), you can access and modify your personal data asking to this e-mail.
A culture of compliance
To ensure Compliance to be, ever more, an integral part of its corporate culture, and to guarantee the proper application of rules, BOURBON deployed all over the world a dedicated organization and a steering and monitoring committee, associated to risk analysis tools. Its Compliance managers network, in all the organisations of the group, guarantee the correct local implementation of guidances. It also ensures the relay of the internal awareness and mobilization campaign, whose themes clearly affirms the group’s ambition: “Compliance, no Compromise”. If the Code of Conduct is the foundation of BOURBON’s Compliance policy, the e-learning sessions, followed by the employees, onshore and offshore, and the ethical hotline, enabling to report a risk situation, allow everyone to be actor in preventing the non-compliance risks.
The BOURBON Code of Conduct is published in 2 languages and is distributed to BOURBON employees and partners.
