Exercising Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) means to strive for balance between the environmental, social, and economic performance of your business. Triple bottom line reporting is a way to inform stakeholders of your performance along environmental, social, and economic parameters.

However, to produce relevant and reliable reports, you need internal management and information systems. Your real challenge is to integrate sustainable development issues in your internal processes, e.g. through an environmental management system or social accountability programme.

Human rights, labour rights, community, marketplace, and environment are the main areas emerging from diverse approaches to CSR. DNV provides both management system certification and climate change services targeting these areas and can assist your business in its approach to CSR.

Partner with DNV for:

• Social Accountability system certification to SA 8000. Demonstrate your commitment to ethical production of goods.
  
• Occupational Health and Safety Management System certification to OHSAS 18001. Demonstrate your commitment to protecting the health and safety of your employees.
  
• Environmental Management System certification to ISO 14001 and EMAS. Demonstrate your commitment to environmentally sound operations.
  
• Climate Change services. Demonstrate your commitment to managing greenhouse gas emissions and sustainable development.
  
• eBusiness Management System certification to EBtrust. Demonstrate trust and confidence in your eBusiness.
  
• Quality Management System certification to ISO 9001. Demonstrate your commitment to customer satisfaction and quality improvement.

Companies operate in different markets with different political, social, and cultural environments. This influences how you operate and what customers, authorities, non-governmental organisations, and other stakeholders expect of you. CSR is an emerging field continually under development. There is not one right way to exercise or report on CSR today. It is a learning process for all of us. To be able to serve you better, we are building our internal competence on CSR through our research programme Organisation of the future. DNV is also a participant in a number of international forums dedicated to develop guidelines and direction for CSR.