Corporate responsibility is a business approach that is helping companies redefine and achieve business success: by managing your environmental, social and economic impacts and your stakeholder relationships more effectively, you can build a competitive edge in attracting customers and investors and stimulate long-term profitability.

Corporate responsibility helps you maintain your social license to operate. It is a business strategy for addressing a wide range of risks and opportunities arising from human rights, labour rights and environmental standards to fraud, community and marketplace practices.

DNV’s corporate responsibility solutions can help you integrate these issues into your internal processes and put environmental, social and economic sustainability at the heart of your business.

We provide targeted risk management solutions across these areas, from management system certification, risk profiles and assessments to reporting assurance, supply chain and climate change services. Partner with DNV for the solution that improves your performance and your reputation.

We provide a wide range of tailored solutions that use our expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Verification of sustainability reporting to the DNV Verification Protocol to assure stakeholders that your reporting is trustworthy.

• Corporate responsibility assessment - a risk profile and performance rating against industry standards and international best practices.

• Corporate governance assessment – a risk assessment of your company's governance practices and the effectiveness of management controls.

• Fraud & corruption resistance assessment - a profile and rating of your organisation's ability to manage risk related to fraud and corruption.

• Social Accountability - certification against the SA8000 standard to demonstrate your commitment to ethical production of goods.

• Climate Change services to help you demonstrate your commitment to managing greenhouse gas emissions and sustainable development.

• isrs7 - a management tool to help your company establish, document, and improve management systems, focusing on the environment, health safety and quality in the workplace.

• Management systems - our Risk Based Certification™ methodology helps you identify where to concentrate improvement efforts while checking compliance with selected management system standards.

Our customers operate in different markets with different political, social, and cultural environments. This influences how they operate and what customers, authorities, investors, community groups and other stakeholders expect of them. Your company is unique. We don’t believe in a rigid ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach. We work with you to find a solution that meets your specific needs.

There is not one right way to approach or communicate on corporate responsibility today. It is an emerging field, with new ideas being suggested and tested all the time. DNV can help you navigate through this complex landscape of codes, guidelines and best practices.

DNV participates in a number of international forums dedicated to develop guidelines and direction for managing Corporate Responsibility risks, such as the UN Global Compact, ISO 26000, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and Transparency International (TI).

DNV helps companies achieve safe and sustainable growth through responsible business practices.