Business integrity
Read more here about the business integrity of BOSKA Food Tools: ethical code of conduct, whistleblower policy and anti-corruption program.
Ethical code of conduct
- Any physical or virtual gifts to personnel of customers or suppliers are collected centrally by the HR department and distributed back to personnel via a lottery.
- BOSKA does not allow customers to pay their invoices via a third party bank account. Payment should always be done via direct group companies.
- BOSKA does not pay additional fees to suppliers other than direct compensation for goods and services
- BOSKA offers goodie bags to customers, suppliers and stakeholders in general to share the passion for quality food tools.
- BOSKA does not donate to political parties, politicians, advocacy groups and lobby groups.
- BOSKA does donate to charitable organizations. Please see our impact report on usa.boska.com/pages/impact.
- Code of ethics are shared with personnel via Personnel Guide and Sharepoint and externally via usa.boska.com/pages/business-integrity.
Whistleblower policy
- Unwanted manners BOSKA Staff
Parties related to BOSKA and BOSKA staff can share any concerns with respect to unwanted manners of BOSKA staff via the following people:- Cezan Hoyle (HR BOSKA), phone number 0031-(0)6 820 974 33, e-mail address cezan.hoyle@boska.com
- Denise van Mourik (Confidant, BOSKA employee), e-mail address denise.vanmourik@boska.com
- Judith Jansen (Confidant, ArboNed), telefoonnummer 0031-(0)6 421 245 27, e-mailadres judith.jansen@arboned.nl
- Concerns of any other nature related to BOSKA can be reported to the following people:
- Mike Steenvoorden (CFO BOSKA), mike.steenvoorden@boska.com, phone number 0031-(0)172-611 502
Anti-corruption program
To prohibit corruption BOSKA has the following measures:
- Behavior of corruptive nature can be reported to the CFO of BOSKA Mike Steenvoorden, mike.steenvoorden@boska.com, phone 0031-(0)172-611 502.
- Annual questionnaire under BOSKA Staff to measure if all staff is up-to-date with respect to anti-corruption and understands what is acceptable and what is not.
- HR sends an annual survey to all staff and collects the results which are presented by the CFO to the DT, MT and Staff.
- As also mentioned in our BOSKA Code of Ethics:
- Any physical or virtual gifts to personnel of customers or suppliers are collected centrally by the HR department and distributed back to personnel via a lottery.
- BOSKA does not allow customers to pay their invoices via a third party bank account. Payment should always be done by the company itself or via direct group companies (parent company.)
- BOSKA does not pay additional fees to suppliers other than direct compensation for goods and services
- BOSKA offers goodie bags to customers, suppliers and stakeholders in general to share the passion for quality Food Tools.
- Conduct internal review of anti-corruption program and present results to management. Results of the internal review of the anti-corruption program are presented by the CFO to the DT and MT during the official MT and DT meetings.
- Results and follow-up actions are shared with staff (by means of meetings and the internal system) and relevant stakeholders.