Goal 5: Demonstrate our Commitment to Governance

GOAL 5:

Demonstrate our Commitment to Governance

Governance is crucial – it provides a framework for effectively managing an organisation, helps good decision making and ensures everyone within an organisation understands their responsibilities and expectations. A strong, transparent corporate governance framework reassures our stakeholders and communities of our high standards and ethical values, and is vital to Quintis enduring as a responsible, sustainable and accountable corporation.

GOAL 5

Our Commitments

We commit to engaging in forest management practices that are consistent with the highest industry standard including the principles of the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) and the criteria of Responsible Wood (AS4708).

We will create a ‘Code of Conduct’ for partners we work with to ensure the highest standards of ethics and governance. This includes implementing a risk assessment process to assess our partners’ commitments to international labour rights before agreeing to work with them by December 2022.

We hold over 20 global and local certifications. We will continue to maintain these annually and extend ourselves to obtain new ones where they add value to our business and provide stakeholders with added assurances. These will be published on our website.

We do not in any way, condone, nor partake in, animal testing. We will publish our ‘No Animal Testing’ policy for release by 2022. Our existing Mt Romance and Quintis skincare products are not tested on animals, and the new range will not be tested on animals either.

We will provide clients with documentation verifying product origin and authenticity by July 2022.

We fully support Australia’s Modern Slavery Act 2018 and will develop and share our statement in support of this by early 2022.