PSA International

Lobbying
The company discloses the list of its key membership associations and advocacy groups.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during stakeholder engagement, its channels of engagement, as well as how responses are integrated into its sustainability strategy.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts in relation to its sustainability strategy.

GHG emissions
The company reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions, aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory, and reports progress against its targets.

Water
The company reports the proportion of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion and community impact area.

Act ethically
The company has a publicly available policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption, outlining rules against making or inducing illegal or improper payments, and explicitly forbidding offering or accepting bribes in any form. It maintains a Supplier Code of Conduct that emphasises similar prohibitions and states that severe legal actions and sanctions, including termination of services, will be applied in response to any breaches. Additionally, the company provides an email and a telephone number to report grievances. It encourages whistleblowers to identify themselves to facilitate prompt review of reported issues while acknowledging the option for anonymity where permitted by law.

Provide and promote decent work
The company reports that 30% of its board members are female, with 3 out of 10 board positions held by women.

Respect human rights
No leading practices were identified in the core social indicators area.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets, as well as potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company has set some targets, it does not disclose group-wide, time-bound targets on all key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. No evidence was found that the company links performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

GHG emissions
The company has an opportunity to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, set a time-bound target to reduce it, and report against the target. The company has an opportunity to align its targets to a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Key areas and species
The company does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Solid and air pollution
The company is not reducing the production of hazardous waste. The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging. The company discloses the amount of office waste and packaging waste, which includes plastic waste. However, the company does not explicitly report on the amount of plastic waste generated, and the proportions directed from or to disposal. It also does not report metrics on air pollutants, nor set time-bound targets to reduce them.

Water
The company reports an overall increase in its total water withdrawal from water-stressed and non-water-stressed areas. The company does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not report relevant information on water pollution. The company has an opportunity to publicly commit to the right to water and to provide its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company has an opportunity to commit to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders. Moreover, it should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
The company lacks detailed processes for identifying bribery and corruption risks and has not fully disclosed its political engagement approach. Additionally, there is no clear policy on third-party compliance with its lobbying policies, and it does not detail its overall lobbying expenditures. The company has an opportunity to establish clear procedures for identifying bribery and corruption risks and to articulate a comprehensive approach to lobbying and political engagement.

Provide and promote decent work
The company provides some health and safety data but does not commit formally to respecting worker safety or disclose comprehensive injury types. It asserts compliance with industry wage standards but does not confirm if these meet living wage requirements nor does it discuss supporting living wage efforts by its business relationships. The company’s initiatives to promote inclusive workplaces are noted, yet it lacks a broad commitment to gender equality and empowerment. The company has an opportunity to formalise its commitment to health and safety, articulate its criteria for living wages, and set explicit targets for gender equality and empowerment.

Respect human rights
While the company asserts respect for human rights and zero tolerance for modern slavery, it lacks a formal, approved policy on these rights, including specific prohibitions against child and forced labour. The language used in its support of freedom of association and collective bargaining is not sufficiently strong to be deemed a formal commitment. Its materiality review identifies business risks but does not extend to a thorough human rights impact assessment. The company has an opportunity to formalise its human rights commitments and processes, particularly through detailed due diligence across its operations and business relationships, and to articulate a global strategy for human rights risk mitigation.