Code of conduct
Seven points. Not one of them is new.
These guidelines apply to everyone who works here and everyone who supplies us. They are short on purpose — readable in five minutes and attachable to a supplier questionnaire.
Scope
Who it applies to
These guidelines apply to every employee and everyone hired in at Rolvsøy Metallindustri AS, and they apply to every supplier and partner — including their own supply chain.
If you are a buyer covered by the Norwegian Transparency Act, point 6 is what you are looking for: it sets out the requirements we pass down the chain, with a reference to the ILO conventions. You can cite the page directly, or ask us for it as an attachment.
Points 1–3
How we operate
1. Environmental responsibility
We are conscious of our environmental responsibility, and we aim to minimise the environmental impact of our production — including transport and other activities. Our partners are also required to comply with environmental regulations, seek to minimise resource use, and take an active part in recycling and waste reduction.
In practice that means our main feedstock is recycled aluminium, that all process water runs in a closed loop, that waste heat from melting heats the building, and that we have our own solar installation. The technical review we run on every drawing — "positive product criticism" — is part of the same thing: less metal per part is both a lower footprint and a lower price.
2. Health and safety
Every employee has the right to work in a safe and healthy environment. Everyone carries a personal responsibility for following our health and safety rules. We work continuously so that everyone in the business has the best possible indoor air quality.
This is not a phrase lifted from a template. A foundry melts metal at 680–700 °C. Indoor air, extraction and protective equipment are what decide whether people are still in the job at 67.
3. Compliance with laws and regulations
We run our production in accordance with applicable laws and regulations on employment, health, safety and the environment.
Points 4–5
How we treat each other
4. Fair employment practice
We maintain fair employment practices and promote equal opportunity for all employees and subcontractors. Discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability or other protected characteristics is strictly prohibited.
Decisions on hiring, promotion and dismissal must rest on merit, qualifications and ability — nothing else.
5. Ethical conduct
We accept no form of discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, nationality, gender, cultural background, race, age, disability, religion or sexual orientation.
We do not accept sexual harassment or other improper behaviour such as bullying, threats or abuse of power. Sexual harassment means any conduct of a sexual nature that is unwanted by the person concerned — imposed or unnecessary physical contact, lewd remarks, and comments or approaches of a sexual character.
Speaking ill of colleagues or spreading rumours is unacceptable.
We reject every form of social dumping, and we keep that in mind when we choose partners.
We encourage employees and subcontractors to report breaches of these guidelines. In a company of five, the route is short: tell management, or write to firmapost@rmetall.no. Anyone who speaks up in good faith should suffer no disadvantage for it.
Point 6
What we require of our suppliers
We place requirements on our supply chain, and we assume zero tolerance of bullying, harassment, corporal punishment, coercion and other disrespectful treatment of employees at our suppliers — and in their own supply chain.
We have zero tolerance of child labour, and we expect every business connection to follow the ILO conventions on child labour.
We expect suppliers and partners to live up to the terms and principles in this document. The ability to document and commit correspondingly carries weight both when we assess a new relationship and when we evaluate an existing one.
The Norwegian Transparency Act
The Transparency Act requires larger undertakings to carry out and publish due diligence assessments of fundamental human rights and decent working conditions in their own operations and in their supply chain. The thresholds follow the Accounting Act.
Rolvsøy Metallindustri AS falls below those thresholds and is therefore not subject to the Act. We have published the requirements above regardless, because they are right either way — and because customers who are covered need documentation down their own chain. If you need a written answer for your due diligence assessment, you will get one.
Please note that we do not carry out formal, documented due diligence assessments under the Act's methodology, and we do not claim to. The requirements above are contractual expectations, not an audited due diligence programme.
Point 7
Anti-corruption
We have zero tolerance of corruption and bribery.
Offering, giving or receiving gifts or benefits is prohibited where the intent or the effect is improper influence on a business or decision-making process.
That does not mean gifts and courtesies are banned. They must be reasonable, proportionate, given in good faith and transparent — the kind of thing you could describe without hesitating. If you are in doubt, speak to your immediate manager. If you are a supplier and in doubt, ask us.
Honesty
What we cannot document
A code of conduct that lists only what goes well is worth little in a supplier assessment. So here is the other half:
- We hold no ISO certification today. Neither ISO 9001, ISO 14001, IATF 16949 nor Miljøfyrtårn. If a certification programme is started, we update this page the same day.
- We have no EPD and no carbon accounting. The environmental measures in point 1 are real, but they are not quantified in a third-party verified document. If you need emissions figures for a procurement, say so — that is the documentation we know we lack.
- We have no quantified environmental targets with a deadline.
- We do not inspect our suppliers on site. The requirements in point 6 are placed contractually and assessed from the documentation a supplier presents — not through audit visits.
We write this down because a buyer who discovers it unaided starts wondering what else went unmentioned.
Supplier assessment
Do you need this as an attachment?
If your procurement system wants a signed document rather than a link, we send it the same day. The same goes for answers to your due diligence assessment.