About COWI

Human rights

Principle 1:Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rightsIn COWI, respect for human rights means respect for the people that we have an impact on in our project related services. Respect is an integrated part of COWI’s culture and is one of the five guiding values for the COWI Group: “We respect those we work with, nature and society. We respect each other in decision-making and implementation. We respect friendship across the organization, independent of the hierarchy”.

In COWI we work according to nationally ratified human rights treaties and work towards incorporating the Global Compact principles into the internal quality systems and procedures at COWI. We have come a long way, but there is still room for improvement to ensure that our systems are used on a regularly basis world-wide.

Principle 2:Business should make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses

In COWI’s Policy for Sustainable Development, we commit ourselves to take social aspects into consideration in connection with the assignments we perform for our clients. We also direct our employees’ attention to and enhance their knowledge about social conditions in order to further the consideration for sustainable development in all our activities. By incorporating these policies into risk assessment systems, we aim to avoid complicity in human rights abuses.

At project level, COWI DK has developed a Health Safety, Environmental and Social Screening procedure to ensure that these concerns are incorporated into the daily project management. This quality system has been revised to increase the focus on local communities and social and environmental risks in our supply chain.

Policies and principles relating to Human Rights

COWI’s value on Respect
Policy for Sustainable Development
COWI dk Health, Safety, Environmental & social Screening (HSE&S)
FIDIC’s “Sustainable Development in the Consulting Engineering Industry – a Strategy Paper” (2000) by FIDIC, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers.