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CSR information 2.

2.1

NOTE ON METHODOLOGY

2.1.2

Social reporting

The content of the CSR chapters of this document reflects broad consultation with internal and external stakeholders. In-house, the Sectors, Activities, General Delegations and a responsible purchasing, financial communications, responsible number of corporate departments (human resources, order to enhance the report with examples. development, EHS, etc.) have been asked to contribute, in Externally, stakeholders are regularly consulted on general policy or various specific aspects of Saint-Gobain’s social Group’s CSR reporting and communications. responsibility. These consultations assist in developing the 2012 Grenelle II law. Economic Regulations (NRE) Act of 2001, as well as with the The reference bases used for social reporting, EHS reporting with the United Nations’ Global Compact and the French New and for defining indicators have been prepared in accordance In order to have a global reference framework, since 2011 indicators. This report was prepared using version G4. these reference bases follow GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) responsible for social reporting, regularly collaborates and The Saint-Gobain Group’s Social Affairs Department, which is Human Resources Department in order to improve doctrine exchanges information with leading contributors of the and reporting processes. standards, and enhance feedback from the sites. These the new EHS indicators, to monitor changes in international For EHS reporting, working groups suggest developments in committee level twice a year. proposals are then discussed and validated at management The data published on Saint-Gobain’s CSR, following the GRI systems: methodology, comes from three different Group reporting software for employee reporting and the annual social the social reporting system, supported by the Enablon ‹ software; report, which has a partial interface with the Smart’R management and reporting system, PeopleGroup, for ‹ managerial staff; known as Gaïa. the EHS (Environment, Health, Safety) reporting system ‹ Reference bases 2.1.1

a) Basis Scope of reporting Social reporting had a total of 1124 reporting entities and 646 consolidated companies at end 2016. The system used to count the number of employees (SIS), ‹ which is updated monthly, includes the fully consolidated consolidated total number of employees, and the Group companies. It forms the basis for calculation of the region, socio-professional category and contract type. distribution of employees by gender, Sector, geographic the Group’s social performance, is based on a limited The annual social report, created in 2002 to account for ‹ number of employees. All other social indicators are scope of reporting, representing 98,5% of the consolidated calculated on this basis. with their financial integration, and companies sold during the Newly integrated companies are accounted for in accordance past year are not included. b) Reporting tool three tools: Enablon, PeopleGroup and Smart’R. The data was The quantitative social data in this report was collected using consolidated for the Saint-Gobain Group as a whole. and the annual social reporting campaign. Since It supports the system for counting the number of employees January 2016, part of the Enablon employee data (covering coming from the Smart’R software, which incorporates 83% of the workforce at end December 2016) has been Smart’R will become the only reporting tool in 2017. information from the payroll systems. The intention is that Enablon HR is the Saint-Gobain Group’s social reporting tool. for managers. It is structured on the basis of the individual PeopleGroup is the Saint-Gobain Group’s management tool career management, annual interviewsand manager personnel file of each Group manager. The processes for compensation are also part of this system. the start of each month, based on changes in the scope of The Group’s organizational data is updated in PeopleGroup at reporting applied to the social report. Individual management employee files are updated in two ways: either manually by the company HR teams; ‹ (covering over 90% of Group employees in 2016). or by automated reporting from the local HR systems ‹

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