Saint Gobain - Registration document 2016

10 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND CROSS-REFERENCES TABLES 2. CSR information

Human resources managers and their assistants have access to their scope of reporting in PeopleGroup so as to keep positions are filed. The data needed for analysis and the individual information up to date. Changes in manager managers is extracted using the Microstrategy reporting tool publication of spreadsheets relating to the management of add-on to PeopleGroup. identified as such in the social performance section. All indicators taken from the PeopleGroup database are The GRI-HR questionnaire is completed each year by the HR Departments of the General Delegations and Activities in internal stakeholders when drafting the report. France in order to collect qualitative indicators, and consult c) Continuous improvement The Saint-Gobain Group has taken a voluntary and data, through: progressive approach to enhancing the reliability of its social English; defined in the Group’s doctrine, available in French and in application of the rules for calculating the social indicators contributors (800) to ensure proper understanding and continuous exchanges of information with reporting ‹ the choice of indicators, in the interests of stability to ‹ possible; ensure the reliability of comparisons over time, as far as external assessment; the annual submission of a selection of social data for ‹ collection and consolidation level; strengthening of the controls implemented at each ‹ between shared service centers (SSC), Smart’R and from January 2016, a growing number of interfaces ‹ Enablon, to ensure continuous improvement in data quality. d) Data consolidation The reporting process is organized into five stages: updating the Group scope of reporting. Each month, ‹ collection software parameters to be updated; changes involving acquisitions, sales or mergers require the contributors at company level; certain indicators are collection of data in questionnaires, which is carried out by ‹ pre-completed via an interface with Smart’R;

validation by the person in charge of human resources ‹ country, this takes place either at the company level or at management for the scope in question; depending on the the General Delegation level; verification and consolidation within the Group’s Social ‹ Affairs Department; Department. management tools for the Group’s Human Resources the report allows spreadsheets to be generated as ‹ indicators in 2016. The data collected now include all training reliable, the Group redefined the principles for these employment contracts. To make the training data report in hours or in associated cost. for apprentices is no more integrated in the global reporting, hours appropriately substantiated as such. In France, training Further, data on local contexts is sometimes impossible to more limited scope of reporting than the scope of the annual collect. Therefore, certain indicators are calculated over a social reporting campaign. This scope is defined each time. Lastly, the process of transitioning social reporting to the new 80% of employees is now available in the system, sourced Smart’R reporting tool began in January. Information on over directly via an interface with the payroll systems, and presence. covering numerous countries in which the Group has a to ensure that reporting could be provided for Saint-Gobain’s Enablon was retained for the 2016 CSR reporting campaign populate the Enablon database via an interface, which may entire scope. The Smart’R employee records are used to relayed. have created some inaccuracies in the information being An additional validation step has been introduced to remedy such problems. example, with the concepts of training or permanent contexts (national laws or practices). This is the case, for indicators are sometimes interpreted according to local indicators are distributed each year to contributors, but the Group is active. The principles for calculating social reporting The main difficulty lies in the variety of countries in which the e) Difficulties and restrictions

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