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Environment
All business activities impact the environment but given the nature of NOSA’s business, it is classified as a low impact company which does not have a significant environmental impact. The primary environmental focus for NOSA is therefore on energy and water conservation, recycling and limiting paper usage, and creating employee awareness of environmental responsibility.
Social
NOSA is committed to treating all stakeholders with respect, dignity and fairness, while empowering its employees and the communities in which it operates.
Employee Relations
The long-term sustainability of NOSA is dependent on several factors, a crucial factor being its relationship with its employees. The company ensures that its core values of innovation, service excellence, integrity and responsibility are instilled throughout the business. All employees abide by a code of conduct which ensures that a comfortable work environment is maintained. NOSA endeavours to promote a fair and open work environment where communication is encouraged. Furthermore, all executives of the company adhere to an open door policy.
Training and development
NOSA strives to attract and retain high caliber individuals and focuses on developing its employees through internal and external training. We support the skills development of our employees by providing financial assistance to enhance their qualifications through further education, providing in-house training, and offering staff the opportunity to attend external training courses presented by accredited trainers.
Equal opportunities and broad-based black economic empowerment (“B-BBEE”)
NOSA’s holding company, MICROmega, is an equal opportunity employer and subscribes to the Codes of Good Practice issued under the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003, as amended. Each subsidiary in MICROmega is responsible for improving its B-BBEE score and to ensure that employment opportunities are provided within the communities in which they operate, to which NOSA adheres.
Health & safety
Given the diversity of the various business sectors in our holding company, each subsidiary is required to implement and maintain sector specific health and safety controls to ensure that any risks are effectively mitigated. To this end, the Risk Committee has elected one of its members to manage all health and safety risks within the group.
The health and safety of every employee within the organisation is a top priority for NOSA. Given the sector in which we operate, we view ourselves as somewhat of a ‘role model” to all our stakeholders in this regard. Furthermore, NOSA recognises that HIV/Aids still remains one of the greatest socio-economic challenges to South Africa. As such, we encourage our employees to act responsibly and we support a workplace that is free of prejudice.
Corporate Social Responsibility
NOSA is not only dedicated to investing in innovation and inspiring success within the corporate playing field, but also in our approach to our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Recognizing that South Africa is a diverse nation in need of assistance in all facets of society, each year we take the opportunity to invest in a multitude of different charities, consciously choosing to spread our scope of assistance across these various areas of need. When deciding the most effective way to make an impact, we assessed each charity individually and identified a trend in their need for financial assistance to facilitate their sustainability for the year. We believe that it is equally important for a successful corporate to share not only their time but their financial means with those that will use the finances to create safe, secure and inspiring platforms for the less fortunate needing the help.
With this in mind, NOSA contributes, by way of donations and fund raisers, to various children’s homes, crèches and schools, as well as to ‘Save the Rhino’.
Click to download NOSA’s gift of warmth – Winter 2012 PDF
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