NABC’s Ownership, Management and Employees are committed to the highest standards of corporate responsibility. NABC endeavors to fulfill these obligations with utmost integrity, good faith, and honesty. NABC’s approach to corporate responsibility is organized in 6 main areas:
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Business Standards and Ethics - The Company's business and ethical standards are fundamental to how the Company operates, and include workplace policies, hiring, training, business conduct guidelines, and ethical and legal standards.
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Community - NABC is in a unique position to be a positive force in the communities we serve by continually building on NABC’s long tradition of addressing important social issues and catastrophe in the United States and around the world. NABC Cares is a Christian-based philanthropic division of the Company promoting our social responsibility initiatives.
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Environment - The Company is committed to balancing environmental stewardship with its corporate goals and operations worldwide.
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Safety and Security - The safety of our employees, customers and visitors is of paramount importance to us. NABC field staff engages a safety program focused on awareness and customer site safety policy. NABC reviews and makes improvements to this and other safety programs as needed.
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Human Resources, Employee Security and Wellbeing - NABC also actively commits to the welfare, development, and growth of its employees and continually seeks to foster a healthy environment in which to work. NABC’s commitment is to allow our employees to focus on accomplishing goals and removing any barriers to this end.
- Industry Support - NABC considers it responsible and appropriate to commit resources to organizations and affiliates which create positive awareness, promote policies, regulations and research and development initiatives that will lead to the increased production and use of fuel ethanol.
Business Standards and Ethics
NABC hires and regularly reviews employees in this area. All employees must share a fiduciary sense of responsibility to NABC, fellow employees, management, its customers and any other person or entity related to the normal operation of the company. Vendors and customers trust NABC because of our commitment to them and to the standards to which we hold ourselves. Each employee alone is responsible for upholding our excellence and our integrity both as individuals and collectively as an organization. This means acting responsibly in all our professional relationships, in a manner consistent with the high standards we set for our business conduct and the company's profitability objectives.
Upholding legal standards of conduct is mandatory for every employee, however, we are also responsible for maintaining ethical standards. These standards govern how we treat everyone with whom we work with internally and whom we have contact. These are standards of integrity, honesty, trust, respect, fair play, loyalty and teamwork. In short, these are the standards we want NABC to continue to uphold in the future as NABC makes a very high level commitment to its employees and their families.
Community
NABC Cares is a Christian-Based philanthropic division of the Company promoting our social responsibility initiatives. NABC Cares endeavors to make a greater impact in the United States and around the world by being responsive to the citizenship needs of the communities where we live and work. Our programs, which also include customized local initiatives, are focused on those areas where we feel we can make a unique and sustainable difference. We continually seek to affect the lives of children through medical research funding and Science education. If you would like to suggest an initiative or offer your monetary or voluntary support, please contact Mollie Dailey, Managing Director.
Human Resources, and Employee Security and Wellbeing
North American Bioproducts Corporation's employees are essential to fulfilling our business goals. Our mission is to continually develop and drive the people element of our business, consistent with NABC's objectives, culture and values. NABC is founded in traditional values, however is often the environment of aggressive marketing, sales and change. Employees must be able to offer flexibility in their endeavors without abandoning their personal and company standards and ethics.
Hiring Practices
It is the policy of North American Bioproducts Corporation to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by state or federal law.
Harassment Prevention and Discrimination Policies
North American Bioproducts Corporation's policy to prohibit employees from harassing any other employee, guest or other person in the course of the company's business for any reason prohibited by law, including, but not limited to, race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, covered veteran status, mental or physical disability, pregnancy or any other basis prohibited by state or federal law.
Industry Support
North American Bioproducts Corporation considers it responsible and appropriate to commit resources to organizations and affiliates which create positive awareness, promote policies, regulations and research and development initiatives that will lead to the increased production and use of fuel ethanol. Besides supporting NABC's business interests, the management and employees of NABC believe that alternative energy and Fuel Ethanol in particular are important components of forward thinking energy, national security, environmental and fiscal United States Policy.
Organizations Supported:
- Renewable Fuels Association (RFA)
- American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE)
- Kansas Ethanol Board
- Wisconsin Bio Industry Alliance
- North Dakota Ethanol Producers Association
