Our commitments
Colas Environnement is committed to the protection of individuals and their environment.
Sustainable development challenges
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not a trend, it is a groundswell.
Social cohesion, climate change, preservation of resources and biodiversity, improvement of the living environment... The expectations and motivations of stakeholders, especially employees of the Colas Group and Colas Environnement, are very strong.
Colas Environnement responds to this thanks to its human-centered culture, combined with its values of respect, audacity and sharing, but also to the proximity of its establishments to the territories, to its capacity for innovation...
Our approach
Colas Environnement's social responsibility approach is based on the double conviction that its businesses contribute to the satisfaction of essential needs and aspirations and that they can and should be carried out in a responsible manner. Colas Environnement must integrate contemporary expectations and contradictions: social cohesion, climate change, climate change, loss of biodiversity, preservation of resources, needs to move and to live, improvement of the living environment, energy transition, resource management, increasing ethical expectations, etc.
This approach as well as the associated goals and actions are consistent with the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Half of these objectives relate directly to the businesses of the Colas Group and therefore to Colas Environnement, in particular on the following themes: access to health, gender equality, use of renewable energies, access to decent jobs, innovation and infrastructure, innovation and infrastructure, innovation and infrastructure, sustainable cities and infrastructures, sustainable cities and communities, sustainable cities and communities, sustainable cities and communities, responsible consumption, responsible consumption, fight against climate change, and protection of fauna and flora.
Challenges based on notions of risks and opportunities
Colas Environnement is implementing this approach around several major challenges based on concepts of risks and opportunities, whether it is a question of the specificities of its businesses or a requirement for progress common to companies in all sectors of activity.
Colas Environnement identifies the strengths and weaknesses of its management system in order to identify risks and opportunities. Identifying these risks and opportunities makes it possible to prioritize the actions to be put in place.
Controlling these risks and opportunities also allows Colas Environnement to reduce adverse events and enhance the desirable effects of its activities.
These elements make it possible to set performance objectives that are relevant to the context of the company and to put in place the means necessary to achieve these objectives.
Continuous improvement
Colas Environnement carries out permanent and sustainable action plans to improve these processes, by strengthening assets and good practices that generate value and by eliminating dysfunctions.
Colas Environnement reassesses its integrated practices and questions its processes continuously in order to make the company evolve in a sustainable manner. The objective of this approach is to boost performance at all levels of the organization, to capitalize on corporate know-how, to reduce costs, to improve the efficiency, productivity and profitability of the company.
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The ACT business project
Act & Commit Together
In 2020, CSR became an ambitious and demanding business project called ACT, for Act & Commit Together, around Colas Environnement's 8 CSR commitments to its stakeholders.
For nearly 20 years, a social responsibility approach integrating the main challenges of sustainable development has been initiated, and wherever we are located, the men and women of Colas Environnement already participate in multiple local initiatives.
Today, ACT must make it possible to better coordinate, share and communicate on these actions in a concrete and transparent way with objectives and indicators to measure the progress made.
Governance
The CSR Department leads and deploys the ACT project. Each of the 8 CSR commitments is led by a project manager who ensures the deployment of its roadmap in collaboration with school heads and CSR correspondents in operational units. Each business unit is then responsible for deploying actions and monitoring their progress.
All Colas Environnement teams are fully mobilized to implement the eight CSR commitments made by the company and the Colas group.
Certifications
With solid certifications, we affirm our commitment to operational and environmental excellence.
Certified MASE (Business Safety Improvement Manual) since 2010 for our commitment to safety, we have also successfully maintained the triple ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certifications since the year 2000, making Colas Environnement the first company to be triple-certified in all sectors combined, covering quality, environmental management, and health and safety at work.
Obtaining the LNE POLLUTED SITES AND SOILS certification for areas B (engineering of rehabilitation works) and domain C (execution of soil rehabilitation works) of the NF X 31-620 standard strengthens our position among the leaders in the depollution of polluted sites and soils. These accreditations are a testament to our ongoing commitment to high standards and our ability to provide highly qualified pollution control solutions.
Colas Environnement was also awarded a platinum medal in terms of CSR by ECOVADIS, a global leader in business assessment and sustainability. This result places Colas Environnement in the top 1% of companies “providing reclamation activities and other waste treatment services”.
Memberships
Colas Environnement is one of the active members of several leading organizations in the environmental field, thus consolidating its commitment and proactive role in initiatives that promote sustainable development.
These affiliations include:
- the UPDS (Union of professionals in the depollution of sites): Colas Environnement is one of the founding members of this organization;
- Axelera, dedicated to sustainable innovation,
- Soltena, focused on the energy and ecological transition
- the UCIE (Union of Environmental Consultants and Engineers) to strengthen the sectoral network,
- EA eco company for the promotion of respectful practices.
Professional Equality Index M/F 2024
Detail and Level of Result
In companies with at least 50 employees, the employer must calculate, each year, indicators relating to the pay gap between women and men.
As of 1 March 2025, for the year 2024, the level of result obtained, with respect to the indicators referred to in article D.1142-2 of the Labor Code, is:
73/100 points
(62/ 85 points on calculable indicators)
This level of result is detailed as follows:
Pay gap indicator: 37/40 points
Individual increase rate gap indicator: 25/35 points
Indicator Percentage of employees who received a raise in the year following their return from maternity leave: Not calculable
Indicator Number of employees of the under-represented sex among the 10 highest paid: 0/10 points
Action plan
To make progress in terms of gender diversity and gender equality, Colas Environnement, as part of its strategy, has strong commitments, particularly in terms of HR development.
The action plan implemented for this purpose is based on several levers:
- Attractiveness: as such, we have set up a partnership with the Elles Bougent association, which encourages high school girls and students to turn to scientific and technical courses. Several of our collaborators are sponsors They are active, and will present their job, their career and share their passion during the various events organized.
- Recruitment and integration: in order to improve the conditions for inclusion, Colas Environnement joined the sTope initiative, to Stop Ordinary Sexism in Business.
- Training and professional development: we are committed to being vigilant about the career path of our female employees and the changes proposed, as well as to ensure that they have the same opportunities for development as their male colleagues. To this end, several training programs are deployed for our female employees, including the Develop your leadership program. Our mandatory training program also includes an online module “Living Diversity Together” for all company managers. It aims to advance our employees on all topics related to Diversity and Inclusion within the company.
- Remuneration: Each year, we pay particular attention during annual pay reviews to individual pay differentials and rates of increase by gender.
- Monitoring of progress: all the indicators of the Gender Equality Index are monitored specifically throughout the year.
- Remuneration: Each year, we pay particular attention during annual pay reviews to individual pay differentials and rates of increase by gender.
- Monitoring of progress: all the indicators of the Gender Equality Index are monitored specifically throughout the year.