CONSUMERS AND END-USERS

Consumers and industrial end-users subject to material impact include those in industries such as construction, mining, and defence. These sectors rely on our products, services and measurement devices for critical operations, and we prioritize their safety, efficiency, and sustainability.

Potential negative impacts for consumers and end-users primarily involve hazardous situations associated or unproper usage of explosives causing some environmental damages. To mitigate these risks, we implement strict safety guidelines, provide comprehensive user training, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Our modern and widely adopted charging technology enhances the safety and efficiency of product usage. By continuously investing in R&D, we aim to improve usability and minimize environmental impact while ensuring operational safety for end-users.

FORCIT adheres to all relevant industry standards and regulatory frameworks to mitigate risks and provide end-users with the necessary training and documentation for safe product handling.

FORCIT's commitment to safety, ethics and end-user responsibility

The HSEQ (Environment, Health, Safety, and Quality) organization and employee committees ensure that FORCIT’s policies align with collective agreements, national legislation, and internationally recognized standards.

Our Code of Conduct and ethical policies extend beyond internal operations and also apply to end-users. FORCIT will evaluate the relevance and benefits of these policies in relation to end-users by 2026.

We are committed to delivering high-quality, safe, and reliable products and services. Sales are limited exclusively to customers who hold official authorization purchase these products. All products are subject to a track-and-trace system, and users are trained in safe handling procedures.

The HSEQ organization monitors corrective actions and remedial measures arising from audits and interactions with authorities and other stakeholders.

End-user safety is one of focus areas under the ISO 9001 quality management standard, and our operations are continuously monitored and improved according to its framework. While FORCIT does not currently have a dedicated action plan for end-user-specific material sustainability issues, our comprehensive safety and product development initiatives are aimed at improving safety at all levels.

Given the highly regulated nature of explosives, all related activities must comply with applicable legislation. FORCIT Group promotes safe use and best practices through user training, technical support, and our customer information magazine.

The use of explosives is governed by stringent regulations to ensure safety and compliance. In general, authorities are controlling blasters and drivers physical and mental health regularly and people with a physical disability are not allowed to work with explosives. License for blasting work is possible to obtain only if persons nationality enables background security declaration.

Authorities are controlling the licenses of end users and analyze the general needs for regulation development. FORCIT follows the regulation. FORCIT's products (material, data, testing, quality, packaging) is audited regularly by European level controlling body (BAM), which gives approval for selling the product. Via that audit, the BAM controls and ensures the products are fulfilling the physical and chemical parameters mentioned in standards appointed to explosives.

All produced or imported products have instructions for safe handling and these documents are updated. This responsibility is managed by product managers and process performance and quality is followed in ISO 9001 audits. FORCIT Sustainability team follows changes in chemical legislation and inform if changes in classifications occur.

Development projects FORCIT research and consider risks arising from impacts on end users in very accurate level before the decisions of moving to testing phase or announcing the product for sale.

All Safety Data Sheets (SDS) are available on webpages and can be downloaded in end-users’ own language. Technical support is giving advises of good practices free of charge. FORCIT tests different materials and protective gear to improve occupational safety and shares good practices in the customer magazine. What comes to services at the site, all vehicles are regularly inspected and controlled in daily basis. Employees are trained well before using the trucks or doing the blasting services. When the purchasing department proposes new raw materials, the product manager assesses their impact on end-users before testing and decision-making. The aim is to ensure safer products. Product managers oversee each product and imported explosive, serving as the key resource for impact management, safety authority, and safe use guidance.

Each product or imported explosives are managed by product manager, which is a resource for impact management and official person in authority issues and questions of safe use.

All the actions and product development is based on minimizing affects to environment, communities, end-users and we always want to find a safer solutions and practices. We reward employees for safety initiatives and those can be made also for end-users’ point of view. We train customers organizations to use explosives in sensitive areas and challenging blasting environment, storing of explosives and control they have the latest versions of SDSs and other end-users’ information. We participate in rescue training of the customer sites. We train customers organizations to safe handling and storing of explosives and control they have the latest versions of SDSs and other end-users’ information. Meetings with customers are regularly starting with mutual safety share.

The company will evaluate the need for target setting in its strategy work.