Social and Environmental Sustainability

Investigating the subsurface means working with the environment at all times. Damasco Penna treats ESG in a practical way: the environmental, social and governance dimensions move alongside the field and laboratory operation.

The One Tree programme

One native seedling planted for every borehole or test carried out. It is a simple metric that grows in step with field production and returns to the environment part of what the operation uses.

The choice of native species follows the biome of each work front, favouring local recovery over a generic planting. The programme is part of the company's production indicators, alongside the equivalent metres of drilling and testing.

Environmental in practice

• Environmental site investigation focused on the management of contaminated sites, from characterisation through to monitoring.
• Low volume of investigative waste in methods such as Direct Push, which reduces the material generated in the borehole.
• Controlled waste disposal and sample chain of custody, with full traceability.

Social and people

The social dimension starts inside the operation, in the safety of those who work in the field. The work fronts follow the company's occupational health and safety programme, with a focus on the well-being of the drilling crews.

Governance and compliance

Governance rests on the standardisation of technical procedures and on the quality management system, which supports the company's certifications and the documentation of every service delivered.

Inclusion and diversity

Everything Damasco Penna does and achieves is built by its employees. A plurality of ideas is one of the main strengths for overcoming challenges, and the diversity of the workforce is treated as a quality of the company.

Employees have equal conditions for recognition, always based on performance. The goal is for people of every origin and gender to work together in a fair, healthy and high-performing organisation.

Sustainability guidelines

Sustainability is part of the company's commitment to ethics and responsibility. Its practices follow recognised standards, with targets assessed in the Integrated Management System (IMS). The guidelines include:

• ESG principles integrated into operations.
• Guidelines from the ISO-26.000, ISO-20.400 and ISO-14.064 standards, which are not certifiable but are audited internally.
• Reduction of carbon emissions.
• Sustainable purchasing and contracting.
• Valuing diversity and combating discrimination.
• Promotion of emotional health and well-being.
• Sharing value with society.

These guidelines are brought together in the Sustainability Management Procedure (PR-7).

Sustainable procurement

Purchasing and contracting follow sustainability criteria, aligned with the ISO-20.400 guideline, taking social and environmental performance into account in the relationship with suppliers.

One Tree partnerships

The Atlantic Forest was chosen because it is the biome in which the company operates. Its forests and rivers sustain the climate, the water supply and the life of native species, and today only around 10% of its original area remains. Planting is carried out in partnership with NGOs focused on the recovery of springs.

• Copaíba (copaiba.org.br): in 2021 it planted seedlings in spring reforestation areas in the city of Socorro, São Paulo.
• Zandoná Conservação (zandonaconservacao.com.br): in 2022 it planted native orchid seedlings in an Atlantic Forest reforestation area in the Serra da Cantareira, in the city of São Paulo.

Prototype note: the One Tree programme is to be quantified (seedlings planted, species and areas) once the figures have been validated. No numerical data has been inserted on this page without confirmation.