Management Responsibility for Social Issues

Operational responsibility for societal issues is divided among the General Counsel, who has oversight over antitrust and corruption issues; the CEO, who has responsibility for public policy development; the Senior Vice President, Administration, who has responsibility for corporate grants and the PotashCorp matching gift program; and plant General Managers, who are responsible for development of community programs in their regions.

Management Processes

PotashCorp uses a variety of processes and procedures to ensure compliance with its societal commitments.

Building awareness, providing training, and monitoring and enforcement are at the core of its procedures to ensure all employees and officers of the company live up to its commitments to prevent corruption and anti-competitive behavior.

The company manages community impacts by working with community representatives to ensure that local benefits flow from employment growth and procurement of goods and services; encouraging employment and local sourcing; implementing a matching gifts program to ensure local communities benefit from corporate and employee donations; dialoguing with communities to identify ways in which PotashCorp can contribute to sustainable local economic growth; and ensuring that community representatives are alerted in a timely way to any plant expansions, closures or temporary shutdowns.