Factories urged to adopt CSR in communities

       The Department of Industrial Works has urged industrial factories in its umbrella to adopt its standard of the Corporate Social Responsibility, Department of Industrial Works (CSR-DIW) to enable them to live in harmony with the surrounding communities.
       "We want to see a greater number of factories adopting the standard and we'll send our experts to give them advice on how to adopt it," he added. CSR-DIW focuses on many areas of social responsibility, including law compliance, international standard compliance, promoting participation of stakeholders, accountability, transparency, sustainable development, ethical practice, human-rights protection, and observing diversity.
       The Thai Namthip bottling plant at Rangsit is one of the factories in the process of promoting CSR-DIW.
       Veera Akaraputhiporn, vice president for corporate affairs of Thai Namthip, said the company's plant in Pathum Thani has already complied with the CSR-DIW.
       It is proceeding to have the other plants, including that in Rangsit, to comply with the standard, to be followed by each of those in Khon Kaen, Nakhon Ratchasima, and Hua Mark in Bangkok.