Business ethics briefing for Jubail contractors

The Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery Company (SASREF) continues its extensive preparations to host a business ethics awareness symposium for contractors and suppliers in Jubail Industrial City on June 1.
The symposium will gather elite group of expert speakers, legal consultants, industrialists, financiers and economists from the Kingdom and abroad to discuss various professional topics related to business ethics, and anti-fraud and corruption.
The symposium will explore numerous work papers and keynote speeches representing the best practices for raising awareness of the concept of business ethics and professional codes of conduct to suppliers and contractors, and to identify methods of fraud and corruption and ways to address them by presenting the latest researches, laws and regulations that promote the integrity of workers.
Presentations will include a research paper entitled “SASREF’s suppliers code of conduct” to be presented by Mohammed Al-Khaldi, manager of contracts and procurement at SASREF.
The paper will emphasize polices, codes and regulations of business ethics. It will also highlight SASREF’s commitment to the environment, health and safety, as well as ethical business practices referring to bribery, fraud, gifts, gratuities and hospitality.
Further, it will address confidentiality and conflict of interest aspects on SASREF agreements.
Participants include Jim Lamond, VP business development at Shell Overseas Services, Saudi Arabia, who will discuss a work paper entitled “Business ethics and compliance.”
The paper will discuss the experiences of Shell in the concepts of business ethics and focus on its procedures, standards and programs at all levels of the company’s business in various parts of the world.
It will also review the code of conduct in Shell, and its business relations and interests with its clients.
Speakers include Shankar Pareek, operations manager at ANABEEB Co., whose paper entitled “Business ethics and fraud” will focus on clarifying the best and honest practices in the daily work routine, and revealing aspects of fraud that challenge business ethics.