CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
We believe that the responsibility of BERNAS is to be successful and sustainable. In achieving this we aspire to balance the differing interests of our stakeholders. In addition to striving to meet our shareholders demands for a healthy return, BERNAS should act with integrity and ethically in all aspects of the business at all times.

Business Ethics

The Board and the Management have made a clear commitment to ensuring that the Company operates to the highest standards of business ethics and integrity. The principles underlying this are included in the employee handbooks provided to all employees. The handbooks contain clear guidelines, expectations and company policies to all employees.

Enhancing Employee Performance

We are committed to offering our employees a safe and comfortable working environment and we are continuously looking at ways to further improve our relationships with our 1,500 employees nationwide.

We have invested substantially in the current year in providing training of all staff. Our training department runs a wide range of courses for staff at all levels. The Rice Quality Management Workshop, Certified Seed Accreditation Program, and other technical courses and seminars have led to significant on the job training programs designed to further improve efficiency and offered development opportunities for our staff.

BERNAS also spent RM194,000 in 2007 to provide educational workshops and motivational courses aimed to assist children of BERNAS' staff to excel in public examinations. More than 640 participants who were sitting for the UPSR, PMR and SPM examinations this year attended the programs conducted in Kedah, Kelantan, Selangor, Sabah and Sarawak.