Quality and Food Safety Policy

Güres Group, which has national and international quality certificates to conduct local and global trade related to its fields of activity, attaches maximum importance to The Implementation Of quality standards. Our 'Güres Group Total Quality Management' policy is carried out in cooperation and coordination from management to employees, from quality units to suppliers.
With this understanding;

• To ensure complete customer satisfaction by complying with customer requirements and meeting their expectations,
• To maintain good relations with customers and suppliers,
• To produce in fully hygienic conditions by taking precautions in all matters that may endanger quality and food safety in line with ISO 9001: 2015, FSSC 22000, and Halal Food standards,
• To be a customer-oriented company that adopts the principle of fulfilling legal requirements and producing food trustily following national and international legislation,
• To provide biosafety rules sustainably,
• To ensure continuous improvement in occupational health and safety issues,
• To ensure the ongoing improvement and sustainability of the company's operation and quality management system,
• To expand TPM and Lean Manufacturing system activities throughout the company and to implement waste prevention methods, which are the essence of this system,
• Identifying risks across the company and turning them into opportunities,
• To work devotedly and to follow the goals for the realization of the determined aims,
• Paying attention to the use of recycled materials by ensuring the efficient use of energy and natural resources in our products and all our processes,
• To comply with environmental laws, regulations, and other relevant provisions, to be sensitive to the environment, and to protect the environment,
• To ensure the assignment of qualified personnel who are researchers, dynamic, following technological developments, and suitable for cooperation and teamwork,
• To ensure the use of the most technologically advanced machines,
• Assuring an efficient understanding of the policy within the organization,
• To achieve the company's goals with the awareness of its duties and responsibilities towards the society we live in, We undertake with the assurance of Güres Group.

Information Security Policy

As Güres Tavukçuluk A.Ş and its employees, to manage all kinds of risks regarding our information security, business continuity, and information assets;

• To consider our corporate data and information (personal information, customer data, supplier data, etc.) valuable and critical, to fulfill the obligations required by laws and standards related to information security,
• To maintain uninterrupted information technology services used in the realization of our corporate activities and to provide the necessary infrastructure to ensure that information can only having accessed by authorized persons, and to take security measures,
• Establishing, documenting, and continuously improving the Information Security Management System, which is a requirement of the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard,
• To follow the legal regulations and conditions related to information security,
• To carry out the necessary pieces of training to increase the awareness of information security,
• To ensure that outsourced service providers fulfill the needs and requirements of the information security system,
• To define the information security requirements of third parties, customers, and suppliers and to ensure that they comply with the information security management system,
• We undertake to determine the information security standards of the group companies, audit them regularly, and ensure compliance.

Animal Health Policy

Justification; Our Animal Health policy includes health practices in compliance with the legislation, adhering to the principles of preventive medicine within the framework of current biosafety practices. The rationale for this policy is to make a risk assessment among negative external factors to ensure the health of farm animals, which are a part of the food chain, and to protect human health in egg production.
Strategy: 'Prevention is cheaper than cure' As Güres Group, our animal production strategy; is to produce healthy breeders, chicks,  chickens, and eggs for human consumption.
Biosecurity: To keep our facilities away from diseases;

• Controlling the entrance and exit of vehicles and equipment, disinfecting them, and ensuring their entrance
• Taking a shower at the entry and exit of the farm, changing clothes, and using hand and foot disinfectants,
• Complying with the clean zone versus dirty zone differentiation and disinfection rules at the entrance of the poultry house
• Recording and limiting visitor entries,
• Surrounding the business borders with wire fences to protect them from wild animals and threats,
• pest and rodent control,
• Controlled removal, processing, and conversion of chicken manure (Biomass Energy Production) provided.

Herd Management and Health; In fully automatic, sheltered coops for the herds to maintain their lives healthily, stress factors are minimized, and optimum heat, light, and ventilation conditions are provided. In hatching, breeding, and production facilities, daily performance values, feed, and water consumption of herds are monitored and recorded. Business cleaning and disinfection are done regularly and, their effectiveness is measured by laboratory controls.
Feeding; Necessary microbiological and toxicological analyses are to be performed during the preparation of feeding programs in line with the needs of the animals and the acceptance of raw materials used in feed production and before use.
 Drinking Water Quality; Regular chemical and microbiological analyses of drinking water are to be carried out to ensure that the herds consume healthy water. It is applied according to basic principles to strengthen the immune system and the resistance of animals against diseases. The immunity status of flocks is to be measured with laboratory tests at routine intervals, and vaccination is to be repeated when necessary.

IMPLEMENTING UNITS; All employees of Güres Group are obliged to fulfill all requirements in animal health policies.
RESPONSIBLE UNITS:

• Feed mill
• Quality management
• Senior management

One Health Policy

Why Health Policy?

To deliver our healthy products to the consumer in all aspects, according to consumer expectations. We understand from healthy products in every aspect that being a sustainable organization is suitable for human health and sensitive to the environment, and being a sustainable organization gives importance to animal health and welfare.
Lean Production, Food Safety, and Quality Management: Güres Group, which has all the national and international quality certificates required for local and global trade in its fields of activity, attaches maximum importance to the implementation of quality standards. Our Güres Group Total Quality Management policy, from management to employees from the quality units to the suppliers, in full cooperation and coordination, is supported by lean production practices and is constantly improved, and its sustainability is being ensured. To provide international food standards with researchers and dynamic employees who follow world technology.
Animal Health; Our animal health policy is to produce animal health and welfare within the framework of current biosafety standards.
Consumer: To ensure complete customer satisfaction by complying with customer requirements and meeting their expectations.
To maintain good relations with customers and suppliers. To be a customer-oriented company that adopts the principle of fulfilling legal requirements and producing following food safety by national and international legislation.
Environment; to expand TPM and Lean Manufacturing system activities throughout the company and to implement waste prevention methods, which are the essence of this system. To take care of using recycled materials by ensuring the efficient use of energy and natural resources in our products and all our processes. To comply with environmental laws, regulations, and other relevant provisions, to be sensitive to the environment, and to protect the environment.
With the awareness of duty and responsibility towards the society we live in, to achieve the company's goals…

Social Compliance Policy

GÜRES Group considers the creation and maintenance of a fair working environment for its employees as one of its most important priorities.
It aims to increase the success, development, and loyalty of the employees by creating a fair, respectful, healthy, and safe working environment in compliance with all relevant laws and regulations.

Application basics

• Company practices comply with all applicable laws and regulations regarding employment and working life.
• Company employees also fulfill all legal requirements within the scope of their activities and act following legal regulations.
• Güres Group human resources policies and practices; ensure that all employment-related procedures, but not limited to recruitment, placement, promotion-transfer-rotation, termination of employment, dismissal, recall, transfer, leave, wage, additional payment, social rights, and training have been carried out without discrimination.
• It is unacceptable to discriminate among employees within the organization based on language, race, color, gender, political opinion, belief, religion, sect, age, physical disability, pregnancy, lactating, and similar reasons.
• A positive and harmonious working environment that supports cooperation is created in the company, and conflict environments are prevented, enabling people with different beliefs, thoughts, and opinions to work in harmony.
• It does not allow unjustified interference with the work performance of any person or supervisor, or intimidation, deterrent, hostile or disturbing.
• Güres Group does not employ forced and compulsory labor and child labor. (According to the law, child workers who are under the age of 15 must not be employed, the age is confirmed from the personnel ID photocopy before the personnel is hired as specified in the HR procedure)
• The working conditions of the employees in the particular situation group (such as pregnant, young employees, and disabled employees) are provided under the laws.
• Pregnant employees cannot work more than 7.5 hours/day overtime, and night work is not allowed.
• For young employees, a working order not exceeding 40 hours per week is provided, overtime and night work are not allowed. It is not used in dangerous works.
• The private life and personal spaces of the employees are respected.
• Communications between persons cannot be violated by non-parties.
• Even if it is recorded following the law, it is prohibited to unlawfully transfer/disseminate/capture personal data to others.
• Personal information of the person arising from the nature of the business relationship and that may be required in the continuation of the workplaces are not used for purposes other than their purposes and are not shared with third parties without the consent of the persons.
• The private and family life of all employees is respected.
• In addition to all kinds of immunities of the employees, physical, sexual, and emotional immunities are also taken into consideration.
• Violating the immunity of employees in any way through physical, sexual, or emotional harassment in the workplace or any place where they are due to work is against the law and ethical rules.
• This crime is not tolerated by the Company in any way.
• The purpose of this application is to ensure that employees work in a work environment where their physical, sexual, and emotional immunity is protected.
• Violation of one's bodily immunity with sexual behavior or sexual harassment without physical contact is defined as sexual harassment. According to this:
•  Any behavior that can be considered within this definition is prohibited. In addition, those who make a complaint or report any harassment or who act negatively against those who assist during the investigation are not tolerated in the same way.
•   No employee can demand privileged practices, show any privileges to anyone, or be subjected to a special practice due to a different gender, religion, language, or race. It is unacceptable to make concessions by making use of differences such as gender, religion, language, and race.
• It is ensured that the physical working environment and conditions of the workplace are healthy and safe for all employees.
• In customer-supplier relations, gifts, and bribes are not given or received, and money laundering is not made.
• All employees, suppliers, and customers have the freedom to report complaints about product quality and safety.
• Employees, customers, and suppliers; They report abuse, policy violations, product safety, and all other complaints as follows:
• They use Wish-complaint-suggestion boxes within the business.

They can establish all kinds of communication via our website www.gures.com.tr, via Facebook/Twitter, gures@gures.com.tr e-mail address, phone number 0236 398 70 06, fax number 0236 398 75 57

Occupational Safety Policy

Güres considers people as the most valuable asset in all its activities and adopts as its primary business goal to minimize all kinds of losses that may occur and to continuously improve it by creating a safer and healthier working environment. Necessary measures are to be taken to prevent possible accidents arising from process safety; Awareness of our employees, subcontractors, suppliers, visitors, and official authorities is increased through training, awareness-raising, and communication activities.

• Working safely is a prerequisite for working at Güres. Therefore, Güres asks all its employees to work safely.
• All managers within Güres are responsible for the occupational health and safety of all employees, subcontractors, and visitors under their management or control.
• From the design stage of the products to the consumption process;
• All raw materials, packaging materials, machinery, and equipment used are evaluated in terms of chemical, biological, and physical hazards and passed through an approval process.
• Our organization; Full compliance with international and national regulations and Güres global standards is ensured.
• To reach the goal of zero work accidents and occupational disease;
• Risks arising from our operations, new products, processes, and engineering changes are identified and evaluated, and these risks are eliminated or brought to an acceptable level through studies.
• During our activities or likely to result in injury;
• All incidents and accidents are examined, and necessary improvements are made to prevent their recurrence.
• In the field of Occupational Health and Safety, Basic Performance Indicators are measured and reported. We act responsibly and responsibly towards occupational health and safety issues, information, and public sensitivities that are on the agenda, and by working together with all our stakeholders, the development of health and safety culture and the development of standards are ensured.
• All of our employees, subcontractors, and visitors in our fields of activity are provided with the necessary skills and competencies related to occupational health and safety through information and training programs, and they are provided to increase their awareness.
• By creating Occupational Health and Safety Management Programs, important occupational health and safety risks are revealed and targets are set for continuous improvement.