Compliance & Ethics in Action
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Communicating Fluor's standards with 41,000 global employees in the many countries where the company operates often presents language and cultural challenges. Because Fluor understands that the Fluor Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the Code) cannot possibly cover every subject area or situation, the company strives to ensure that employees know the right questions to ask, the right experts to consult, and the right way to make decisions.

Employee Training
Experts agree that training is one of the most critical components for the success of any compliance and ethics program. Fluor provides a variety of training programs to ensure its employees understand and observe the company's stringent ethical standards. More than 25,000 employees worldwide have completed Fluor's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics training. The company's targeted live, interactive program includes anti-corruption training for sales and marketing, project management, field operations, procurement, subcontractors, and legal personnel; fair disclosure training for spokespersons and executive management, and export control and anti-boycott training for procurement and logistics personnel.

Employee Certification
All employees are required to review the Code and certify their acceptance every year, a practice which requires employees to disclose ethical concerns or situations that could be interpreted as presenting a conflict of interest.

Reporting Potential Violations
Fluor has an open door policy that encourages employees to raise issues and concerns with supervisors and company leadership.

Compliance & Ethics Hotline
Fluor employees, clients, suppliers, subcontractors, and partners may call the global, toll-free Compliance & Ethics Hotline to ask Code questions or anonymously report suspected misconduct.

Fluor provides guidance in clear language that reduces the chance of multiple interpretations. This includes the following, from the Fluor Code of Business and Conduct and Ethics:

No person or document can tell you what is right or wrong in every business situation. If you are ever in doubt, ask yourself:

  • Is this legal? Have I checked with the company's subject matter expert?
  • Would it conflict with any of the Fluor's core values: safety, integrity, teamwork or excellence?
  • Am I involving the right people?
  • How would I feel telling my family or children about my decision?
  • If I choose to act on this situation, would my decision by fair?
  • How would I feel reading about my choice in a newspaper, or explaining my choice to a judge or jury?
  • If you know it's wrong, don't do it.
  • If in doubt, ASK.
  • Keep asking until you get an answer.
  • Don't ignore what you believe to be illegal or unethical conduct.
  • Set an example for others.
  • Take responsibility by DOING THE RIGHT THING. For managers, this includes taking  responsibility for having the proper and necessary policies, procedures and an environment to DO THE RIGHT THING.