Sherwood Resorts & Hotels supports and monitors internationally recognized human rights in its operations. While continuing and enhancing its activities, it prioritizes the health, well-being of its employees, and the preservation of the environment. It manages activities related to Occupational Health and Safety, employee rights, and environmental matters in accordance with national legal requirements and other obligations.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels values its employees and the contributions they make. In the recruitment and employment processes (placement, promotion, social benefits, etc.), we provide equal opportunities to everyone regardless of nationality, race, religion, belief, age, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, disability, without discrimination based on experience, skill level, and merit criteria. In this regard, actions are taken in accordance with established criteria and principles in all areas of corporate social responsibility, including human resources and human investment projects, stakeholder culture, company vision, education support activities, and practices that promote culture and art.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels respects the privacy rights and reputation of our employees concerning their personal information. The obligation to protect the confidentiality of personal information of our staff continues even when the employee's relationship with the company is terminated, and it is not shared with anyone, including family members and friends, unless legally required.

Our company is committed to providing a working environment characterized by high levels of trust, where people can bring out their best work in peace and order, treating each other fairly and with respect. We absolutely do not tolerate unlawful harassment, humiliation, intimidation, threats, or discrimination.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels strictly prohibits all forms of forced labor.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels provides the necessary facilities for employees to easily express their suggestions and complaints.

Suggestion and complaint boxes are placed in accessible locations for everyone, and these boxes are regularly checked and evaluated. Our success relies on the contributions of each of our employees.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels accepts every individual as a child according to every law which can be applied to a child, excluding the case of precocious puberty.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels accepts that every child has the inherent right to life. Sherwood Resorts & Hotels shows maximum potential effort for the survival and development of a child.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels recognizes the right of every child who has the ability to form his/her opinions to express his concerns, appropriate for his/her age or maturity level, freely on every subject provided that necessary attention is given. For that purpose, the opportunity to be listened directly or by an appropriate post or a representative, in line with the rules of national law procedure, is especially given to the child in case of any legal proceeding or administrative proceeding.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels respects a child’s freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. Parents or, if needed, legal guardians respect their rights and duties on the subject of guiding the child in the use of his/her rights compatible with the development of his/her abilities. One’s freedom of expressing his religion or beliefs, provided it is envisaged and needed by law, can only be restricted by public security or order, health, morality, or for protecting others’ fundamental rights and freedoms.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels is aware that any intervention cannot be done arbitrarily or unfairly to the child’s private life, residence, and communication, and an attack cannot be carried out on his honour or reputation. A child has the right to be protected by law for these kinds of interventions or attacks.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels accepts that every child has the right to a sufficient level of living which provides physical, psychological, mental, moral, and social development.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels accepts that every child has the right to education.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels absorbs that every child guest or outside of our establishment who is a member of a religious or linguistic minority or a member of another origin cannot be bereft of utilization of his/her culture with other members of his/her minority group, the right to believe or practice his/her own religion, and use his/her own language.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels recognizes a child’s right to rest, recreation, play, and participate in activities suitable to his/her age and participate in cultural and artistic life. It recognizes and encourages a child’s right to fully participate in cultural and artistic life with respect and gives countenance to providing suitable and equal opportunities on the subjects of art and culture.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels accepts a child’s right to have protection from economic exploitation and any kind of hazardous occupation or being employed in a way that may cause harm to his/her physical, psychological, mental, moral, and social development.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels takes every possible precaution, including legal, social, and educational characteristics in an appropriate procedure described in international treaties, with the intention of protecting children from illegal use of drugs and psychotropic substances and preventing the use of children for these substances’ illegal production and trafficking.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels gives assurance of protecting every child from every kind of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse. For that purpose, it takes every necessary precaution on an international level and bilateral or multilateral relations for the purpose of preventing children from being deceived or forced into an illegal sexual activity and preventing exploitation of children by making them participate in an illegal sexual activity or prostitution, being used in pornographic shows and materials.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels protects children from any exploitation which may cause harm to his/her wellbeing in any way.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels embraces that no child can be subjected to any torture or other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment and punishment.

Sherwood Resorts & Hotels is a part of children’s rights and the child’s rights protection policy for all employees to provide initial orientation training and executive agencies when given with child abuse in periodic education and cultural establishments, which requires the necessity to report to the appropriate provincial police officers.

As Sherwood Resorts & Hotels we adopt an Occupational Health and Safety Policy that is based on respect for people and environment in which they live. Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is our first priority in all areas we conduct activities and our motto “Stay healthy stay in your job” states this understanding. Everyone is responsible with doing what needed to be done under his/ her authority in an attempt to ensure a safe and healthy work environment. One of our main objectives is to protect all our employees and environment we live in against potential risks of our sector.

To this end, we promise that we will meet below mentioned commitments as our OHS policy:

• Taking all measures in accordance with OHS legislations in force and other requirements concerning OHS in an effort to ensure health and safety of our employees, subcontractors, visitors and our out-of-office staff, providing tools and personal protective equipment and using them if necessary in workplace and its affiliates,
• Anticipating and eliminating insecure situation and actions that may cause occupational accidents and diseases and also eliminating potential accident risks in workplace and its affiliates through an efficient risk assessment,
• Identifying risks that may cause occupational accidents and diseases in workplace, ensuring health, safety and social welfare of all employees, visitors, subcontractors and minimizing all kinds of possible material and nonmaterial future losses for them and their families,
• Providing occupational health and safety trainings to our employees and raising their awareness of occupational health and safety,
• Providing abiding by the rules we established concerning occupational health and security by subcontractors providing service in workplace and guests,
• Setting our institution as an example with regard to OHS implementations, in the presence of registered institutions, chambers of industry and associations,
• Anticipating potential circumstances which may be encountered in the future from today and reviewing our continuous improvement and position bearing in mind industrial world’s development,
• Maintaining continuity of our OHS Management System which was established and currently ongoing in this direction.

Sherwood Resorts &Hotels, under the leadership of its top management, is aware that in the acquiring of quality product and service, the topics of ISG, Environment and Food Safety are inseparable parts:

• To continue its works with its employees and suppliers in a team spirit,
• To enhance employee competence with effective trainings,
• To provide personnel contributions for the improvement of system by lateral-vertical communication,
• To exercise due diligence with a preventive approach in all our business processes, within the frame of conditions we are inherently subject to by national and international legislation and administrative conditions, to prevent environmental and occupational health-safety risks we may cause,
• To prepare and present world’s and traditional Turkish Cuisine’s distinguished tastes with our trained personnel in line with our guests’ expectations, provided in accordance with hygienic measures and with ultimate safety,
• To comprehend guests’ expectations ideally with provided effective quality management system and give a service even exceeding expectations.

We identify our impacts on environment so as to preserve environment and meet the requirements of a sustainable tourism and then we bring our adverse impacts, possible threats and wastes under control. We endeavour to minimize use of natural resources, energy consumption and air, water and soil pollution.

We comply with published law, regulation, legislation and rules related to environment, occupational health safety and human rights and we meet all the requirements.

We take necessary precautions and bring them into life in order that we can protect our guests and employees against potential injuries or diseases and create good working conditions while carrying out our activities.

We try to make our guests, suppliers; subcontractors and competent authorities internalize our environmental consciousness and social responsibilities as well as our employees.

We cooperate with local governments, suppliers and nongovernmental organizations and contribute to building environmental protection and social responsibility projects.

We take all measures to increase employment, to preserve and enrich natural life in our region.

We also release all of activities we conduct to the public.

Environment is a physical, biologic, social, economic and cultural surrounding in which living things maintain their relationships during their lives and interact with each other. Environmental issues stem from human behaviour. Therefore, it is of great importance for human to behave properly when it comes to environment, act responsibly and be trained accordingly.

As SHERWOOD RESORTS & HOTELS we aim to show an approach to protect environment starting with our facility and to contribute in related studies.

As SHERWOOD RESORTS & HOTELS our target is to preserve and improve environment and provide a healthier and safer environment for future generations, humanity and a sustainable tourism movement.

Our team is aware of the fact that we can achieve a sustainable growth which is core of our activities only through sustainable environment and energy principles.

Our goals are; preserving environment and keeping environmental impacts under control by respecting all the environmental law and regulations so as to ensure continuity, periodically improving our environmental performance by reducing environmental impacts and setting our environmental aims and objectives periodically to meet the requirements of our environmental awareness, actualizing and reviewing them on a regular basis and bringing all the productive activities of consciousness into life through “An Operational Excellence in Business” so as to leave a clean and liveable environment for future generations.

We will hand down a clean and healthy environment to future generations, for whom we hold it in trust,

We will exercise due diligence to minimize, recycle and reuse wastes arising from operation of facility,

We will consistently improve and enhance our environment and energy performance,

We will guide our suppliers, who provide product and service for us in the field of environment and will strive to raise environmental awareness,

We will take all the environmental impacts into consideration during operation of facility and will preserve and enlarge green areas, live in harmony with nature, preserve air, water and natural resources,

We will meet our obligations in line with the environmental legislation; enhance our environmental management system in order that it can improve customer satisfaction and environmental performance,

We will reduce raw material consumption using appropriate technologies that will minimize environmental damage within the bounds of possibility and will protect natural resources,

We will enable integrity of health, safety and environment by reducing possible emergency risks within the framework of occupational health and safety rules,

We will encourage participation of our employees and customers by raising their awareness of environmental responsibilities,

WE WILL HAND DOWN A LIVEABLE WORLD TO NEXT GENERATIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE LIFE AND TOURISM.