Management Approach
Material topic: Health & safety
Importance for Lenzing
- Employee health and wellbeing is a fundamental prerequisite for the Lenzing Group’s long-term success and business growth
- Lenzing is morally, ethically and legally responsible for occupational health and safety, which ensures the wellbeing of Lenzing’s employees, visitors and contractors
Opportunities
- A safe work environment, and supportive health measures for employees enables an engaging and contributive workforce
- Upcoming generations of talent are likely to value purpose, fulfilment and social responsibility more highly than ever before
- Educating, training and motivating team members to behave safely and to care for each other
- Occupational medical services to ensure that employees are fit and well, offering health surveillance to support workplace risk management and employee health screening to support health and wellbeing
- Protecting people based on the belief that every adverse event, injury and occupational illness is preventable
Risks
- Occupational health and safety risks for own employees, visitors and contractors
- Talent attraction and retention
Group guiding principles
- sCore TEN strategy
- HR Strategy
- Policy for Safety, Health and Environment
- ISO 45001:2018 certification
- Global Code of Business Conduct
- Global Supplier Code of Conduct
- Health guiding principle (“House of Health”)
- Life-Saving Rules Group Guideline
Processes and (ongoing) measures
- Lenzing Corporate Action Plan (COVID-19)
- Safety, Health & Environment Action Reporting System
- Management of risk processes
- Regular Global QESH meeting with management review
- Regular meetings of health and safety committees at every production site
- Heartbeat for Safety Program
- IOSH safety training
- Safety Walks and Talks
- Monthly safety webinars
- Provision of health services
- eMotion program with “Moveeffect” app
Objectives
- Global roll-out and implementation of guiding principles to continuously improve group-wide safety and health performance
- Contribution to a high level of health and wellbeing
- Commitment to a sustainable and healthy leadership style
Achievements/activities in the reporting year
- Health Climate Index survey for employees to develop a work climate everybody feels comfortable with
- Health promotion campaigns e.g: Boost your immune system
- “ZUKUNFT SICHERn” (Safe Future) safety project at the Lenzing site
- COVID-19 care measures: offering vaccinations, tests
- 15 million safe man hours without a lost time incident at major construction side in Thailand
- Total recordable frequency rate reaching group target
- Introduction of safety webinars
Responsible
- Managing Board
- VP QESH
- SVP Human Resources
- Senior leadership roles
- Health & safety is a shared responsibility through all layers of the organization
Supporting
- Corporate Communications