2007 Interactive Registration Document - Renault

03 EMPLOYEE-RELATIONS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
PERFORMANCE
NUMBER OF DAYS LOST THROUGH OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS: SEVERITY – RENAULT GROUP ✦
0.25
0.20
0.15
0.10
0.05
0.00
Since 2002, the severity of occupational accidents within the Group has
decreased by more than 40%.
Group figures on occupational accidents concern 98.7% of the total
workforce.
The Group’s policy on health and occupational welfare comprises a number
of other facets.
ERGONOMICS
Renault applies a method of ergonomic analysis to its workstations. The third
version of this internally developed system aims to protect the health of
production operators, particularly by reducing musculo-skeletal complaints, and
thus to improve performance. Used in all Renault production plants worldwide,
the method has also been extended to other companies. At the same time,
Renault has developed a simplifi ed safety and ergonomics data sheet to
help unit managers analyze the risks inherent in the workstations for which
they are responsible and to improve working conditions on an ongoing basis.
Good ergonomics involves making sure that the workstations are suited to the
people who work at them (taking particular account of the age of employees).
This involves conducting an ergonomic analysis of workstations, emphasizing
ergonomics in projects (see below), doing away with job positions classed as
“diffi cult” on the ergonomic scale, and improving skills in this area. A plan to
recruit qualifi ed ergonomic specialists has been under way for several years.
For each major industrial project (vehicle replacement, etc.) the project team
now systematically appoints a socio-technical project manager whose role
is to:
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ensure that projects place greater emphasis on ergonomics;
handle questions relating to occupational health and safety as well as to
design ergonomics (new production facilities, product upgrades, etc.);
monitor the quality of the training plan. Each project provides an opportunity
to aim for progress targets set jointly by the engineering departments and
production plants.
Renault plans to extend these initiatives in 2008, to:
continuously improve workstations, to provide training in ergonomics for
managers and to cut the number of job positions ranked as diffi cult through
new projects, particularly at international level;
educate employees, particularly in supporting activities.
HEALTH ✦
Renault is developing a health policy for employees.
Employees undergo regular screening tests, e.g. for cardiovascular diseases.
Renault also organizes information and training campaigns on themes including
ergonomics, smoking, alcohol, drugs, healthy eating, obesity, the dangers of
sunburn and practical information for foreign missions.
Renault is adopting a multi-faceted approach.
The health departments and occupational welfare departments work handin-hand
to maintain a healthy workplace (workstation ratings, environmental
samples, etc.).
Renault set up a stress, anxiety and depression clinic in 1998. At end-2007,
more than 64,000 tests – organized on a voluntary basis – had already
been carried out, leading to action on an individual or collective basis. These
included:
stress-education forums, aimed primarily at managers;
sessions to help the HR function identify people in diffi culty.
In 2007, Renault:
continued to provide post-traumatic stress prevention services to offer
immediate support to employees suffering from psychological shock;
organized training in relaxation;
extended the stress, anxiety and depression clinic to three new sites;
extended the content of the “Medical Intranet” to include new topics, such
as sleep, stress, cardio-vascular diseases, alcohol abuse, nutrition, hygiene,
viral protection measures, etc.;
harmonized its internal public health campaigns.
In 2008 Renault plans to:
educate employees on the subject of alcohol;
modify the stress, anxiety and depression clinic to better target the actions
to be developed for identifi ed at-risk populations;
harmonize key indicators at international level in order to better target global
prevention actions;
repeat its prevention campaigns (sleep, vigilance, addictions: tobacco,
alcohol, etc.).
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