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MAKING PROGRESS THROUGH TRAINING IS POSSIBLE
"I have been working at this site, which manufactures irons and steam systems, for 10 years now.
Until last year, I carried out repair work on assembly lines. When they asked me at the beginning
of 2011 to go on the "Automated production systems operator" training course, I said yes straight away
because I wanted to move on in my career. I studied mechanics, electricity etc. for 6 months. Now I am an
equipment operator in the iron soleplate workshop, which is starting to take on women. I feel really fulfilled in my
work and it makes me want to keep on progressing, maybe towards working in the Quality department."
Christelle Pascallon, Production line operator – Pont-Évêque (France)
More than 1,590 people took part in Groupe SEB University training courses in 2011.
Training at every level
Training, which is essential for skills development, concerns all Groupe SEB employees.
The Groupe SEB University develops high-level programs in management or focussing on professional
skills (sales and marketing, industrial organisation, finance etc.). Several of these have been adapted
by the Supor University, which trained 240 managers in 2011. Each subsidiary develops additional
programs, which are adapted to suit local requirements.
In France, the large-scale training program organised between 2008 and 2011 to increase employability,
which was a priority for primary levels of qualification, involved more than a thousand people.
Moving towards a culture of safety
The initial phase of our Safety program, deployed on an international scale in 2008, laid
the foundations for the Group's policy in this area and involved all industrial and logistical entities in
working towards OHSAS 18001* certification (76% certified by the end of 2011, excluding Imusa and
Asia Fan). Over three years, the accident frequency rate worldwide has dropped from 6.34% to 4.04%.
Today, the Group wants to go even further and create a real culture of safety within its teams, starting
with France where our performance in terms of safety still falls below expectations. This is the objective
of the "Sécuri-SEB" plan, launched at the end of 2011 across all of our French sites. The plan is an
ambitious one - to halve the number of accidents within 3 years. A Steering Committee for Health and
Safety, led by the Group's Director of Industrial Operations, has been set up to decide what steps should
be taken to achieve this objective.
*see glossary p 84
At the Canonsburg (USA) site, the
number of accidents has been
quartered in 3 years.
64 Business and Sustainable Development Report 2011