2012 Activity and sustainable development report - RTE

JOINT SUCCESSSUCCEEDING WITH OUR TEAMS426,100 hof training in 2012, an averageof 48 hours per employee per year.20%of the training effortin 2012 was devotedto health, safety andthe quality of life at work.FocusBIG-HEARTED! /53 hours, 26 minutes,14seconds: after 750 gruellingkilometres between Paris andLes Arcs in Savoie, RTE runnerscompeting in the Course duCœur 2012 finished aheadof 12 other company teams.For four days and four nights,14 athletes from RTE ranin relays to help raise publicawareness of organ donation,a cause that has been supportedby RTE since 2006.A NEW LINE OF WORK CLOTHES HAS BEEN CHOSEN WITH THEHELP OF EMPLOYEES / RTE selected the suppliers of its new rangeof work clothes. The tenders were judged by a panel of operationalemployees on the basis of very technical criteria: they had to be safe,comfortable and practical. All the clothes were examined for their cuts,materials, ease of use and fi nish. The panel did more than just evaluatethe offers; they also made a number of suggestions for improvementsthat will be put into effect: there will be a feminine version of theoveralls, for instance, consisting of a separate jacket and trousers.TO ERR IS HUMAN / Human error isresponsible for the vast majority of accidents.A new training programme now being offered toemployees responsible for dealing with feedbackendeavours to understand these errors better andto analyse them in order to deduce recommendationsfrom them to achieve progress. This programme,which is based on concrete examples, shows howto analyse a sequence of failures and takemeasures to stop them recurring.RTE | IN LINE WITH THE FUTURE59