Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
Nutrition, health
and wellness
Rural development
Water
Environmental
sustainability
Human rights
and compliance
Our
people
Occupational health and safety G4-DMA
Resilience and stress
Personal and team resilience refers to the capacity of
individuals and teams to stay healthy and achieve high levels
of performance in the face of work pressure. In Nestlé, we are
working proactively to enhance our resilience and our physical
and mental health. In July 2015, we launched the Nestlé
Guidance on Stress and Resilience, which is currently being
communicated across our business. We conducted four Skype
meetings explaining the stress and resilience guideline, which
is meant to support local programmes, reaching our Health
and Wellness Champions and safety and health managers.
The new guideline recommends a holistic approach to
reduce the risk of work-related stress for our people, through
methods including communication, education and training,
risk assessment, personal resilience, support for individual
employees (such as employee assistance programmes) and
flexible working.
Wellness
Wellness is an essential aspect of our Group business strategy,
as it relates to the foods, beverages and services that we
develop and produce. We aim to help employees make more
informed decisions to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle,
using the Nestlé Framework for Employee Health.
To help us, we employ occupational health professionals,
nutritionists and rehabilitation experts, and encourage site
champions, HR staff and colleagues to support our wellness
work. Our markets organise a wide variety of initiatives from
counselling, smoking cessation, stress management and
dependent care, to fitness centre affiliations and leisure
activities. Some initiatives are designed to help tackle specific
needs, including health screenings, such as cardiovascular
and diabetes testing, vaccinations, HIV/AIDS prevention
information, and care, and distribution of mosquito bed nets,
to prevent malaria.
Award-winning health and
wellness programme, Greece
Nestlé Hellas received two awards during the Greek HR
Awards 2015, for its NOIAZOMAI (I Care) health and wellness
initiative and the Purina Pets@Work Initiative.
Nestlé Hellas currently has more than 170 participants in
health-related programmes each month, with an increase of
approximately 340% compared to last year. Initiatives include
individualised ergonomic and physiotherapeutic intervention
for treating work-related musculo-skeletal disorders in the
office, mini-seminars on health-related topics, with follow-ups
including free blood tests, and sports activities, such as a
mini-basketball league, a running club that has more than 70
participants, gym classes and table tennis equipment in the
head office.
The Purina Pets@Work Initiative was recognised in the Best
Mental Health Resilience Initiative category, as it is designed to
improve the health of employees by reducing stress and blood
pressure, promoting a healthy work–life balance.
Healthy workplaces in Portugal
Nestlé Portugal has been recognised with the Healthy
Workplaces Award 2015 for its safety, health and wellness
employee initiatives. Activities that were highlighted as part of
the award included its Leadership in Safety & Health
Programmes, VRM-associated with coaching practices,
Wellness in Action, the framework Learn-Feel-Choose and the
high-quality implementation of our Nestlé & I employee survey.
The award was given by the Order of Portuguese Psychologists
and the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations, in
partnership with the European Agency for Safety and Health at
Work, and the Portuguese Authorities for Working Conditions
and Health.
The award was received on behalf of Nestlé Portugal by Marta Henriques (Nestlé
Portugal Safety & Health Manager) and Greg Scilipoti (Nestlé Portugal HR Director)
during the annual Work and Organizational Psychology European conference.
Strategic priority 4: management processes
Communication and training
Communication and training are key enablers to building the
capability of our people, and to winning hearts and minds.
During 2015, we improved safety and health communications
in many markets, to engage our employees and improve levels
of understanding around our management processes.
Methods include the use of webpages, the S&H corporate
website, our ‘Chatter’ groups and ‘Digests’, which is a periodic
email communication circulated to all markets containing a
collection of the most recent safety and health publications on
our corporate website. Sites also celebrate safety days/weeks
and do road shows to engage employees on important topics.
In addition, training is mandatory on topics such as
management of high-hazard tasks, contractor management
and behaviour-based feedback.
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