2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
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2 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT<br />
COMMITTED TO AND ON BEHALF OF EMPLOYEES<br />
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2 Employee health and safety<br />
In the area of employee health, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> takes reference<br />
from the highest level. Its policy is built around the World Health<br />
Organisation’s defi nition “Health is a state of complete physical,<br />
mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease<br />
or infi rmity”. The health and safety of its employees and of external<br />
collaborators therefore is a concept that <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> is<br />
committed to promoting within the Group. Its goal is to become a<br />
model of health and safety in the work place.<br />
The Group’s policies and main commitments are defined at<br />
global level and are adapted by each Country President to local<br />
requirements in order to take account of diverse needs and<br />
implement individual resources.<br />
Its goals in this area are as follows:<br />
• promote good physical and mental health throughout the<br />
professional career of each employee;<br />
• improve the quality of life in the work place;<br />
• anticipate events that could have an impact on the health of the<br />
employees.<br />
In safety, it aims to continue working to ensure the best protection of<br />
its employees through the prevention of accident and the detection<br />
of risks.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> Approach<br />
Safety<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> provides its employees with safety information<br />
and tools to ensure a safe, clean and healthy working environment<br />
notably through safety training and the implementation of safety<br />
practices both at a professional and personal level.<br />
Health<br />
One way that <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> ensures the best physical and<br />
mental health of its employees is through the prevention of illnesses<br />
that could hamper their efficiency, creativity and well being.<br />
Increasingly ergonomic work stations within its production system,<br />
for example, are an ongoing measure to prevent muscular and bone<br />
problems. In France, the Group participates in programs to promote<br />
the employment and integration of disabled persons.<br />
Emphasis is placed on anticipating professional risks and on<br />
integrating preventive measures into company policies and projects<br />
to enhance the overall quality of life. For example, the Group already<br />
has in place a system for measuring employee satisfaction in which<br />
all employees worldwide can participate (its OneVoice survey, see<br />
2010 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC<br />
page 75). In France, measures are in place to assess and prevent<br />
working situations that carry psychosocial risks.<br />
Lastly, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> has integrated a Health section into its<br />
Emergency Plan and Business Continuity Plan in order to ensure<br />
the highest degree of responsiveness. It also has a plan in place for<br />
the prevention of H1N1 swine fl u.<br />
Main Plans of Action 2010<br />
Safety<br />
As part of the Planet & Society Barometer, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> set<br />
a goal for 2009-2011 to reduce the annual rate of accidents in the<br />
work place by 10%.<br />
End-2010, the accident rate had fallen by 44% in relation to the<br />
average rate in 2009. It currently stands at 2.51 (see page 90).<br />
The number of day’s work lost due to accident fell by 25% in 2010<br />
in relation to 2009, while the target had been 10%. In 2009 it had<br />
fallen by 32% in relation to 2008.<br />
As part of the One program, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> set up three regional<br />
organisations in 2010 (incorporating North America, EMEAS Europe,<br />
Middle East, Africa, South America and Asia Pacifi c) which will report<br />
to the Industral Operation Department. Their mission is to support<br />
the Group’s plans in three areas, Safety, Environment and Property.<br />
In 2010 the Group focused on building the new organisation in all<br />
three regions, on strengthening the management’s commitment to<br />
safety, on creating teams responsible for coordinating and steering<br />
projects and on encouraging more employees to get actively involved<br />
in improving overall safety. The organisation also pursued risk<br />
assessment, training, internal audits and ongoing deployment at the<br />
plants of a security management system based an OHSAS 18001.<br />
In 2011, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> will pursue all of the activities that it began<br />
in 2010 and will also implement the MIR (Medical Incidence Rate),<br />
a work-based program related to long-term treatments. The Group<br />
plans to focus on serious injuries in order to identify and prevent the<br />
dangers that lead to these injuries and the resulting loss of working<br />
days.<br />
Health<br />
Employee health is treated at country level in accordance with local<br />
regulations. <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> has not set out a Group plan in this<br />
domain under its One program.