Health and safety at AAK Working together for risk prevention involves everyone at AAK. We are all part of the solution. The improvements in AAK’s health and safety performance over the last five years are already a collective achievement that we can all take pride in and build upon. Labour rights 28 | AAK Responsible Growth We are now in the process of developing a new strategy that will build on the many strengths we have, but will also recognise the many changes that continue to take place around us and that present new challenges for our health and safety systems as a whole. Our initial approach is to develop and launch a safety campaign during 2013. We will renew momentum to further improve our health and safety performance We are responding to a wider range of risks: in our smaller, recently acquired business units; in new technologies developed; and in traditional, longstanding sources of risk We are exploring new and better ways of engaging our workforce in all workplaces of all shapes and sizes, using the know ledge that we have gained from the past. A fully involved workforce will enable us to achieve a better health and safety performance We have a common, shared set of KPIs throughout our organisation We believe everyone has a role in bringing about improvements in health and safety performance. We all need to work together towards a common set of objectives. For this to become a reality, each stakeholder within our health and safety system must become more involved and better understand their personal role. This in turn will make it easier for them to assume their responsibilities and perform the necessary actions effectively. Our objectives are: a. To reinforce the promotion of worker involvement in health and safety b. To specifically target key issues and to focus on these to bring down our incident rate c. To adapt and customise our approaches to our different sectors, to achieve the best results by optimising our resources in areas that are most relevant to them To develop our campaign, we brought together all our health and safety and site managers in February 2013 for three days at our operations conference, held in Malmö. One important goal of the conference was to launch a safety campaign in March 2013, with a number of key initiatives for improving awareness and performance. Since then, our safety managers around the globe have participated in a monthly review to monitor performance, share ideas and develop best practices. Labour rights issues are governed by our CSR Policy, which applies to all our sites. Among other things, the policy states our view on child labour and young workers, on forced labour, and on freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining. Forty-seven percent of our employees are covered by collective bargaining. There were no strikes during 2012. We do not have a Group policy that stipulates a common, cross-group notice period for significant operational changes. Instead, we abide by national legislation and local agreements based on collective bargaining, combined with what is outlined in the CSR Policy: “We give fair notice to employees of significant changes that could substantially affect them.” Giving staff equal and fair treatment is another focus area of our CSR Policy. During 2012, there were three official complaints of discrimination at our production site in Louisville, Kentucky. The complaints were filed with the U.S. EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). Two complaints were resolved to all parties’ satisfaction. One complaint remains open with no recent activity. We do not report our ratio of basic salary for men relative to women, since interpretation of the data would not give a true picture. On average, AAK pays more in salary to male employees than to female employees, not because the basic salary for male employees is higher, but because male employees generally have jobs with a higher salary. For the same job, the salary for male and female employees is the same. David Smith Vice President AarhusKarlshamn AB and President European Supply Chain
AAK Responsible Growth 2012-2013 - UK
To see the actual publication please follow the link above