The health and wellbeing of our employees is vital. It is important in its own right, but it is also crucial in reducing absenteeism, sustaining employee morale and commitment, and ensuring the quality and consistency of our production.
We have a number of policies and good practices in place across the company which are designed to ensure that we are aware of any potential health risks, and take action to prevent or address any such identified risks. They include general physical health, occupational illnesses, hygiene at our sites, and drug and alcohol abuse. We also share knowledge and new ideas actively across the group, and through the joint global health and safety committee.
As with safety, we take a proactive approach to health – one that goes beyond prevention to the positive promotion of wellbeing, both at home and at work.
We ran our first Health Week in 2010 at a number of pilot sites. Following the success of this activity the Group Management Board decided to roll it out it across the whole group for the first time in 2011, and in 2012 Health Week was renamed the Health Awareness Programme, to underline our belief that health awareness is important during each week of the year, not just one week a year. This programme is now an annual event.
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