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SUPPORTING AND DEVELOPING OUR PEOPLE

Caring for our people, their safety, health and well-being helps us make the world a better home for our colleagues and their families

Every colleague makes a contribution to their success. Each of our colleagues have a responsibility everyday to keep each other safe and well and always speak up if they see anything unsafe. But our success is deeply intertwined with their own health, wellbeing and happiness and we want to support and develop our colleagues so that they can contribute to their best ability.

Sally Rao, Head of HR, Saint-Gobain Professional Services, HR Director, HPS UK & Ireland, Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland

DISCOVER OUR THREE PRIORITY AREAS BELOW:

CARING FOR COLLEAGUES' HEALTH, SAFETY & WELLBEING

CARING FOR COLLEAGUES' HEALTH, SAFETY & WELLBEING

We are also committed to our colleagues' ongoing development and to protecting and improving their long-term physical and mental health and well-being. Like all progressive employers we want to see our colleagues enjoy long, varied and challenging careers, reach their full potential and help them to be productive.

Productive, healthy and well colleagues deliver great service to customers, build stronger teams, make better decisions in meeting customers’ needs and will help us deliver our innovation and digital strategies.

CARING FOR COLLEAGUES' HEALTH, SAFETY & WELLBEING

CARING FOR COLLEAGUES' HEALTH, SAFETY & WELLBEING

We are also committed to our colleagues' ongoing development and to protecting and improving their long-term physical and mental health and well-being. Like all progressive employers we want to see our colleagues enjoy long, varied and challenging careers, reach their full potential and help them to be productive.

Productive, healthy and well colleagues deliver great service to customers, build stronger teams, make better decisions in meeting customers’ needs and will help us deliver our innovation and digital strategies.

SAFETY - OUR ZERO HARM AMBITION

SAFETY - OUR ZERO HARM AMBITION

Safety is our number one priority. No one should be harmed when working or coming into contact with our operations. We care about all of our colleagues and have wide ranging systems and processes in place to protect all colleagues, as well as anyone visiting or coming to our sites.

Our EHS2025 framework sets out how we measure and improve our performance by implementing a range of solutions in the short, medium and longer term.

SAFETY - OUR ZERO HARM AMBITION

SAFETY - OUR ZERO HARM AMBITION

Safety is our number one priority. No one should be harmed when working or coming into contact with our operations. We care about all of our colleagues and have wide ranging systems and processes in place to protect all colleagues, as well as anyone visiting or coming to our sites.

Our EHS2025 framework sets out how we measure and improve our performance by implementing a range of solutions in the short, medium and longer term.

WORKING TO CREATE A DIVERSE ORGANISATION

WORKING TO CREATE A DIVERSE ORGANISATION

We aim to be recognised as an open and engaging organisation where difference is valued, people are able to be their best and collaboration is fostered to benefit ourselves, our customers and our communities.

We believe that working in a diverse business can be more enjoyable, teams can be more innovative, and make better decisions. We know we have a lot of work still to do to be a truly diverse organisation; with our new Diversity & Inclusion group we aim to develop plans that help us improve..

WORKING TO CREATE A DIVERSE ORGANISATION

WORKING TO CREATE A DIVERSE ORGANISATION

We aim to be recognised as an open and engaging organisation where difference is valued, people are able to be their best and collaboration is fostered to benefit ourselves, our customers and our communities.

We believe that working in a diverse business can be more enjoyable, teams can be more innovative, and make better decisions. We know we have a lot of work still to do to be a truly diverse organisation; with our new Diversity & Inclusion group we aim to develop plans that help us improve..

DISCOVER OUR VALUES, PRINCIPLES AND ATTITUDES

DISCOVER OUR VALUES, PRINCIPLES AND ATTITUDES

Saint-Gobain is led by a strong set of values all centred around our Purpose - helping to make the world a better home. They are founded on our Principles of Conduct and Action which, together with our Purpose are the foundation for how we act, make decisions and behaviour towards others. They work alongside our Saint-Gobain Attitudes. To be a part of Saint-Gobain each and every colleague has to be committed to these shared values and attitudes.

DISCOVER OUR VALUES, PRINCIPLES AND ATTITUDES

DISCOVER OUR VALUES, PRINCIPLES AND ATTITUDES

Saint-Gobain is led by a strong set of values all centred around our Purpose - helping to make the world a better home. They are founded on our Principles of Conduct and Action which, together with our Purpose are the foundation for how we act, make decisions and behaviour towards others. They work alongside our Saint-Gobain Attitudes. To be a part of Saint-Gobain each and every colleague has to be committed to these shared values and attitudes.

TOP STORIES ON OUR ACTIONS:

REDUCING ACCIDENTS - KEEPING COLLEAGUES SAFE

Over the long term, we have made considerable progress in reducing accidents in our business. This progress shows our business is becoming safer. Since 2010 our lost time indicator [TF1] was double our current rate and our total recordable incident rate [TF2] is now five times lower now than in 2010.

These improvements have come about by the gradual instilling of a safety culture - where safety is number one. We encourage colleagues to talk about safety everyday and raise anything that could be done differently, safer. 

IT'S OK TO NOT BE OK

In 2017 we ran two pilots of a new learning and development programme based on ‘It’s ok to not be ok’.

The aim of the programme was to focus on mental health awareness for managers. The development programme, which was held with two groups of 30 Managing Directors and Operational Managers across our businesses, was designed to help them identify signs of colleagues who may be suffering from mental health issues. To prepare them for sympathetic conversations about mental health issues and to ensure they are confident in signposting colleagues to the support and services available to help them.

We're now rolling the programme out to more and more colleagues.

HELPING IMPROVE COLLEAGUES HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Our Fit4Life/ Fit4Work health gateway for employees developed in partnership with AXA, provides a valuable resource for our colleagues to improve their health and wellbeing and assess the key health risks they may face.

The 'heath age' calculator helps colleagues to find out ways in which they can improve their 'health age' through simple changes. Since we launched the gateway more than 10,000 self-declarations have been performed and through continued awareness on healthy lifestyles  many key risks for colleagues - Physiological risks, Alcohol Consumption and diet have been reduced.

TEAM CHALLENGES TO IMPROVE WELLBEING

We encourage colleagues to play an active part in local communities and develop sense of team.

The Weber management team underwent a programme of team development focused on health and wellbeing – as part of our Fit2Lead programme. The impact of this programme was the roll-out of a health and wellbeing programme in Weber – with the aim of encouraging colleagues to assess their health age and, ultimately adopt healthier lifestyles. By the end of the year, colleagues in the Weber business had reduced their health age by a collective of 146 years! The winner of the health age competition, Emma, reduced her health age by 13 years. Other colleagues Mark and Louise reduced theirs by 12 years each and a colleague, Katy, discovered an undiagnosed heart condition as a result of her voluntary assessment.

WE'RE COMMITTED TO NET ZERO CARBON BY 2050 - AND MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME.