World Day for Safety and Health at Work:
4 questions for Laurence Acerbo, Responsible Development Director
On this World Day for Safety and Health at Work, Laurence Acerbo, Director of Responsible Development, looks back on our commitments to our employees and customers in the area of prevention, in order to safeguard their safety. Find out more about our actions to reduce exposure to occupational hazards, in order to cut our accident and illness figures: safety flashes, behavioral safety visits, talks or role-playing exercises on hazards, or the "Piloter Onet Prévention" (POP) day. In 2020, these awareness-raising initiatives enabled us to reduce our frequency rate by 17% compared with 2019.
- wednesday, april 28, 2021
- - Onet
4 questions for Laurence Acerbo, Responsible Development Director
In a few words, what is Onet's prevention culture ?
All Group employees are made aware of the need to take responsibility for their own safety and that of others. It is thanks to this active participation on a daily basis that our safety culture is strengthened. This collective mobilization is the primary lever for guaranteeing safe and reliable environments for our employees and customers alike.
What does this commitment to health and safety mean?
Our common objective, for all our businesses, is to reduce as far as possible our employees' exposure to various risks. These include both business-specific risks and risks common to all our businesses, such as psychosocial risks, road risks and pandemic-related risks.
As part of our Group's roadmap, accident reduction targets have been set for all our businesses and incorporated into our managers' variable compensation...
We want our employees to be able to carry out their tasks in the best possible conditions.
Our business sectors track additional indicators specific to their own business, to monitor business risks, particularly in terms of the preventive measures implemented.
We also organize an annual national prevention day (POP Day).
What actions are you taking within the Group?
Priority prevention actions range from adapting work methods (materials, products, processes, customer environment, etc.) to raising awareness and training to change behavior.
We can give the example of the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), which require us to work as much on work situations with customers as on the equipment used and the correct gestures to acquire.
We can also illustrate the reduction of chemical risks with our Biogistic solution, which replaces conventional cleaning products in the tertiary sector with non-hazardous, biotechnology-derived, fragrance-free products.
We provide our employees with a wide range of tools to raise their safety awareness on a regular basis.
In addition to safety flashes or alert sheets distributed via various channels (videos, posters, newsletters, flyers in pay slips, SMS campaigns, etc.), we have, for example, pre-employment health and safety knowledge tests, safety induction processes by local managers, behavioral safety visits to our customers' sites (a tool for observing good practices and dangerous situations in terms of safety, based on dialogue and exchange), safety talks and, finally, systematic post-accident feedback interviews by the manager.
We also provide regular training on regulatory aspects and on risk prevention specific to our service activities. We offer a range of courses (face-to-face, e-learning, training modules available via our Onet Learn application, etc.) to adapt to all safety training situations.
Results in terms of workplace safety?
Down 17% on 2019, that's the reduction in our Group frequency rate, which is exceptional given this pandemic year.
However, this sharp drop can also be explained by the fact that our employees have shown solidarity and increased vigilance. Communication and implementation of the Covid-19 package of preventive measures have certainly contributed to greater awareness of other occupational hazards.
It's important to do everything we can to maintain this momentum in the future, so as to safeguard the health and safety of our employees.
- To find out more about our actions in terms of health and safety in the workplace, see our Responsible Development report.
#We all share responsibility for our safety