Nowy Styl Sustainability Report 2018-2019

Integrating several thousand workers from a variety of countries, cultures and backgrounds is not an easy task. Nevertheless, we do undertake a number of activities to both bring our employees closer together and promote a healthy lifestyle. We can also see the effect of the many best practices we have introduced at Nowy Styl. Here are some of them. 4.7 Health and team building We provided individually ordered prescription safety glasses for 854 employees. We continued our professional Advanced First Aid training. Employees who took part in it and passed an exam (35 people in 2018) received Paramedic certificates. Six Rescue Teams were formed following the training, which have been equipped with emergency medical kits and are ready to provide immediate aid in case of emergency. In 2019, we conducted a refresher training for 48 employees. All factories in Poland are covered by layered OHS au­ dits . In 2018–2019, we conducted 416 of them. Their partic- ipants included production heads, foremen, technologists, maintenance and OHS workers and operatives. The audits improve workplace health and safety by strongly engaging employees in caring about common safety. We bring employees from our factories and offices clos- er together by inviting them to a joint, annual Open Doors Day , publishing our corporate magazine LinkUP and shar- ing current news and messages in Polish, English, German and French through the company’s intranet service, avail- able to employees. We bought AED defibrillators , which have been part of the equipment of our offices in Krosno and Cracow, and the Office Inspiration Centre since 2019. Before entering our production facilities, all visitors are informed about potential risks and the rules they should follow during their visit. The policies and procedures are shown in the form of easy-to-watch videos. Employee Suggestions Programme has been operat- ing since 2014. It deals with, among other things, techno- logical and structural improvements, maintenance, but also safety issues. In 2018, there were on average 3.4 sugges- tions per worker, and in 2019 – 3.3 suggestions. As many as 68% of them were immediately implemented or are in the process of implementation. We also run a Near Miss Reporting Programme (ZPW). A total of 770 near misses have been reported since the start of the programme, and 324 in the years covered by this report to help prevent accidents at work. We celebrate 365 days without an accident in all our plants. Best practices 75