Personnel
The material impacts related to Apetit’s own personnel concern in particular working conditions, equal treatment, and opportunities within the workplace. Occupational health and safety is as a key theme, as factors such as workplace accidents, musculoskeletal disorders, the seasonality of work, and at times a hectic pace of work may undermine employees’ physical and psychological well‑being. On the other hand, preventive occupational health services, proactive workload management, and a healthy work–life balance can support employees’ health, resilience, and motivation. Workplace inclusiveness, fair opportunities for career advancement and training, as well as competitive compensation can also strengthen employee well‑being and their sense of meaningful work.
Apetit’s operating policy, Code of Conduct and personnel strategy guide and support goal-oriented operations related to personnel. Apetit’s Code of Conduct guides operations in all business operations and applies to all Apetit employees. The Code of Conduct covers, among other things, equal treatment, the development of personnel competence and open and engaging interaction as well as occupational safety and well-being. No form of discrimination, threats, harassment or insults is tolerated at the workplace.
Apetit’s objective is that each employee is familiar with the goals of their work and able to make use of their strengths and skills in their job. It is important that Apetit’s employees can work in an encouraging and inspiring work atmosphere with rewarding tasks that they find meaningful.
Well-being and safety at work
Safety at work is one of the key themes of Apetit’s personnel strategy. The objective is to build a work environment and organizational culture that enable smooth, safe, and healthy working practices and support work ability as part of everyday leadership. Apetit Group has defined occupational safety and health processes, according to which it develops a safe working environment and ensures personnels wellbeing and work and functional ability.
The key indicators of occupational safety, the accident frequency rate, the number of occupational accidents, occupational safety observations and sickness absences, are monitored regularly. All occupational accidents and severe near misses in Apetit Group are investigated internally. On the basis of the investigation, actions are proposed to prevent similar situations from occurring in the future. The Group also improves the prevention of accidents through occupational safety observations and assesses work hazards.
At Apetit, the risk of occupational accidents is increased by, for example, cold-storage facilities, high noise level in some places, indoor and outdoor forklift and work machinery traffic, the use of machines and knives, potential slipperiness in production facilities and working with chemicals. Production work also involves repetitive movements that may cause musculoskeletal disorders. Apetit seeks to reduce the risk of accidents and illnesses in a proactive manner, especially through appropriate job-specific instructions and personal protective equipment.
The Säkylä and Pudasjärvi plants have been granted an ISO 45001 occupational safety certificate.