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Employees’ health and safety is a key priority at Stora Enso. Our goal is to provide an accident-free and inclusive workplace. A company-wide safety culture means that everyone is responsible for making every workday healthy and safe.
Stora Enso’s health and safety principles are defined in the company’s Health and Safety Policy and Safety Commitment statement. They define the objectives for our safety management as well as our governance model for managing health and safety topics in practice and integrating them into annual planning and reporting.
Safety management at Stora Enso is based on international standards but our processes go beyond these requirements. Our units use the ISO 45001 occupational health and safety (OHS) management system. In 2020, 85% of our employees were covered by one of these third-party audited management systems.
During the pandemic period, Stora Enso has closely monitored the Covid-19 situation globally and taken action to secure the health and safety of its employees and others working on its premises.
Responsibility for implementing safety tools, procedures, and programmes in our units lie with line management, supported by local staff, and OHS professionals.
The overall safety and industrial hygiene are aligned and managed by the group Safety function and occupational health including wellbeing are managed by our group Human Resources function. Stora Enso’s Safety Steering Group directs strategic long-term planning at the group level and oversees the work of the Safety Management Team, which develops and aligns group-wide safety principles and programmes. Group-wide safety cooperation ensures aligning company-wide requirements for key safety management processes and high risk activities as well as sharing learnings and best practices.
Stora Enso is committed to increasing the sharing of learnings within the company and to prevent recurrence of safety related events.
“Staying safe at work and being able to return safely home is not just a nice credo, it embodies our core values and our commitment to providing a working environment and conditions free from any kind of harm.”
Annica Bresky, CEO
Stora Enso encourages employees and contractors to identify and report unsafe situations or actions. To further increase and harmonise safety reporting, Stora Enso is implementing a Group-wide digital tool for submitting safety observations, safety notifications, and near-misses in our operations and office locations.
Stora Enso reports incidents and accidents using the international Occupational Health and Safety (OHSA) definitions when reporting Total Recordable Incident (TRI) and Lost-Time Incident (LTI) rates. Stora Enso uses the Total Recordable Incident (TRI) rate as its main key performance indicator (KPI) as it provides a comprehensive overview of safety performance by including less severe accidents. At the end of 2021, our TRI rate was 6.2 (6.1 in 2020).
The yearly TRI & LTI rates:
Stora Enso also monitors contractor accidents in separate categories for on-site accidents and logistics incidents.
Regarding occupational health, Stora Enso also measures illness-related absenteeism with a focus on encouraging units to invest in proactive health management.
For Stora Enso, developing trust with employees is critical when it comes to safety issues and discussing safety incidents. The ‘Fair and Just’ process, provides a transparent way to manage the outcome of safety investigations. It also serves as a tool to facilitate the review and discussion of safety incidents and other unsafe behavior. The aim of ‘Fair and Just’ is to create a blame-free working environment and a learning organisation to ensure that all our employees are treated in a fair and just manner.
Since 2019, Stora Enso has arranged a Group-wide Safety Week with a yearly changing theme that highlights the importance of safety. The aim is to engage management, employees, and contractors to accelerate safety and safety culture. Safety Week results in a range of activities across divisions, functions and, offices, such as safety webinars and training, as well as health and wellbeing activities.
To follow up on the performance and development in safety, Stora Enso has a safety audit programme to verify the implementation of safety standards and tools. The programme promotes a common approach, content, and methodology for safety audits with a focus on common areas of concern such as the “Log out – Tag out” procedure, risk assessments, permits to work, and the operating of heavy machinery.
To follow up on the performance and development in safety, Stora Enso has a safety audit programme to verify the implementation of safety standards and tools. The programme promotes a common approach, content, and methodology for safety audits with a focus on common areas of concern such as the “Log out – Tag out” procedure, risk assessments, permits to work, and the operating of heavy machinery.
We believe that the foundation for physical and mental health and wellbeing in the workplace is based on people management, organisation of work, and an inclusive work environment that promotes both physical and mental health. All these factors impact the health and wellbeing, including stress levels of our employees, and need to be addressed to create wellbeing in the organisation. We follow wellbeing in our employee survey that focuses on inclusion and organisational factors impacting health and wellbeing in the workplace.
Stora Enso’s comprehensive approach to safety covers everyone working in and visiting our operations, including our employees, contractors, suppliers, and on-site visitors. Stora Enso also monitors the number of safety incidents among on-site, logistics, and forestry contractors. We have also introduced consistent visitor inductions, that include safety information, for all our units.
We encourage everyone to give feedback and provide ideas on how to further improve safety. Additionally, we promote safety among our contractors and suppliers through a dedicated “Safety Trail” e-learning.
As a part of the aligned group-wide contracting process, Stora Enso asks its suppliers to sign in the Supplier Code of Conduct. It sets suppliers’ requirements on safety management, safety measurement, and performance monitoring. By the end of Q4/21, Supplier Code of Conduct coverage was 96%. Signing in has been a part of the contract process since 2006. with “By Q1/22 Supplier Code of Conduct coverage was 96%. Signing in has been a part of the contract process since 2006.“
