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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
COMMITTED TO AND ON BEHALF OF EMPLOYEES
Organization
HR Operations handles the logistics and administrative
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responsibilities relating to payroll, sourcing, mobility and training
Since2009, the Human Resources Department has been programs, mainly through shared service centers designed to
structured around three principal roles to better respond to their optimize efficiency and costs.
missions: Since 2012, the Group has created a more coherent HR Business
HR Business Partner assists managers on a day-to-day basis in
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Partner (HRBP) structure for front offices at a country level: all
setting out their business strategies and in assessing the HRBPs supporting front office businesses report to the Country
human resource requirements needed to meet their business HR. The Group put this structure in place for improved coverage
targets. HR Business Partner also plays a pivotal role in and consistency and for access to a broader local job market.
anticipating skill requirements and employee development, and These HRBPs have a dotted line to their business (line or HR) to
in the management of employee relations; respect and represent what is specific about that business. The
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same model has been applied to Finance Business partners.
HR Solutions creates and develops comprehensive solutions to
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the organization’s strategic challenges in key areas, such as Business Partners remain attached to the relevant Finance and
compensation, benefits, human capital development, training HRSVP/VP or Line Manager for: Supply Chain, R&D, Global
and performance management. Regional teams are leveraged Functions, Lines of business.
to effectively shadow the Group’s globalised operations; Regional roles have not been immediately impacted but will be
reviewed by the Group to see if adaptation is necessary.
Employee health and safety 4.2
Approach
management of PITs, and the safe servicing of equipment, which
has led to consistent, global application of these practices. Many
Schneider Electric holds the health and safety of its employees as of the most serious injuries occurred when an employee was
a core value. The Group’s working philosophy is «one person travelling between work and home. For this action plan, the focus
injured is one person too many». To that end, it continues to build was on reviewing the risks around our sites and communicating
on its well-established health and safety systems and processes, about safe commuting practices. Schneider Electric deployed a
such as its Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) management campaign consisting of communication activities and built an
systems and the Schneider Production System (SPS), to improve internal online training course to help reduce the potential for
upon and consistently apply workplace safety on a global basis. Its commuting incidents.
Global Safety Directives and Employee Handbook set the direction Additional actions for 2014 included:
for the safe manufacture, assembly, and distribution of its
products. Its Safety Mandates are as follows: continuation of the Global Safety Alert program – the system to
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quickly communicate serious events and their associated
safety is everyone’s responsibility;
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corrective actions;
all injuries and occupational illnesses can be prevented;
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launch of Regional Safety Alerts – specific to a region or type of
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management has a responsibility to train all employees to work
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business to quickly communicate serious events and their
safely; associated corrective actions;
working safely is a condition of employment;
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launch of the Global Safety Bulletin – the system to
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preventing safety incidents and injuries contributes to business
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communicate specific key points for each key focus area; it
success. includes statistics and facts in a one-page easy to read format,
shared globally and communicated locally;
Action plans
the first full year of implementation of the Global Safety
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Directives– which define the absolute requirements for 16 of our
In 2014, Schneider Electric based its action plan on hazards and most critical hazards and exposure areas;
employee injuries, focusing on the following areas: launch of the Guidance Documents – a supplement to the
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Global Safety Directives; it offers the user visual details,
employee safety while commuting to and from the workplace;
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descriptions or examples to help with the understanding and
safety practices regarding powered industrial trucks (PITs);
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intent of the Global Safety Directives;
electrical safe work practices with special emphasis on lockout
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launch of the Global Integrated Management System – kickoff
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and tagout of equipment energy sources;and occurred in 2014 with the Asia Pacific region; as a result of the
emergency planning and preparedness at work and at home.
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success achieved, the program will be expanded to include all
The resulting action plans have improved the processes and regions under one certification;
procedures involving job site safety, electrical safety, the
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