Sustainability / Social
Safeguarding health and safety
By creating risk awareness, optimising processes, engaging with employees and tracking
performance over multiple categories, Jotun continuously strengthens operational standards and
processes, building a strong health and safety culture.
Jotun operates 39 factories all over the world. These fastmoving
industrial environments represent a risk to personnel,
property and the environment. Jotun recognises that to
achieve long-term, sustainable results, the company must not
only focus on compliance with regulations and procedures,
but also build a strong safety culture through risk awareness.
STRUCTURED SAFETY
The primary goal of Jotun’s HSEQ strategy is to continuously
improve safety and quality performance across the company’s
value chain, with a zero-tolerance approach to injuries, fires
and spills. Most of this work is achieved through Jotun’s
HSEQ Management System, which provides the structure
to track and manage 15 elements related to health, safety,
environment and product quality management. Jotun
expands and updates the system regularly to make sure
it meets or exceeds local or international standards. For
example, in 2019, Jotun added a new HSEQ element that
applies to external workers involved in the construction or
expansion of Jotun facilities. In 2021, Jotun launched a global
fire safety project, focused on electrical fires, fire detection,
fire-fighting systems, fire segregation and managing risk
related to static electricity.
Every Jotun employee contributes to making their workplace
safer through the ongoing “I Care” initiative. Each Jotun
company runs three separate “I Care” projects every year. One
project is mandated centrally, leaving local manufacturing
sites to initiate the other two, based on site-specific risk
factors. The outcomes from “I Care” campaigns are carefully
measured, and improvements are rewarded both individually
and at a team level.
VERIFYING COMPLIANCE
In Jotun’s efforts to continuously and proactively identify
risks and maintain optimal manufacturing performance,
Jotun documents issues, record incidents, implements
improvements and shares best practices. Jotun schedules
periodic HSEQ audits to verify compliance. In 2021, Jotun
completed a total of nine HSEQ audits of Jotun factories.
In addition, Jotun performed three audits on ongoing
construction projects in Dubai, Egypt and Qatar. The
combination of an HSEQ structure, employee engagement
and periodic audits ensure that Jotun can continue to make
improvements and strengthen its health and safety culture.
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