Goal #2 - Work Safety
Every employee has the right to feel safe at work. The most common incidents in our workplaces include slips, trips, falls, falls from heights, contact with sharp edges, and improper working positions. In order to reduce the risks for these or any other work-related incident, we have robust and systematic routines in place.
Goal: Our workplace safety is industry-leading, and we are perceived as a role model.
Constantly updating safety equipment and ensuring compliance with safety routines are essential to create a safe working environment, but we see that what really makes a difference is our persistent efforts to foster a business culture and attitudes that prioritise safety.
Our approach to building a safety culture is to increase knowledge and risk awareness among our employees. In 2024, we held our third annual Safety Week. We used statistics to identify the most common types of safety incidents and created videos highlighting specific risks connected to these incidents, with information on how to avoid them.
Our group common Safety Board cover areas and key performance indicators measured on own employees such as Lost Time Injury Frequency (LTIF) and Total Recordable Injury Frequency (TRIF), report progress on decided safety activities for the group. This reporting year, the Lost Time Injury Frequency (LTIF) was 6.9 (6.6) and Total Recordable Injury Frequency (TRIF) 13.9 (13.2) for the Ragn-Sells Group.
In 2025, we will continue to develop and implement safety indicators, particularly those tied to our updated double materiality analysis.
Hazards are defined and documented in instructions, identified locally after investigations, and subsequently reported centrally. In 2024, 132 (104) injuries were reported, of which fatality 0 (1), lost time cases 30 (28), medical treatment cases 30 (29), permanent disability cases 0 (0), restricted work cases 0 (5), and first aid cases 72 (41).
"By fostering attitudes that prioritise safety, our employees are more committed to safety routines and we see a decline in incidents.”
Vidar Svenning Olsen, CEO of Ragn-Sells in Norway