E3
E3
E3
Project 2020 is the start of a new cycle for our E3 sustainability approach, dedicated to ethics, the environment and energy. There are eight sub-projects, each with the patronage of a Board of Directors member.
Their role is to guide its implementation and monitor progress. Current developments are published on the intranet twice yearly, so that every employee can track the progress achieved or understand the remaining stages of development.
Ethics
Occupational safety
In the future, as in the past, protecting our employees is our top priority. After having already reduced the accident rate by 28 percent between 2009 and 2015, our ambition is now to reduce it by a further 20 percent by 2020. This will be achieved, for example, with driver safety training from ADAC. This includes small tips for everyday life; a recent study has shown that employees who car pool are four times less likely to have an accident on the way to work than those driving alone.
Careers & personal development
On average, each employee at Hager Group receives around 16 hours of training per year. Naturally, this figure is higher for younger members of staff than for those who have already gained a lot of experience in the company. The goal for 2020 is faster careers and therefore more movement up the career ladder.
Diversity
Diversity provides a breath of fresh air and productive friction within the company. Only those who hear new questions can find creative answers. Over the next five years, Hager Group’s diversity work will focus on the promotion of women to management positions. Today there are already 85 women in executive positions from middle management upwards. By 2020 it should be 15 percent more so – taking into account the forecast growth in headcount – around 30 more female executives.
Ethical conduct
Three years ago, Hager Group set out the company’s values and philosophy in its own Code of Ethics. In addition to obeying the law and treating competitors fairly, it also covers complex problems. For example – can I accept a supplier’s invitation to a symposium with a stay in a luxury hotel? Is the gift of a pen tantamount to bribery? Hager Group firmly believes that only those whose actions are moral and trustworthy will benefit in the long term. To apply these principles to the daily lives of employees, around 80 percent of executives are to receive online ethics training by 2020.
Environment
Power consumption
Increasing energy efficiency plays an important role in keeping our ecological footprint as small as possible. By 2020 Hager Group therefore intends to reduce the common energy consumption of all its sites in the world by one tenth as compared to the figures for 2014. After all, power consumption has an immense influence on carbon dioxide emissions – and thus on the ecological footprint of the entire company and its products.
Carbon dioxide emissions
More than a few Hager Group products are produced in one place and assembled in another. If we improve logistics we shorten the journey and thus lower the transport costs per unit. Optimal organisation is an on-going process; this continuous optimisation is even needed to transport goods to consumers. We ask ourselves the questions: do trucks comply with the latest ecological guidelines? Is the load optimally organised? Is running empty avoided? Why? All this counts in the overall balance. Our ambition is to reduce by one tenth our carbon dioxide emissions from transport by 2020.
Energy
Eco-design
Today more and more customers demand energy-efficient products and solutions. Therefore, for example, when planning a new building an architect will calculate its ecological footprint. This calculation also takes into account the energy consumed in producing the components. So if one company produces more energy-efficiently than another, this can be a crucial buying factor. For this reason, Hager Group has created an ‘eco-designed’ label to rate products according to their sustainability. 30 percent of our product portfolio – based on our total product sales – already has such an environmental profile. In addition, we give each newly developed product a ‘product passport’, which means that all Hager Group products will have an individual life cycle assessment. Three quarters of all new products will have an environmental profile by 2020.
Energy efficiency
In addition to the life cycle assessment of individual products, Hager Group offers many solutions that can reduce energy consumption in the home. These include devices for measuring consumption, units for storing electricity or technology for the use of renewable energies. The market has excellent growth prospects. By 2020 we intend to increase our sales of these products by a full 200 percent, and therefore to 130 million Euro.