Safe and better ways of working

Latest updates from 2022  

• Our total number of injuries was 78, an increase of four compared to last year. The three most common were injuries to upper body extremities (42 %), lower body extremities (26 %), and the head (10 %). As part of our efforts to improve safety, dedicated reduction plans have been implemented in 2022. 
  
    

• We launched global safety improvement campaigns to raise awareness of the importance of safety and provide advice on how to improve safety standards.  
  
  
• We strengthened our ‘Global bullying, discrimination, and harassment policy’ by detailing our commitment, clearly communicating employee rights, and refining processes to handle reported cases.
  
  
• We launched several initiatives to focus on our employees’ health, including MOVE, a health initiative to encourage movement; Howdy, an app for monitoring mental well-being and musculoskeletal health; and Insight Timer, a well-being app with guided meditations tailored to different well-being needs, courses, and workshops.
  
  
• We held our first annual global Well-being Week to encourage employees to focus on their personal sustainability.
  
  
• We saw an increase of employees reporting stress in our annual engagement survey from 12.4 % to 13.5 %. To address this, we
  
  • enhanced and expanded our stress mitigation initiative, ensuring that tools are readily available to all teams and leaders with reported high stress levels 
  • continued our stress management committee, which partners with leaders and teams with reported high stress levels to help identify root causes 
  • continued to develop action plans to mitigate stress and provide support.
    
    
• We launched Ørsted’s ‘Global food guidelines’ and the ‘One Planet Plate’ campaign to support our people in making sustainable, nutritious food choices at work.  
  
  
• Our employee satisfaction survey showed a satisfaction score of 76 out of 100. While this is a solid score compared to the wider benchmark group, it did drop slightly for the second year in a row, and we missed our top 10 % target. We’re working to identify the causes of this and address them appropriately. 
  
  

What’s next?  

We’ll work to maintain our strong health and safety performance as we grow, developing further resources, tools, and services to care for our colleagues’ health and well-being holistically. This includes a continued focus on stress prevention through leadership training and providing internal and external resources to all employees.  


Finally, we’ll continue to explore new ways of working to enable our colleagues to live fulfilling lives at work and outside of work, such as increased flexible working conditions, employee benefits, expectations of what defines a working week, and improved office space facilities.