Social Responsibility at Halton
Our Halton employees, known as Haltonians, are the heart of our group – everything in our business starts from our engaged personnel. Our most important focus is securing our employees’ well-being, strengthening their competence and knowledge, and keeping motivation levels high. Our People Policy and our Health and Safety Policy manage this. Halton invests a lot in promoting health, safety, and well-being at work.
Through our product solutions, we’re enabling healthy and comfortable indoor environments for people. We develop solutions that decrease the number of hazardous particles in indoor air and create high-quality indoor climate conditions.
Halton values
Our values reflect our sense of right and wrong. They help us to make choices in our private life and in our daily work. Halton’s company values are the building blocks of the company’s culture, and they guide us in the right direction in all of our actions. This is equally true for small daily decisions and for major strategic questions.
At Halton, we have five values that guide our daily work. These values represent the foundational commitments to our stakeholders and state the principles of Halton’s vision and mission. The values are customer focus, trust and ethics, teamwork, continuous learning, and positive attitude. Read more about Our Five Values
Watch The Halton Way video and learn about Halton’s values.
Number of employees and employee turnover
In 2023, the employee number trend within our Group showed relative stability. By the close of the year, our workforce encompassed 1,834 individuals spread across the continents of Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. When contrasted with the preceding year, there was a marginal uptick in personnel for Europe and America, parity in Africa, and a decrease in numbers for Finland and Asia. Our comprehensive employee turnover rate in the same year stood at 18.0 per cent.
Read more about our workforce structure from our Sustainability Report.
Health and safety at Halton
At Halton, we prioritise people’s safety by implementing practices that prevent work-related injuries, keep sick individuals away from the workplace, and ensure proper recovery to prevent the spread of illness. In 2023, the number of reported sick days remained lower than in 2022. The number of sick days accounted for 2.5 per cent of all theoretical working hours, compared to 3.3 per cent the previous year. The trend in sick days showed a consistent decrease across all geographical areas of our business units.
The trend in workplace injuries from 2021 to 2022 showed improvement, as the amount of time lost decreased due to lessons learnt from significant incidents. In 2022, our acquisition of Nelbud, a services company, naturally influenced the overall numbers. In 2023, the overall number of injuries and respective lost time remained at the same level as in 2022. Regular quality audits in our local units will ensure that we continue to adhere to and improve our practices, striving to minimise injuries and lost time as much as possible to provide a secure environment for all.
Read more about our health and safety practices from our Sustainability Report.
Haltonians’ engagement
Employee engagement stands as a fundamental priority at our Halton Group and is evidenced through our daily operations, special initiatives and projects. Our outcomes indicate that our employees’ engagement levels consistently surpass the global industry average. Specifically in 2023, Halton’s engagement score stood at 3.8.
In line with the Halton Strategy, Mission 500, we have introduced a strategic theme, ‘Increasing Employee Engagement’, which encompasses actions at the individual, team and organisational levels.
Read more about Haltonians’ engagement from our Sustainability Report.
Diversity, equity and inclusion
The HVAC sector has traditionally exhibited a male-dominated composition, a pattern that is mirrored in our company’s workforce demographics. Nevertheless, at Halton we are committed to addressing this imbalance by actively striving to achieve gender parity within our organisation. We place emphasis on fostering diversity in our recruitment processes, particularly for pivotal roles. Moreover, we acknowledge the imperative of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives to ensure a comprehensive understanding and optimal utilisation of the benefits associated with diversity.
Read more about our DEI policies and actions from our Sustainability Report.
Training programmes
Training is centred on the development of expertise in indoor air quality, serving as the fundamental focus for the training initiatives of each of our business units. Tailored training programmes are designed to address the unique needs and challenges of individual business units. Foundational knowledge and recurring topics are covered through eLearning. In addition, we have the Halton Future Leadership Development programme in place, which identifies potential future leaders across all business sectors. The programme aims to cultivate future leaders, facilitate inter-organisational networking, and test innovative concepts for the advancement of the Halton Group.
Learn more about our training policies and programmes from our Sustainability Report.