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
At the end of 2024, Halton employed a total of 1,942 people, up from 1,834 at the start of the year. There was a slight increase in headcount across Finland, Europe, Asia, and Africa, but the most substantial growth came from the Americas. The overall employee turnover rate for 2024 is 14.0%, down from 18.0% in the previous year.
Read more about our employee statistics from our Sustainability Report.
Health and safety at Halton
Halton is dedicated to continually enhancing health and safety management while fostering a culture of safety worldwide. We implement comprehensive policies, continuous improvement actions, and targeted future objectives. For tracking the progress, our KPIs include safety observations, accident counts, lost time incident frequency (LTIF), and the sickness absence rate. Over the past year, we have improved health and safety management.
Read more about our health and safety management from our Sustainability Report.
Haltonians’ engagement
As part of the Halton Strategy, Mission 500, we have a strategic theme: Increasing Employee Engagement. An ongoing practice was established to conduct surveys, analyse the results, and take action at three levels: teams, units and selected themes globally. This three-level practice continues on an annual basis. At Halton, the trend in employee engagement has remained positive, with scores improving to 3.9 from 3.8 in 2023, surpassing the industry standard of 3.8.
Read more about Haltonians’ engagement from our Sustainability Report.
Diversity, equity and inclusion
The HVAC industry has long been characterised by male dominance. Statistics also reveal male dominance when examing diversity across Halton overall. At Halton, the representation of women is approximately 20%. This varies internationally, with figures ranging from 13% in the Americas to 29% in Finland. When looking at the age structure of Haltionians, half of the employees are in the age group of 30-50 years old, while 20% are in the age group of under 30 years old and 29% are in the age group of over 50 years old.
Read more about our diversity, equity, and inclusion 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. In 2024, Halton introduced a new eLearning platform as a strategic initiative to enhance foundational development.
Learn more about our training policies and programmes from our Sustainability Report.