Workplace

To reach our business goals, we strive to ensure a safe, healthy and inclusive workplace for our employees while engaging, training and rewarding them.

Diversity We employ more than 44,800 people and over three quarters of our workforce are employed in emerging and developing countries . The geographic breadth of the business means our workforce is very diverse. Eight nationalities are represented on our Board of Directors and our head office employs 325 people from 35 nationalities.

Development

We aim to attract, motivate and retain talented employees in order to ensure future success. In 2007, we adopted the Leadership Pipeline model , which focuses on leadership development and succession planning.

Health and safety

One of our key priorities is to constantly improve our health and safety performance . We have adopted the occupational health and safety system OHSAS 18001, which is part of our integrated management and auditing systems.

We also conduct intervention programmes that address specific health risks, such as diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria.

Human rights

We uphold the United Nations (UN) Universal Declaration of Human Rights .

All operations are committed to maintaining a positive and inclusive workplace, where all employees are treated with fairness and equality, as stated in our human rights and equality policies .

We have regularly received employer awards since 2006, nominated by both current and prospective employees.

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