Our core values and beliefs
With 51,000 colleagues in more than 70 countries, we are proud of our diversity of thought and experience. Together with our culture and strong leadership, we know we can continue to be a global leader and a place where people can build a career to be proud of.
Our values and beliefs are part of our identity. The core values are connected to our Leadership dimensions, which connect leadership to our strategy and core values, and describe how we lead. Our three core values are:
- Empowerment – We have trust in people
- Innovation – We have the courage to change
- Integrity – We stand up for what is right
Our 2025 targets focus on our culture and safety
Our ambition and vision is to be an injury-free workplace. We believe that we can get there by maintaining our health and safety policies and processes, and to continue developing our safety culture.
We make the world a safer and more open place, and that means starting with our own people. Building and nurturing diverse teams is the right thing to do. It’s also the smart thing to do, especially for a global leader. We have already made progress in making our workplace more inclusive, but we also know there is more work to do.
Our targets for 2025 are:
- –33% Injury rate (number of injuries per million hours worked)
- –33% Injury lost day rate (number of lost days related to injuries per million hours worked)
- 30% Gender diversity (% of females in management positions)
Our Code of Conduct is our behavior blueprint
We expect all our people, from junior interns to our CEO, to follow it. It extends to contractors, and we also have a version especially for our suppliers. Our policies and principles are based on rigorous global standards, and we publish our code on our website to hold ourselves accountable to it.
Together we are making work safer every day
We have a wide-ranging health and safety policy that includes training, preventing injuries and looking out for ourselves and each other. We have already held workshops with 30,000 of our people to help them learn more about managing risks and taking both individual and collective responsibility for working safely. The next phase of workshops, called “Together we are safe” will launch soon.
We are building and nurturing more diverse teams
We want people from all kinds of backgrounds to work for ASSA ABLOY. So we set specific objectives to make sure we recruit widely and give people the right opportunities to succeed.
We encourage and work towards a workplace where people of all races, ethnicities, and nationalities feel welcome at work as their authentic selves. Where our teams include all ages, genders, sexual orientations and religions, and our colleagues with disabilities have safe and equal access. We see, and want our people to see, that differences in education, personalities, skill sets, experiences, and knowledge bases are an advantage. We have already made progress in making our workplace more inclusive, but we also know there is more work to do.
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