Work Environment and Health

Work environment and health are key priorities for PostNord, since healthy employees enjoy a better quality of life as individuals as well as providing cost savings and increased productivity for the business.

Work environment and health 

Using the group’s collective experience as a foundation for establishing a group-wide approach towards health and work environment is both a challenge and an opportunity with enormous potential.

In Denmark, operations have long focused on improving the work environment, an important area since many of the group’s employees work in a physically strenuous environment. The Swedish business is a pioneer in health promotion. In Norway some teams have such high levels of healthy work presence that the Prime Minister expressed interest in the personnel policies.  

PostNord systematically registers and follows up accidents and occurrences that result in injury. The work environment certificate awarded to the Danish operations in late 2009, after several years of intense effort, pertains to all postal operations in the country and has  contributed to better processes and quality throughout the operations.

Efforts continued in 2010 to improve work environment and employee health. In Denmark a one-year campaign was begun in the fall to reduce the number of slip and fall accidents, one of the most common accidents in the production area.

Several ergonomic projects were initiated in order to use technology and new work methods more effectively to reduce work-related injuries. The group’s cooperation with health motivational experts continued in Sweden, and a sick leave reduction project in Denmark investigated possibilities for a similar effort.  

In 2011 the group noticed a freezed level of sick leave after some years improvement. The group monitors results in order to preclude the development of a possible negative trend. The objective for 2013 is to have a level of sick leave that is not above 4,5%.

After years of steady improvement, PostNord’s sick leave leveled out at 5% in December 2011. The company will monitor future outcomes and take appropriate action to alleviate any sign of deterioration.