Norway Post can boast one of the best workingenvironment survey results in the industry.
HSE is at the top of the agenda at all management and staff meetings. This has produced results. The Group can point to positive developments in important parameters within the working environment, with lower sick-leave rates, lower rates of incapacity for work and lower H-values (injuries per 1 million working hours). Norway Post has evolved into an organisation driven by achievement, competence and value creation.
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Sick-leave falls
After several years of significant decline the Group's sick-leave continues to fall, from 7.4% in 2008 to 7.3% in 2009. The trend within incapacity rates in the parent company also shows that a long-term focus on HSE and systematic sick-leave follow-up gives results.
Pensions and insurance
Since 1 January 2006 Norway Post has had its defined contribution scheme and disability pension with Vital Insurance ASA.
Following competitive tendering in 2009 Vital was kept as the Group's provider, but the new agreements resulted in annual
cost savings of some MNOK 100. This reduction is primarily due to the positive effects that Norway Post's HSE work has had
on sick-leave and incapacity rates.
Attractive for young employees
Norway Post is increasingly seen as an attractive workplace for young workers. A Universum survey (a survey of final-year
students at colleges and universities) put Norway Post at 38th place in 2009, which is a significant jump from 95th place
in 2000. Norway Post has a well-established 2-year management trainee programme and began a programme for summer trainees
in 2009.
Focus on diversity
Diversity is one of two corporate social responsibility areas on which Norway Post is focused. Today the Group has workers from over 70 countries and is a declared racism-free zone. 19% of all those recruited by the group in 2009 are immigrants or have two foreign parents.