Sustainability

Our carbon footprint is our key environmental responsibility metric. We operate in an equipment-intensive industry where emissions from machinery, equipment, and vehicles play a prominent role. We systematically monitor the emissions of our equipment and have begun the electrification of our fleet.

In 2023, we reported our indirect emissions (Scope 3) for the first time, covering our entire value chain’s carbon footprint. Our most significant sources of indirect emissions are equipment emissions from subcontracting, emissions from business travel, and emissions caused by the transportation of our purchases.

2023 is also the first year when we reported the amount of mixed waste from our own operations, which we continuously aim to reduce through sorting. In our cleaning services operations, environmentally friendly cleaning solutions also help our customers reduce their environmental impact.

For most of our roles, formal education is not required, and a key part of our social responsibility is to help people from diverse backgrounds enter working life. Each year, we employ young people, students, older individuals and the long-term unemployed — all of whom we aim to support in finding meaningful opportunities for self-fulfilment through work.

Our main indicators of staff wellbeing include job satisfaction, sickness absence, and workplace accidents or near misses. We promote our employees’ physical and mental wellbeing through various support measures, such as leadership training, opportunities for professional development, extended occupational health services, a cycle-to-work scheme, and benefits for recreational activities and massage.

We also embrace our community responsibility by supporting hobby and leisure activities for children and young people under the age of 18. Our employees are encouraged to propose causes that are important to them, and selected initiatives receive funding through our club sponsorship programme, which is run twice a year.

ll our group companies are committed to combating corruption, bribery, tax evasion, and the shadow economy. We are also committed to the UN Global Compact initiative and thus embrace, support, and implement its core principles on human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption within our sphere of influence. We take unethical conduct seriously, which is why we have implemented an ethical whistleblowing channel for reporting suspected misconduct. By pursuing our growth and profitability strategy, we aim to ensure stable employment and a positive societal impact well into the future.

Our goal is for every one of our employees to be able to return home safely each day. Safety is a basic value to us, but also an important business driver. Personnel wellbeing and sick leaves have a direct impact on our operational performance. This is another reason why it is important for us to ensure a fair, safe, healthy and well led working environment, based on the shared responsibility of the employer and the employee.

Pursuing zero accidents is our most central safety target. By routinely following the development and root causes of accidents and near misses, we can measure and develop our safety culture. We measure our development also through regular personnel well-being surveys.

We are committed to the United Nations (UN) Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. The Global Compact is a voluntary initiative for businesses that are dedicated to promoting responsible practices. By joining, companies commit to upholding ten universal principles relating to human rights, labour standards, environmental protection and anti-corruption, as well as to advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).