We are focused on developing a working environment that actively promotes the health, safety, and wellbeing of all our employees. We have begun understanding how we can meaningfully work with our supply chain to ensure our values are mirrored across all actors. Social
us to focus on the adherence and attendance of relevant processes and trainings, as well as realistic safety indicators. At V.Group, everything starts with training. It is the pillar of advancing our health and safety culture. To provide the highest quality of service to our clients, V.Group offers a multitude of tailored further and advanced learning courses to our employs that go beyond basic training requirements. Creating learning opportunities and helping our employees reach their potential is beneficial for all parties. As part of our ongoing commitment to invest in the development of our talent, V.Group has partnered with Skillsoft, a global leader in online learning. All shore colleagues will have access to this platform, which provides online learning across a selected range of business and personal competences such as leadership, commercial, financial, project management, customer service and wellness. This significant investment by V.Group will play a vital part in achieving our strategic objectives. In 2021, we published our V.Group Safety Climate Assessment Report, in collaboration with Lloyd’s Register. We commissioned this report to evaluate links between safety climate perceptions and performance, identifying areas of improvement to help keep our workers safe. Results were overarchingly positive, with communication, learning and leadership all scoring very highly. We identified opportunities for improvement including managing shoreside workloads differently to permit more time to be taken to get the job done safely, plus working to identify any further barriers and enablers in reporting near misses. We are optimistic that the changes we are making as a result of this work will result in a safer workplace for our people. Photo: Cabildo Bentalan, MT Cabo Kamui
We frequently engage with all colleagues on the issues that matter to them, helping create a better understanding of how to identify and manage the most important issues. We believe this approach is the best way to achieve our mission to be the safest, most highly skilled operation in the industry. In 2021, COVID-19 continued to impact our operations, with constantly changing laws across multiple jurisdictions making a uniform approach nigh on impossible. Despite this, we achieved improvements across several key metrics, including a 42% drop in marine incidents and a 96% drop in those marine incidents that were classified as serious. This improvement is a credit to our colleagues and their admirable engagement with numerous safety trainings and initiatives, subsequently executing their work with a degree of unrivalled professionalism. We target zero accidents and injuries across our operations, though incident rates are not the only indicator we use to monitor our health and safety performance. We track multiple KPIs that are designed to challenge us to continually progress, with a focus on near-miss reporting, training and safety culture development. We encourage our colleagues to record and report all incidents, no matter how small, to ensure we can learn from each other. Our KPIs are not designed to be a show piece, but to challenge us to continually perform and monitor our progress and development. We encourage our colleagues to record and report all incidents, no matter how small, to ensure we can learn from each other. Our strong belief is that to execute our vision of a transparent and progress-driven work environment, employees must feel empowered to openly raise issues. The performance indicators we disclose are reflective of this culture and allow
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