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Health and safety

We believe that our employees’ wellbeing is built on a safe and supportive working environment together with a healthy lifestyle and work-life balance. Safety is embedded in all our daily operations. Effective risk management, incident investigation, and lessons learned from past incidents play an important role in improving our operations and safety. We make it our top priority that everyone working in our premises has the right to a safe and healthy working environment.

Health and well-being

We work closely with our employees and external occupational health organizations to support the wellbeing of our people. Almost all our employees are represented by management-worker safety committees that meet regularly. The primary aim of these location-specific committees is to monitor and advise on occupational health and safety issues and programmes. We have yet to establish safety committees in our newest and smallest locations. We recognize that the wellbeing of our people directly affects employee engagement and our business success.

Safety at work

At UPM, we see safety as a value that always guides how we operate. We have set an ambitious target of being an accident-free workplace. We foster an environment and culture where everyone can work without compromising their own and others' wellbeing. Our health, safety and wellbeing practices are based on our company purpose and values, Code of Conduct and three specific UPM safety principles.

Our health and safety practices are based on UPM’s purpose and values and UPM Code of Conduct. UPM Safety vision and safety principles capture the essence of our safety culture and the mindset we want to embrace. UPM Safety standards guide us in the implementation and define the minimum requirements.