2024 Review And Objectives: Quality, Hygiene, Safety, Security, Environment, Radiation Protection 2025
What are our objectives for the current year and our longer-term objectives to enable us to meet our commitments?
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Radiation Protection
– Individual external exposure: 0.5 mSv/year ( the sievert is a unit used to assess the impact of radioactivity on the human body).
– Body contamination: 0 incidents.
– Material and local contamination: compliance with the operator’s regulations.
Nuclear Safety
Health and Safety
– Frequency rate: 0%.
– Severity rate: 0%. Environment and climate in France:
– Since 2022, the implementation of prioritized measures will target a 25% reduction in GHG emissions by 2025.
– Implementation of eco-driving training via e-learning, the primary lever for reducing GHG emissions by more than 10%.
– Increase carpooling from 2% to 7% through an incentive/internal communication policy.
– Increase the use of public transportation from 9% to 12%.
– Achieve 5% of employees using bicycles/walking.
– Reduce incoming emissions by 20 to 30% by selecting, as much as possible, materials manufactured/produced in a sustainable way (sustainable suppliers).
– Limit long-distance travel to within 10 km of the work location if the journey is made by car. Environment and climate in Switzerland:
– Since 2023, the implementation of prioritized measures will target a 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
– 70% of employees will be based locally by 2030, reducing our emissions by 140 tCO2e.
– Reducing corporate air travel emissions by 30% will reduce our emissions by 15 tCO2e.
– 30% of commutes for our companies must be made by carpooling, reducing our emissions by 15 tCO2e.
– Reducing our consultants’ air travel emissions by 5% will reduce our emissions by 13 tCO2e.
Waste Management and Recycling
Social Aspect
Social Relations
IOTA Industrie is committed to the functioning of employee representative bodies.
IOTA Group has a QH2SER policy aimed at the continuous improvement of its performance in terms of quality, environment, health and safety, nuclear safety, and radiation protection . Here are the changes that have been made to the Policy for 2025 :
- IOTA’s top priorities are:
1. Nuclear Safety.
Nuclear Safety:
– Preventing any risk of fraud or falsification through appropriate measures.
Environment:
– Encouraging and promoting the use of environmentally friendly transportation (carpooling, cycling, public transport).
– Providing training on the impacts of our environmental choices.
– Sorting and recycling our waste.
Corporate Social Responsibility:
– Guaranteeing a respectful and inclusive work environment.
– Promoting a culture of recognition.
– Encouraging employee participation in CSR initiatives and our environmental improvement projects.
> In France, a significant decrease in the frequency rate of 59% is expected in 2024 compared to 2023.
> In Switzerland, the rate remains on a positive trajectory with no accidents.
These results demonstrate IOTA’s effective risk management through prevention strategies aligned with our activities.
Frequency rate: number of lost-time accidents x 1,000,000 / number of hours worked.
Disability
IOTA Group also promotes the professional integration of young people through learning channels (internships and apprenticeships).
Environmental Aspect
Prioritizing the purchase of energy-efficient equipment and contributing to environmental protection are core values in our business. IOTA Group implements a QH2SER policy that integrates pollution prevention, energy and natural resource optimization, waste management, and the reduction of our carbon emissions in an increasingly alarming climate context.
For more than 5 years, IOTA has been engaged in a new solidarity dynamic by committing to respect, in alignment with its objectives for 2030, 7 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals to contribute to the global targets that were adopted by the United Nations in 2015.
> Reducing our paper consumption.
> Recycling and recovering value from our waste.
> Digitizing our processes.
> Developing electronic reporting.
> Promoting double-sided printing.
> Reducing our energy consumption through increasingly alternative practices.
NUMBER OF A4 SHEETS CONSUMED :
Waste Management
France :
Paper and cardboard are recycled by being sorted manually and mechanically. The recovered fibers are used to make paper pulp and recycled paper that can be recycled up to seven times.
Fighting Pollution And The Greenhouse Effect
> Prioritize e-learning training whenever possible.
> Reduce long-distance travel for our consultants whenever possible.
> Develop teleworking options for our employees as much as possible.
> Strengthen our internal culture of responsibility by raising awareness of sustainable development, ethics, and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
> Favor cloud storage (secure cloud).
> Prioritize the purchase of equipment that consumes less energy and resources.
> Limit the charging time of portable devices.
Energy Consumption And Resources
: MONITORING OF ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION
Regarding electricity, Switzerland’s consumption is expected to decrease by 7% in 2024 compared to 2023, indicating a positive start to the implementation of the action plan stemming from the 2023 carbon footprint assessment conducted at Headquarters, aimed at reducing our CO2 emissions. Water consumption in Switzerland remains stable between 2023 and 2024. As for France, electricity consumption is 26.5% lower than in 2023.
CARBON FOOTPRINT
Between July and December 2024, business travel made via the platform generated a total of 88131 tonnes of CO2.
Two climate murals will also be created as part of our CSR days for the Group.
Societal Aspect
Ethical and societal issues are central to our concerns. We ensure compliance with the criteria of independence, integrity, and confidentiality through our code of ethics.
SECURITY-RELATED TRAINING:
57% of employees trained in 2024 in France.
STAKEHOLDERS
Let’s all be vigilant to ensure these results improve over the years!