Health, Safety, Environment & Quality

Set­ting the highest stand­ards. Then ex­ceed­ing them.

HSEQ is­n’t just a pri­or­ity for us and for our cli­ents, it’s a pre­requis­ite. Se­cur­ing health, safety, the en­vir­on­ment and qual­ity is simply es­sen­tial and something that we must prac­tice every day. Both now and in the fu­ture.

HSEQ is every­one’s re­spons­ib­il­ity, and we work tire­lessly with our HSEQ ex­cel­lence net­work and col­leagues around the world to con­tinu­ously im­prove our local and global pro­grammes. This in­volves con­stantly search­ing for ways to min­im­ise risks and op­tim­ise pro­cesses to bring about con­tinu­ous im­prove­ments pro­act­ively – for the be­ne­fit of every­one we work with, for our en­vir­on­ment and for the qual­ity of all our pro­jects.

From em­ploy­ees on site and in the of­fices to the mem­bers of the ex­ec­ut­ive board – health, safety, the en­vir­on­ment and qual­ity are al­ways at the top of our minds.

Vari­ous fur­ther cam­paigns and pro­grammes were im­ple­men­ted throughout the com­pany, such as the KAEFER HSE in­cid­ent man­age­ment app, which was launched in 2015. In 2016, we star­ted with KAEFER safety cul­ture train­ing around the world and in­cluded men­tal health man­age­ment into our ap­proach in 2018.

Today, more than ever, it is es­sen­tial to con­stantly take ac­tion to im­prove our health, safety, en­vir­on­ment and qual­ity. This means that every­one in our com­pany plays a part in mak­ing HSEQ an at­ti­tude and something we can pas­sion­ately get be­hind – from the top down and the bot­tom up. Our ap­proach and the ac­com­pa­ny­ing ini­ti­at­ives and pro­grammes have a sus­tain­able im­pact, which is also re­flec­ted in a con­tinu­ously im­prov­ing safety re­cord.

Vari­ous fur­ther cam­paigns and pro­grammes were im­ple­men­ted throughout the com­pany, such as the KAEFER HSE in­cid­ent man­age­ment app, which was launched in 2015. In 2016, we star­ted with KAEFER safety cul­ture train­ing around the world and in­cluded men­tal health man­age­ment into our ap­proach in 2018.

Today, more than ever, it is es­sen­tial to con­stantly take ac­tion to im­prove our health, safety, en­vir­on­ment and qual­ity. This means that every­one in our com­pany plays a part in mak­ing HSEQ an at­ti­tude and something we can pas­sion­ately get be­hind – from the top down and the bot­tom up. Our ap­proach and the ac­com­pa­ny­ing ini­ti­at­ives and pro­grammes have a sus­tain­able im­pact, which is also re­flec­ted in a con­tinu­ously im­prov­ing safety re­cord.

At KAEFER we say “sharing is caring”. If you see an unsafe condition or risk of any kind, we want our people to report it, raise awareness and take action to address it, so the issue can be resolved.

Since the beginning of 2024, all HSEQ events – such as injuries, environmental/quality incidents, near misses and observations are reported and managed in Sphera, our new HSEQ incident management tool. Linked to this tool, we offer our first report mobile application ProtAct. It is the front-end to the event reporting, which any KAEFER employee or contractor can use directly to report an event. ProtAct can be accessed via a QR code or a direct link. Reporting can be done anonymously and in any KAEFER language, in text or speech-to-text. The report is automatically translated into English as well, and further translations are automatically available for users who need them. This will help us to further reduce any kind of language barriers amongst our international teams and we can act as ONE KAEFER.

Once the details of the event have been entered into the system, the relevant KAEFER guiding principles, consequences, potential risks, actions, and investigations are managed by the responsible KAEFER employee. Actions can be assigned and followed up in the system. The collected data will help us to further analyze trends, not only regarding injuries, but also near-misses and observations. With our new HSEQ incident management tool, we will increase people and line management involvement, since we are able to further extend our set of leading indicators based on a globally harmonized reporting of the entire incident pyramid.

At KAEFER we have always looked out for each other, but now there is a simple and efficient way to emphasize this and proactively support and further strengthen our safety culture.

We have a strong in­ter­na­tional HSEQ Ex­cel­lence Net­work that forms the back­bone of our ap­proach to be­come a learn­ing or­gan­isa­tion – based on best prac­tice es­tab­lished in the HSEQ work­ing streams. This is act­ively sup­por­ted by Cor­por­ate HSEQ and in­volves the fa­cil­it­a­tion of ini­ti­at­ives, net­work­ing with­ing the group and gain­ing new know­ledge and in­sight to en­sure that we con­tinu­ously im­prove all areas of HSEQ.

Our local ex­perts identify and share best prac­tice and are em­powered to fur­ther de­velop HSEQ in their own busi­ness units based on the unique chal­lenges, en­vir­on­ment and pri­or­it­ies in­her­ent in every mar­ket. This al­lows our HSEQ Ex­cel­lence Net­work to con­tinu­ously set and main­tain the highest stand­ards.

In ad­di­tion to com­pli­ance with legal re­quire­ments, we have stead­ily in­creased the num­ber of ex­tern­ally cer­ti­fied com­pany units (DIN EN ISO 9001 / 14001 / 45001) to en­sure sys­tem­atic, in­teg­rated HSEQ man­age­ment.

KAEFER is cer­ti­fied by global and re­gional HSEQ man­age­ment sys­tem stand­ards. These are ac­know­ledged and ac­cred­ited by im­port­ant in­ter­na­tional cer­ti­fy­ing bod­ies such as DNV, TUV Nord CERT or Lloyd´s Re­gister, to name just a few.

KAEFER and its in­teg­rated sub­si­di­ar­ies also have cer­ti­fic­ates in the fields of weld­ing, fire pro­tec­tion and nuc­lear in­su­la­tion tech­no­logy, amongst oth­ers.