We have placed sustainability at the heart of our Purpose and made a promise to advance a sustainable energy future for all.
Under the People strand for action of our sustainability strategy, we are supporting a safe, inclusive, equitable, and just energy transition by focusing on three areas: health and safety; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); and human rights and social contributions.
Our top targets
Within our sustainability strategy’s People strand of action – and in alignment with relevant SDGs, our high-impact commitments, and Hitachi Energy’s guiding principles – are the following top targets:
Health and safety
We are committed to minimizing harm and to eradicating fatalities, life-changing injuries, and major environmental incidents. We are determined to provide positive health and wellbeing work environments that require us to create safe working conditions, seeking continual improvement through learning from successes and failures.
We promote a strong HSE culture through training and recognition as well as communication of our Life Saving Rules and our health saving actions.
Our stance is that health, safety, and environment must always come first in the decisions we make, and we take a robust risk-based approach and encourage proactive management of hazards and risk. We encourage all working for us to speak up if they have a concern as we believe that we all have a responsibility to protect ourselves, others, and the environment. We openly report our performance and seek to both learn and build trust in our approach through external validation.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Our global team of over 40,000 employees represents 136 nationalities across 90 countries and six continents. We integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into all our practices and policies. This means including, accepting, and respecting all areas of diversity. Together, we are creating an inclusive culture where all are welcome and empowered to contribute and unique strengths are embraced, respected, and used to drive us forward. Living Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a daily commitment while continuously implementing interventions.
Our Diversity 360 approach seeks to support all aspects of this topic which is fundamental to our plans to grow the business by supporting attraction and retention.
Human rights and social contribution
Securing a just energy transition is a critical aspect of our sustainability strategy: we strive to respect and uphold human rights in our value chain, realize social innovation, create a positive impact on worldwide communities, fostering sustainable human development, whilst contributing to the wellbeing of people. Our responsibilities are fully reflected in our Human Rights Policy, Social Policy, and due diligence processes. Alongside, we strive to proactively, meaningfully engage with a wide range of stakeholders and social actors. As part of our license to operate and thanks to our global presence, we are thus able to implement distinctive activities and contribute to the development of the local communities where we live and work, particularly investing in education and human development.