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A
Caring for our people
Safety, health and well-being
Social sustainability
Introduction
Sustainability
Review
Other
Information
Financial
Statements
Report
of the
Supervisory
Board
Report
of the
Executive
Board
At HEINEKEN, the Safety, Health and Well-being
strategy reflects our company value of Care.
Building on the company value of Care, this year’s
Safety Day theme was: ‘Because we Care, I don’t
compromise Safety.’
We focus on shaping a leading health and safety
culture fully embedded in our ways of working,
counting on everyone’s leadership, engagement and
participation. To support this journey towards shaping
a leading health and safety culture, a cultural safety
programme has been developed and piloted during
2023 and is planned to be rolled out in 2024.
In 2023, we have created and launched our
Health and Safety Academy with diverse learning
opportunities to further develop the health and
safety capabilities across the organisation.
With health and well-being as a key priority at
HEINEKEN, we focused on supporting our employees
through our HEI-Life framework. Four dimensions of
well-being were addressed: professional, emotional,
social and physical. We have collected our global and
operating company well-being initiatives and best
practices under the HEI-Life framework, promoting
sharing and learning throughout our HEI-Life
community, fostering a culture where people openly
discuss and address well-being while embracing
enjoyment of life.
In 2023 we continued to advance our social
sustainability ambition. Our values place people and
community at the core. This has anchored us for over
159 years, defining our past but also forming the
foundation for our future success. At HEINEKEN, we
are dedicated to promoting and upholding human
rights in the realm of the business. One of the key
2023 initiatives has been the launch of a new People
function competencies model, with human rights
included for the first time; governance, clear roles and
responsibility and necessary capabilities being
paramount to deliver ambitions and embed
practices into the business.
Steady progress was made on our global initiative to
ensure fair living and working standards for third-party
employees and brand promoters, as well as on gender
balance. We delivered on our 2023 targets for fair
wage, equal pay, supporting the economic
empowerment of our employees, as well as on
inclusive leadership practices training.
In 2023 we built leadership safety capabilities.
Reaching our regional nationals targets happened to
be more challenging than anticipated. We will
nonetheless continue to focus on these important
initiatives, as business as usual practices, embedding
them into our daily operations. New people managers
will be trained on inclusive leadership, on safety and
on our company's Life Saving Commitments as part
of their mandatory onboarding training.
The journey of the past three years brought a lot of
learnings. They will help inform the next generation of
our social sustainability ambition, as promoting DEI
and offering a fair and safe workplace remain of
strategic importance for the company.
Visit page 145 to learn more about what we have
done on our social ambitions
Heineken
N.V.
Annual
Report
2023
