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Social and environmental indicators

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You can consult all indicators and comments: Extract from Nexans 2009 Registration document (PDF).

 

Social indicators

    2009 2008 2007
Headcount      
Total number of employees 22, 716 23,480 21,898
  Europe 14,277 14,575 15,184
  Asia Pacific 2,437 2,459 2,273
  North America 1,662 1,803 1,87
  South America 2,203 2,535 504
  Middle East, Russia and Africa 2,137 2,108 2,067
% women (1) 14,98% 15.44% 15.43%
Average age (1) 42.1 years 42.1 years 41.3 years 
Average seniority (1) 13 years 13 years 13 years
% temporary staff (1) 5% 6% 7%
       
Employment data      
Resignees (1) (1,305) (1,388) (1,219)
Restructurings (1) (942) (174) (179)
New hires (1) 1,107 1,779 2,151
Impacts of changes in Group structure (1) 19 1,816 (324)
Transferts (1) (9) (1) -
Staff turnover rate (1) (2) 6.5% 6.6% 6.3%
Part-time contracts (1) 5.5% 433 440
Overtime rate (1) (3) 409 6.5% 5.0%
% fixed-term contracts (1) 6% 6.5% 8.0%
       
Diversity      
% female managers (1) 18.9% 19.1% 18.8%
Disabled employees (1) 338 333 -
       
Health and safety      
Absenteeism rate (1) 4.13% 4.14% 4.07%
Workplace accident frequency rate (1) (4) 14.95 23.3 -
Number of sites with zero accident rate 36 28 11
       
Training      
Total number of training hours (1) 331,000 269,400 312,501
       
Labor relations      
Number of collective agreements signed by country (1) > 55 > 60 > 70

  

(1) Excluding the automotive cable harnesses business.
(2) Staff turnover rate = resignees (excluding retirees) ÷ average headcount x 100.
(3) Overtime rate = number of overtime hours worked / total number of hours worked
(4) Workplace accident frequency rate = total number of workplace accidents with more than 24 hours of lost time ÷ total number of hours worked x 1,000,000.
(-) Data not available.

  

Environmental indicators

  2009 2008 2007
Consumption      
Energy consumption 1,407,000 MWh 1,657,900 MWh 1,715,000 MWh

Electricity

794,000 MWh 890,000 MWh 913,000 MWh

Fuel oil

85,500 MWh 87,900 MWh -

Gas

516,000 MWh 680,000 MWh -
Water consumption 4,400,000 m³ 4,760,000 m³ 4,743,000 m³
Solvent consumption 810 t 940 t 740 t
Copper cunsomption 546,000 t 650,000 t 718,000 t
Aluminium consumption 139,000 t 138,000 t 154,000 t
       
Waste and recycling      
Waste 91,910 t 103,800 t 93,500 t

Of which special waste

6,360 t 6,730 t 6,200 t
Amount of recycled cable manufacturing waste (1) 18,335 t 21,700 t 21,993 t
Number of sites equipped with water recycling systems (2) 76 74 -
CO2 Emissions (3) 541,000 t eq CO2 - -
       
Management      
Number of monitored sites 95 93 98
Number of EHP-certified sites 60 52 50
Number of ISO 14001-certified sites 56 38 37
       
Allocated funding (in thousands of euros)
Environmental expenditure 7,100 7,500 7,300
Capital expenditure 4,167 3,892 4,487
Provisions for contingencies 5,260 4,956 7,304

 

 

(1) Tonnes of waste processed by RecyCâbles
(2) Sites where at least 75% of machines are equipped with a water recycling system
(3) CO2 direct and indirect emissions coming from In-company Energy use, Packaging and Waste
(-) Data not available


Related Information
2009 annual report and registration document



Related Information
2009 annual report and registration document


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