Safe working environment

Commitment to Health & Safety (HSE)

We provide a safe working environment. Health and safety at work is a central leadership issue at Implenia, but also an obligation for each and every individual. Clear rules, a personal sense of responsibility and continuous process improvement lie at the heart of our efforts to minimise risks and promote a positive safety culture.

When it comes to workplace safety, we consistently focus on prevention and use targeted measures to raise individual employees’ awareness of risks.

Our HSE Policy

Health, safety, and environmental protection are fundamental to the way we work. In our group-wide HSE policy, we outline how we protect people and the environment and create safe and healthy working conditions. Our goal: Everyone who works for or with us returns home safe and healthy every day.

Safety at work is a leadership issue

Guided by the principle that “safety at work is a leadership issue”, everyone at Implenia – from Executive Committee to foreman to each individual employee – is called upon to keep on making things safer. Safety is a matter of ingrained habit that has to be applied every day anew.

In recent years we have launched numerous initiatives and created various structures to minimise risks on our construction sites. Almost 100% of the Group’s roughly 300 units now have ISO 45001 certification: Implenia has a well developed internal Health & Safety organisation with clearly defined responsibilities, regulations and processes. If any accidents do happen, they are systematically recorded and evaluated, with corrective measures taken wherever necessary. These measures are based on an obligatory discussion between the people involved and their line managers to clarify the causes of an accident.

Clear safety rules

Prevention depends on rules – and on compliance with these rules. Our Code of Conduct obliges all employees to comply with all safety regulations without exception. But people can only follow rules if they know and understand them. This is why we make sure that Implenia’s rules are transparent and straightforward, and why we take steps to actively encourage acceptance of the rules, rather than relying solely on control measures.

The most important thing of all is to say “stop” if a situation appears to be unsafe for you or for others. Our employees are encouraged to pause their work in these circumstances. It is their right, but also their duty. Our employees can also take first aid courses so that they are able to help in an emergency.

Another component of our prevention programme is the monthly “15 Minute Safety” training session, which is held across the Group and which has proved effective on the ground. The sessions are used to deepen engagement with safety themes on construction sites and encourage communication between workers. We are also working to establish a positive error culture that allows people to speak openly about mistakes, so they can be avoided in future.

Health management and prevention

The job of our internal occupational health team (OHM) is to support injured and ill employees during their recovery and help integrate them back into work when they are better. The team also looks for suitable posts, possibly adapted ones, for returning workers. External social partners are called on for support where necessary.

We at Implenia know that prevention is better than cure, which is why we provide preventive measures and training courses at local level. If our employees have mental health issues, they can access an external advisory service, ICAS, at any time.

Health & Safety Award

Implenia has been organising the Health & Safety Award since 2015: an annual award that highlights the great importance of occupational safety and health protection and recognises exceptional commitment, a sense of responsibility and personal initiative. All Implenia employees are therefore encouraged to nominate a construction site, a team or an individual for the prize. The award enables best practice in the field of occupational safety and health to be shared across the entire Implenia Group.

In 2026, the Tangenvika Bridge team from Norway took first place for a bold decision following challenges in the area of health and safety: they halted work, carried out a thorough analysis of the causes and launched a comprehensive turnaround. Through a new leadership approach, intensive safety dialogue and a culture in which every individual takes responsibility and can stop work if in doubt, safety was firmly re-established for the long term.