We strive to ensure that all our employees recognise Espersen as a good and safe place to work, wherever we are in the world.
Our approach
- Inclusive working environment and equal opportunities
- Equal accessto training and development opportunities
- Safe working conditions across production and administrative sites
- Employee engagement, support and respectful treatment
- Respectful and responsible workforce management
- Support for employees affected by workforce changes
- Respect for different nationalities, genders, ages and cultural backgrounds
- Organisation-wide health and safety procedures
- Digital reporting of accidents, near misses and unsafe conditions
- Monthly site-level health and safety reporting
Our targets
- Ensure at least 40% of appointed Board members are women by 2030
- Year-on-year reduction in accident frequency and severity rates
- Continued progress towards zero accidents
- Timely closure of identified health and safety non-compliances through corrective actions
Our actions
- Espersen’s operations are guided by the labor standards set out in the Ethical Trade Initiative’s (ETI) Base Code
- Conduction of third-party Sedex Member Ethical Trade Audit (SMETA) audits covering social aspects of our production plants
- Member of SEDEX
- Job fairs and employment support for employees affected by site closures
- 30+ nationalities represented across the workforce
- Diversity and inclusion initiatives across production and administrative functions
- In 2025 we achieved a 49% share of female directors, senior managers and managers. We strive to keep these numbers.
- Health and Safety Policy across the organisation
- Accident and near-miss reporting processes
- Digital incident reporting for production employees
- Monitoring of accident frequency and severity rates
- Corrective actions for identified health and safety non-compliances
- Ongoing health and safety improvement initiatives
If you would like to find out more about how far along we are in our progress towards achieving our targets, please have a look at our latest sustainability report.