The health of its employees is very important to LEONI. We clearly achieved our goal of reducing the global accident rate, i.e. the number of accidents at work per 100 employees, to 0.3 by 2023 with a figure of 0.2.
We have set ourselves the goal of introducing a certified occupational health and safety management system (ISO 45001) at 100% of our production sites at WSD by 2025 and at ACS by 2028. We also want to further expand our local health and safety projects by 2025. In 2023, various projects such as breast cancer screening, blood tests, flu vaccinations and preventive medical check-ups were carried out at our plants.

LEONI already has a gender balance in its overall workforce. However, we are also committed to further increasing the proportion of women in senior management and on our Executive Board. We aim by 2030 to have 20% of our senior management positions (Levels 1-3) occupied by women.  By 2040, the proportion of women in leadership positions is to be at least 40%. To this end, we are supporting women by offering various schemes for achieving permanent career advancement and intend to target women in our recruiting processes.

As part of its climate strategy, LEONI has set itself binding targets for the use of renewable energy as well as raising its own energy efficiency. By 2025, we will already be drawing 80% of our energy from renewable sources; by 2030 almost 100%.

Our LEONI Code of Conduct for Business Partners, we unequivocally define protection against human rights abuses for LEONI but also for our upstream value chain. In 2023, we systematically assessed both our own company and our business partners for potential human rights risks and derived appropriate measures.

Promoting sustainable mobility contributes to making cities safe, resilient and sustainable. In keeping with our vision of ‘Best in Class Wiring Systems’, we also intend to be a provider of innovative solutions with respect to sustainability challenges. We are advancing decarbonised mobility by offering such new product solutions for alternative drive technologies as e-mobility. We are already executing individual energy efficiency projects at some facilities, for example by installing innovative solar energy panels.

We are presently working on measures to step up our use of secondary raw materials and on replacing ecologically critical materials with more sustainable resources as ways of contributing to more sustainable production. Furthermore, we intend to ensure that both social and ecological standards are observed in our procurement of raw materials. To this end, we have set ourselves goals for raising the transparency of both our purchased materials and the social as well as ecological impact of our suppliers.

We are committed to the Paris Climate Agreement with the aim of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. By 2050, we will have lowered the emissions along our entire value chain (Scope 1-3) by 90%. And from 2040 at the latest, we will have neutralised all unavoidable emissions at our own facilities (Scope 1 and 2), thereby being climate-neutral in our own production.

The ecological and social challenges in our value chain can only be overcome jointly. We therefore attach great importance to collaboration and regular exchange of ideas with our suppliers and customers, but also with such other stakeholder groups as NGOs and sector associations.