The personal security of the employees has first priority. Therefore the Group companies shall regularly assess the need for programmes and arrangements to ensure the security of the employees.
Such programmes and arrangements must be tailored to fit the Group companies’ circumstances and locality and must include a decision for the need of the following:
- Admittance control
- Surveillance installations
- Alarms
- Evacuation procedures
- Fire protection and inspection
- Safety procedures in connection with business trips (with focus on critical regions, precautions to be considered in connection with possible injuries or the possibility of being taken hostage)
- Staff information and education programmes
Procedures
Initiatives shall be taken by the management of the Group companies to ensure that the employees are informed of, understand and comply with the arrangements for security to the extent required and that considerations for the security constitute a natural part of the everyday routines in the Group companies.
Each employee shall share the responsibility for their own security and that of their colleagues and they shall respect the existing legislation and guidelines issued by the authorities, including keeping themselves informed of the Foreign Ministries’ guidelines regarding travels to countries where the local conditions for security are not adequately known in advance.
Employees cannot be required to take business trips into countries or regions in which the level of security according to a Foreign Ministry’s guidelines for travel are of such a nature that travelling or staying is fully or partly cautioned against.
Employees shall always have the right to refuse to perform work which they consider to be of a risk to the security.
December 2011