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Consult all social and environmental indicators in the 2010 registration document

 

Environmental data

  2010 2009 2008
Consumption      
Number of sites monitored 92 95 93
Energy consumption  1,425,400 MWh   1,407,000 MWh 1,657,900 MWh
- electricity   821,300 MWh 794,000 MWh  890,000 MWh 
- fuel oil  83,100 MWh  85,500 MWh  87,900 MWh
- gas   504,400 MWh 516,100 MWh  680,000 MWh
Water consumption  3,000,000 m3  4,400,000 m3  4,760,000 m3
Solvent consumption  720 t  810 t  940 t
Copper consumption  510,000 t  546,000 t  650,000 t
Aluminum consumption 149,000 t  139,000 t 138,000 t
Waste and emissions      
Waste in tonnes  97,280 t   91,910 t 103,800 t
Special waste  6,580 t  6,360 t  6,730 t
Amount of recycled cable manufacturing waste (1)  14,123 t  18,335 t  21,700 t
Number of sites equipped with water recycling systems (2)    86 76 74
CO2 emissions (3)  445,000 t eq CO2  541,000 t eq CO2  -
Management      
Number of EHP-certified sites  67 60 52
Number of ISO 14001-certified sites  54 56 38
Allocated funding (in thousands of euros)      
Environmental expenditure  5,500 7,100 7,500
Capital expenditure  4,600 4,200 3,900
Provisions for contingencies  6,500 5,300 5,000

 

(1) Tonnes of waste processed by RECYCABLE.
(2) Sites where at least 75% of machines are equipped with a water recycling system.
(3) Direct and indirect emissions of CO2 taken from the following reporting captions: Internal energy, Packaging and Waste.
(-) Data not available.

 

 

 

Human ressources data

  2010 2009 2008
Headcount      
Total number of employees (1)  23,648 22,716 23,480

- Europe 

14,618 14,277 14,575

- Asia-Pacific 

2,153 2,437 2,459

- North America 

2,038 1,662 1,803

- South America

2,403 2,203 2,535

- Middle East, Russia and Africa 

2,436 2,137 2,108
Headcount Cables Business  18,007 18,410 19,540
% female employees  14.74% 14.98% 15.44%
Average age    42.3 years 42.1 years 42.1 years
Average length of service  13 years  13 years  13 years
% temporary employees  7% 5% 6%
Employment data      
Natural departures (1576) (1305) (1388)
Restructuring (468) (942) (174)
New hires 2004 1107 1779
Impact of changes in Group structure (363) 19 1816
Transfers 0 (9) (1)
Employee turnover rate (2) 7.70% 6.50% 6.60%
Overtime rate (3) 6.80% 5.50% 6.50%
Part-time contracts 408 409 433
% fixed-term contracts 6% 6% 5%
Diversity data      
% female managers  18.30% 18.90% 19.10%
% fixed-term contracts  345 338 333
Health and safety      
Absenteeism rate   4.46% 4.13% 4.14%
Workplace accident frequency rate (4)  10.41 14.95 23.31
Number of sites with a zero accident   35 36 28
Training      
Total number of training hours  443,000 331,000 269,400
Labor relations      
Number of collective agreements signed across countries  > 60   > 55 > 60
Headcount Harnesses Business   5,641 4,309 -

- Europe  

4,562 3,989 -

- North America 

688 320 -

- Middle East, Russia and Africa 

391 - -
% female overall employees  63% - -
Average age  34.4 years - -
Average length of service 3.7 years   - -
Employment data      
Natural departures  (2,291) - -
Restructuring (22) - -
New hires   3,636 - -
Impact of changes in Group structure  0 - -
Transfers 9 - -
Diversity data      
% female managers 36% - -
Health and safety      
Workplace accident frequency rate (3) 2.98 - -

 

(1) Excluding Nexans Singapore.
(2) Personnel turnover rate = number of departures (resignations, contract expirations, individual terminations, death) excluding departures due to retirement,
restructurings, business disposals and employee mobility transfers/average headcount x 100.
(3) Overtime rate = number of overtime hours worked/total number of hours worked x 100.
(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.
(*) The harnesses business headcount in Tunisia were ranked in 2009 in Europe for 204 people and are now in 2010 in MERA.
(-) Data not available.
 


Related Information
2010 annual report



Related Information
2010 annual report


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