Measures

A safe place to work in our opinion is a job where you can work safely and feel safe that your job will still be there tomorrow. In practice this implies that we put the safety of our people first and also invest in knowledge and development to maintain high qualified jobs in the communities also for the next generation. All our employees are also equipped with safety radios connected to a 24/7 alarm center.

HSE management system

We have a dedicated system in place to handle HSE-risks and continuously perform risk assessments related to HSE and register and follow up deviations and incidents.

The HSE management system applies to, and is accessible to all our staff, permanent and temporary. Subcontractors are obliged to comply with our HSE rules and procedures.

Risk management

All activities at our sites shall be managed based on assessed risk and all our staff are responsible to contribute to risk assessments. Risk identifies in risk assessments are classified to identify risk above an accepted threshold.

Measures shall be taken and implemented to reduce risk to the extend that it is practically possible, and the measures are implemented in processes, procedures and activities where relevant.

HSE training

Our employees carry our first aid training and training in use of safety radios. In addition, they take part in emergency preparedness exercises and other HSE training at the sites. Our safety representatives also carry our a mandatory extended HSE course. We have separate safety representatives in each region and have regular dialog and inspections together with them.

Occupational health service

Our staff are covered by an occupational health service, which also work as advisor in HSE cases. All our permanent workers are also offered a free annual health control and our occupational health service also prepare an annual report on the occupational health status in the group where e.g., exposure to dust, chemicals, noise, vibrations and physical strain are assessed. The results from individual health controls are confidential, but we receive aggregated data.

Other offers

In addition to the free annual health control our permanent staff has an extended medical insurance policy and regular access to a chiropractor to prevent load damages. At our head office there is also a gym accessible to all employees. We focus on having fun together and regularly meet to summer and Christmas parties.

All our staff are of course also covered by occupational injury insurance.

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Results

We had no fatalities or serious work-related injuries in 2021. We did not have any such cased in 2020 either.

In total we had eight work related injuries in 2021, this corresponds to 15.3 cases per 200,000 hours worked. In addition, one of our subcontractors carrying out a diving operation at one of our sites experienced a potentially serious incident All incidents are followed up in our HSE monitoring system.

The total absence rate was 3%, an increase from 2% in 2020. We estimate that the Covid-19 pandemic has been an important contributor to the increase.

We have a diverse workplace with employees from Sweden, Germany, Lithuania, Malaysia, Romania and Syria in addition to our Norwegian employees which account for most of our employees. Our employees are mostly located in the communities where we operate, and all our staff are based in Norway.

At the end of the year, we had 61 employees and 52 of these are permanent positions. We also have nine temporary employees, out of which six where apprentices.

Most of our activities are carried out by our own staff and we do not have large seasonal fluctuations in the work. During summer holiday, weekends and for some operational activities we hire substitute workers to assist us. Since these substitute workers have short contracts, they were not formally employed at year end and therefore not included in the head count reported. In total of 16 substitute workers where active during 2021.

A safe workplace is a place where people are happy and feel seen and included. To achieve this, we believe that it is important to have fun together. Having fun together is an important motto for Eide and a parameter that we measure every year in our employee surveys (on a scale from 1-5, where 5 is the highest score).

Ten of our employees are women and 16% of our employees are women. The Director of the Board of the group is a woman.

The average salary for all women in the group is 95% of the average salary for all men (average across all types of positions and roles). The main reason for the difference in average salary is that we have a high female share amongst our apprentices.

Measures

Eide is proud to support and sponsor a wide range of local sports and cultural teams and associations in the areas where we operate.

We also believe in the importance of local suppliers and businesses. Therefore, we try to purchase most of what we need from local or regional suppliers and businesses when this is possible.

To ensure access to skilled workers in the communities we focus on education. Eide Fjordbruk is an important employer in many communities and a certified company to apprenticeship in both the aquaculture profession and the automation profession. We normally have around six apprentices amongst our employees. We also have a close cooperation with the aquaculture education program of the local high school Fusa Vidaregåande skule.

Results

Measures

We are a small and transparent business, and our focus is to build and maintain good attitudes and relations based on mutual trust. Reliability is one of our five core values, and we shall
be trustworthy. We also expect the same from our customers, suppliers, partners and employees.

In addition to our core values, we have implemented procedures to reduce the opportunities to break the rules and values. We ensure this through e.g., close involvement from owner to operator and segregation of duties between the farms and the office and with our external accountant.

Happy and health employees with good terms also contribute to reduce the chance that someone might feel pressured to or the need to break the law or our internal procedures. We respect the freedom of association.

Results

We have not identified and cases or suspected cases of corruption or fraud in 2021.

The debate about the aquaculture industry and its impact on the environment and surrounding ecosystems is often in the media. In addition to the local impact our industry has, the global sustainability and climate debate is also increasing its focus on sustainable food production. The debate is complex, it follows political divides and is sometimes characterized by populism, ideology and economical incentives and interests. Science and fact-based knowledge are frequently challenged by myths, undocumented opinions, misleading information and alternative facts.

With our visitor center in Rosendal, Eide Fjordbruk wants to contribute to science and fact-based knowledge, and put local challenges, solutions and innovations in a global context, with a special attention to the environmental aspects of the production.

From the harbor in Rosendal the visitors will embark on a journey in our fully electric vessels Malm and Melmer transporting the guests silently through the water to Salmon Eye outside Snilstveitøy.

With its unique design, Salmon Eye will be an icon and at the same time offer an exciting learning experience for the guests to the center. Salmon Eye aim to be a monument for sustainable food production in the sea.

Here the visitors will both learn, engage actively and be able to provide their own ideas on how to make aquaculture even more sustainable in the future.

Salmon Eye opens in 2022.

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