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Act Responsibly

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We understand well that we have an obligation to act responsibly, particularly when it comes to how we treat people – our own employees, our stakeholders and the communities in which we operate.

Keeping everyone safe, offering a sense of community, and ensuring each and every member of a diverse and talented workforce has a ‘voice at the table’ is critical for the success of our business.

Highlights in 2023

78% fewer reportable safety incidents since 2019, and a 32% reduction in 2023.
Global delivery of Effective Hiring training, female recruitment and promotion targets, and improved maternity pay in the US and UK.
New ‘pulse’ survey launched to seek and address employees’ views.

Target I: Eliminate lost-time accidents

By 2025, we will reduce our Lost-time accidents (LTA) rate to zero and we will reduce our  Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) each year.
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Highlights in 2023

While our LTA rate has remained stable, we now have more ‘zero harm’ sites than ever before, with 32% fewer incidents year on year.

Future outlook

Safety culture is well implemented throughout our sites. We will further embed it by continuing our root cause assessments and sharing best practices.

Target II: Become more diverse

By 2025, the percentage of women at management levels at kp will exceed 30%.
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Highlights in 2023

We have made good progress towards our target and conducted the UNGC Gender Equality Accelerator self-assessment to improve our gender equity.

Future outlook

We will continue to incorporate best practice into our training, policies and processes to further embed gender equity into our business.

Target III: Engage employees better

By 2025, our employee engagement score will improve to over 80%.
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Highlights in 2023

In 2023 we moved from the global survey to a pulse survey targeting specific topics, starting with a focus on communication.

Future outlook

We are currently reviewing a plan to conduct a global engagement survey towards the end of 2024.

Target IV: Make a difference in our communities

All kp plants will complete at least one impactful community project annually, doubling that by the end of 2025.
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Highlights in 2023

Our sites continued to engage with the communities and in the past year we had 52 projects in 18 sites.

Future outlook

We are excited to partner with our local communities and explore the variety of ways we can give back.

Act Responsibly in action

Safety events improve engagement

In 2022, we held our first ‘safety day’ at our Bukowice site in Poland. This aimed to reinforce our commitment to safety, increase employee awareness of safety measures. and promote pro-safety behaviours. The event was a great success and in 2023 all of our sites held either a safety day or safety week, tailored to topics of their choice.

Safety days and weeks will be held again in 2024, as the events were judged to have had a significant positive impact, and best practice from 2023 has been collected and shared.

Safety events improve engagement

Employee Resource Networks go from strength to strength

Employee Resource Networks go from strength to strength

Since 2022, we have supported three Employee Resource Networks (ERNs) – kp Balance, kp Ability and kp Women’s Network. In 2023, we welcomed the launch of a new ERN, VOICED, a network for ethnic and racial minorities, and their allies.

Our ERNs comprise groups of employees who connect in the workplace based on shared characteristics or life experiences. Each ERN is sponsored by a member of kp’s leadership. Open to all, they exist to educate, improve workplace equality, provide support and encourage professional development.

Pulling together to support earthquake victims

In 2023, we were able to support the humanitarian crisis relief following the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria. Our employees raised €5,209, and we matched this and made a further donation of €10,000 to the charity GlobalGiving. We also made a €25,000 donation to the Red Cross.

Colleagues from our Gebze site in Istanbul worked with customers and suppliers to help survivors cope with the harsh winter conditions in the aftermath. We supplied thermoforming customers with rigid films so they could produce trays which our logistic companies helped deliver, free of charge. At times like this, customer and supplier relationships count – and we ensured those who were directly affected received our support where required.

Pulling together to support earthquake victims