French construction group Acorus, which specialises in the renovation of property assets, has implemented an active safety policy that has helped halve the number of lost days due to accidents in the space of two years. Acorus focuses in particular on training to help technicians take care of their bodies "like athletes do" in terms of nutrition, sleep and exercise.
Thanks to the deployment of its new safety policy, Acorus (1,100 employees, including 950 technicians) has succeeded in gradually reducing work-related accidents: the number of days off work has fallen from 9,482 in 2020 to 6,266 in 2021 and 4,402 in 2022. The overall accident severity rate has also been reduced: from 4.69 in 2020 and 3.68 in 2021, down to just 2.08 in 2022. “The aim is to bring this figure down to 0.5 in 2023,” says Virginie Gonçalves Poujouly, quality, health, safety and envi
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