Human capital 
Investing in people experience
We differentiate ourselves through our people-centric approach and inculcate a culture of transparency, inclusion, collaboration and excellence, making Havells a ‘Great Place to Work’. Our policies and practices are aimed at providing a conducive work environment to meet the aspirations of our people, while ensuring their safety and well-being.
Talent development, engagement and retention
We carry out continuous employee training to upgrade skills and equip our people with the latest technologies in the market. We regularly engage with our employees, with a special focus on ensuring their well-being and retention. This year, we conducted ~65,000 hours of training sessions for the skill development of our employees. These sessions included trainings on functional/behavioural and technical topics, in close coordination with our in-house experts. Knowledge-sharing sessions on innovative technologies like IoT, were also conducted.
In the beginning of 2022, we announced the Employee Ownership Plan (EOP) – a new Wealth Creation Plan for all employees, wherein a percentage of an employee's fixed pay would be given to them based on the Company’s annual business performance. We feel such initiatives will strengthen our employees’ engagement and ownership within the organisation, syncing their career and life goals, with that of the organisation’s.
On-boarding new joiners in hybrid mode
On boarding new joiners in a hybrid work environment with long stretches of Work from Home (WFH) poses certain challenges in connecting and engaging with the rest of the organisation. We moved our new employee orientation ‘QRG Connect’ to the online platform MS Teams.
We conducted regular sessions every month, wherein senior leaders took the new joiners through the Company’s journey, evolution and culture. All orientation and on boarding interactions were planned and rolled out and with the interactions being coordinated on Teams.
Diversity and inclusion
Havells is an equal opportunity employer. We have gender neutral remuneration policies. The ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men is 1:1. 100% of our employees are evaluated based on their qualification and performance. We are able to attract and retain young talent through a combination of youth-friendly policies and constant engagement with the leadership team. The average age of our 5,797 permanent workforce is 38 years. The average age of the 1,164 new joinees in the organisation is 33 years. We maintain a keen focus on talent deployment at our Centre of Research & Innovation (CRI) division, recruiting 68 new engineers with an average age of 27 years.
To ensure better gender diversity, we focus on hiring more women and creating a supportive work culture. Our women employee strength currently stands at 4%.
We are also committed towards developing the skills of our freshers. We hired 192 apprentices during the year, which is 14.15% of the total hiring.
Health and safety
We have always strived to maintain the health and safety of our employees and contractual workers, making it an utmost priority for the organisation. We have undertaken several initiatives to prevent and reduce injuries at our plants, and ensuring safety for all.
Safety Steering Committee
We have set up a management safety review team, comprising plant heads, head of department for safety, factory workers and engineering team members. The team provides strategic direction, approves business level strategies, policies and safety standards, and monitors and reviews performance within its area of control and influence. The responsibilities also include ensuring resource availability, reviewing safety performances and the effectiveness of safety procedures. The responsible director reviews the progress of safety management system and the KPIs of all locations on a regular basis. 100% of our workers are covered by our occupational health and safety management system.
Raising safety awareness
Targeted safety placards, posters and signboards are placed at strategic locations, to raise awareness and to reinforce that safety is everyone’s responsibility. All our plant sites are ISO 45001 certified. Annual National Safety Week is observed across plants, wherein safety quizzes, awareness sessions, discussions over tea, prize distribution and safety pledges are rolled out.
We have established a safety command centre at each plant to track and raise awareness on our safety culture.
We have also introduced a ‘One Point Lesson’ accident investigation format. Additionally, the PPE Matrix has been revised and plant-wise PPE training modules have also been deployed. A system of safety challans and surprise checks are put in place to strengthen the safety controls.
Safety training categories
Behaviour-based safety training
PPE training programme
Near miss identification training
High risk equipment/area training
Safety induction
26,000+
Safety training hours conducted in FY 2021-22
Zero
Fatalities recorded in FY 2021-22
