2024-02-01 10:08:26
Ibercaja It is the first Spanish financial entity to obtain the certificate for his System of AENOR SIGOS Healthy Organization Managementwithin the framework of its commitment to health and safety at work, prevention of occupational risks, health promotion, financial health, well-being and sustainability of workers, their families and the community.
Yesterday, the CEO of Ibercaja, Víctor Iglesias, presided over the event and the event in which the Director of Conformity Assessment at AENOR, David de Pastors, presented the SIGOS certificate to the Director of Ibercaja’s People Area, José Ignacio Oto.
As Iglesias stated, “at Ibercaja we are firmly committed to the health of each and every one of the people who work in our Entity. This has been, is and will be one of the main management priorities of our People Area management, as its current head, Nacho Oto, and his predecessor, Rodrigo Galán, who is also present here today, know very well. .
For this reason, the CEO of Ibercaja has conveyed the “pride of the entire organization for achieving this milestone and being the first Spanish financial entity to obtain the SIGOS seal from the prestigious AENOR certification company.”
For his part, de Pastors stated that “society demands sustainable organizations, and sustainability does not only refer to environmental issues. Today, social commitments are perhaps the most in demand and the certificate that we delivered today to Ibercaja reflects the organization’s commitment in this field. With it, Ibercaja can convey to all its interlocutors that the well-being and health of its teams is a priority, and also do so with the support of the most valued certification.”
This recognition highlights all the initiatives that the Bank is carrying out in the aforementioned areas and demonstrates its commitment to their continuous improvement. In this sense, AENOR’s evaluation has highlighted, among others, the commitment of Ibercaja’s senior management, reflected in its Healthy Organization declaration and its inclusion as a strategic project in the 2023 Challenge Plan; the Health and Wellbeing action plan in 2023, focused on the needs detected in a previous diagnosis; the low levels of absenteeism and accidents; environmental commitments; and 75% participation in employee experience surveys.
The delivery ceremony took place in the Xplora space at the Bank’s headquarters in Zaragoza, during the day organized by Ibercaja and the Government of Aragon jointly, “The Health of Aragonese companies”. The Second Vice President and Minister of Economy, Employment and Industry of the Government of Aragon, María del Mar Vaquero, and the General Director of Labor of the Government of Aragon, Jesús Divasson, as well as representatives of prominent Aragonese companies, such as SAICA, BSH, Más Prevention and Ibercaja, which have shared the best practices they carry out in their organizations with the aim of being healthier companies for the people who make them up.
Successful participation and staff satisfaction
The different initiatives deployed in Ibercaja’s 2023 Health and Wellbeing Action Plan have been very well received by the people who make up the Bank’s organization. Thus, 1,638 people from the Bank’s staff have participated in the different activities proposed during the year under this theme, with a total of 3,060 participations.
94.25% of the participants stated that the experience has reinforced their pride in working at Ibercaja. Likewise, views on the intranet of the We are healthy page have risen to 8,617. This page includes information for staff regarding all the activities of the health and wellness program, news with health, medicine and lifestyle tips or recordings of the webinars that are carried out.
AENOR Healthy Organization Management System
The World Health Organization lists four key aspects to promote well-being at work: physical work environment, psychosocial work environment, personal resources at work and company participation in the community.
The Luxembourg Declaration and the publication by the World Health Organization of the document “Healthy work environments: foundations and WHO model” in 2010, were the precedents for beginning a path towards excellence in health, safety and well-being at work through continuous improvement in the management of the four avenues of influence for a healthy work environment established by the WHO; that is, physical work environment, psychosocial work environment, personal resources at work and company participation in the community.
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