Ponsse is com­mit­ted to deve­lo­ping safety and pre­ven­ting acci­dents. Our tar­get is an acci­dent-free workplace by 2027. Our safety com­mit­ment applies both to our own per­son­nel and exter­nal emplo­yees such as ser­vice pro­vi­ders wor­king in our faci­li­ties. We also want to be a res­pon­sible and safe part­ner for our cus­to­mers.

Safety tar­gets can only be achie­ved if eve­ry­one invol­ved in Ponsse’s ope­ra­tions takes res­pon­si­bi­lity for their own safety and that of others. Whet­her you are wor­king at Ponsse or inte­rac­ting with us in other ways, it is impor­tant to us to hear about your wor­king days from the pers­pec­tive of safety.

At the begin­ning of 2025, we star­ted to report safety inci­dents invol­ving exter­nal par­ties. Inci­dents are recor­ded in our acci­dent sta­tis­tics in the same way as acci­dents occur­red to Ponsse’s emplo­yees. They will also be inves­ti­ga­ted, as we want to bet­ter unders­tand the causes of all serious or poten­tially serious acci­dents rela­ted to our ope­ra­tions so that we can pre­vent them in the future.

”We are all com­mi­ted to the tar­get zero acci­dents. We are not there yet, but we are wor­king with super­vi­sors every day to achieve this tar­get.
For example, we discuss safety obser­va­tions on a daily basis and think about the cor­rec­tice mea­su­res requi­red.”
- Jaakko Apaja, Ope­ra­tio­nal Safety Mana­ger

Glo­bal safety team

To deve­lop safety, Ponsse appoin­ted safety specia­lists to a glo­bal safety team in spring 2024. The aim is to achieve synergy bene­fits and enable the most effec­tive use of our safety exper­tise in our ope­ra­tions. This change was pos­sible because our sales and main­te­nance ope­ra­tions are fairly simi­lar across the world.

“We hold regu­lar mee­tings with our cus­to­mers, with safety being an inte­gral part of
the agenda. Last Octo­ber, we were happy to see that our cus­to­mers had already noticed that good prac­tices had been sha­red more acti­vely in our network. This is reflec­ted posi­ti­vely in our safety deve­lop­ment. In addi­tion, I would like to emp­ha­sise that, to succeed in our safety tar­gets, it is impor­tant that every Ponsse emplo­yee
par­tici­pa­tes acti­vely in safety acti­vi­ties in accor­dance with the principles desc­ri­bed in
our com­pany,” says safety and health pro­fes­sio­nal Pedro Betti from Ponsse’s country
orga­ni­sa­tion in Uru­guay.

Know­ledge inc­rea­ses safety

To deve­lop safety, we need to know what kinds of safety issues eve­ry­one faces in the
Ponsse network. All Ponsse emplo­yees can record their safety obser­va­tions in our sys­tem, and we also offer this option to third par­ties wor­king in our area. We are deve­lo­ping our sys­tem to furt­her improve the com­mu­nica­tion of safety obser­va­tions in our network. Our pro­duct safety team would like to hear ideas and views to deve­lop the safety of our pro­ducts.

“Our goal is that, in the next few years, we will have the same safety mana­ge­ment
tools and safety instruc­tions in use across the world. We will next deploy the Safety Pil­lars, which obli­gate eve­ry­one who works in our faci­li­ties and dif­fe­rent acti­vi­ties. They are very conc­rete rules and relate to many high-risk work sta­ges, inclu­ding lif­ting and wor­king close to hazards. With these selec­ted rules, we want to high­light the risks that are often associa­ted with our ope­ra­tions and under­line a safe way to work. It is impor­tant to us that you care­fully read the rules and learn safe ways of wor­king
and ope­ra­ting. If neces­sary, more infor­ma­tion is avai­lable from super­vi­sors, Ponsse’s con­tact per­sons and mem­bers of the glo­bal safety team,” says Päivi Kos­ki­nen, Glo­bal Safety Mana­ger. “A safe work envi­ron­ment is also built as a team!”

”A safe work envi­ron­ment is also
built as a team!”

Päivi Kos­ki­nen, Glo­bal Safety Mana­ger