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S U S TA I NAB I L I T Y R E PORT 2 0 1 2
In line with the priority that we attach
to the continuous development and
improvement of our people’s qualifi-
cations, the education and training ini-
tiatives in MYTILINEOS Group are the
framework which ensures the devel-
opment of the necessary skills of our
employees, so that they can play an ac-
tive part in the Group’s evolution,
and guarantees our competitiveness in
the long-term. In this context, the
training programmes carried out an-
nually by our subsidiaries are the prod-
uct of a well-planned, comprehensive
effort that is driven by the short- and
long-term needs of our personnel.
Through our subsidiaries, during 2012,
we carried out a total of 54,029
hours of training programmes, in-
creasing the average training hours per
employee to 34.2, up from 31.5 in
2011. In terms of the subjects covered
by our training plan, 77% of the total
number of training hours were allo-
cated to Health & Safety, 12% to Tech-
nical Training, and 11% to a variety of
subjects, of which the most important
ones were the development of Per-
sonal Skills and Continuous Progress,
as well as IT Skills and Foreign Lan-
guages learning. The total training cost
for the Group stood at €1.27 million.
A large part of these training pro-
grammes were carried out as in-house
seminars, especially in ALUMINIUM
S.A. and PROTERGIA S.A., as in addi-
tion to facilitating the educational
process itself, this approach offers a
number of further advantages: It al-
lows direct intervention to improve the
training procedure where required, it
increases the number and qualifica-
tions of the in-house trainers involved,
and it improves the propagation of
best practices at all levels.
6.2 Employee Education, Training and Development
Average personnel training hours
employment position
2011 2012
Average training hours (Executives)
31.3
26.3
Average training hours (Administrative employees)
17.7
18.2
Average training hours (Technical & Labour personnel)
45.1
44.6
Average personnel training hours by gender
2011 2012
Average training hours (Men)
35.0
37.2
Average training hours (Women)
8.5
10.5
METKA S.A. gives priority to the
development of the knowledge
and skills of engineers and of their
capacity for dynamic adjustment
to the demands of modern-day
technologies. In line with this ap-
proach, the company has strength-
ened the technical training of its
site engineers, who take active
part in technical on-the-job train-
ing programmes, during which
training is delivered under actual
work conditions.
With 17.7 training hours per year,
ALUMINIUM S.A. and PROTERGIA
S.A. post the highest average
training hours per year and per
employee for women – a figure
considerably higher than the cor-
responding average of the Group.
