CONTRIBUTE CONTRIBUTE Strengthening dialog with all stakeholders As a responsible industrial company, Air Liquide pursues a sustainable and balanced development model that values dialog with its various stakeholders. Bertrand Piccard, President of the “Solar Impulse” Foundation and Founder of the “Global Alliance for Efficient Solutions”, and Benoît Potier, Air Liquide Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. IMPROVING WITH EMPLOYEESSHARING SKILLS water and materials. Their contribution them to automate processes as much as To build momentum for the green revolu- will be to assess the solutions identified possible. Three years later, Air Liquide Safety is an integral part of our operational excellence. Diversity, being a source of dynamism, creativity and perfor-tion in all sectors, the pilot and designer by the Alliance, using criterias that will was satisfied with the outcome. It was It is a Group fundamental. Air Liquide is committed to the mance, is a priority of Air Liquide’s Human Resources policy. of the Solar Impulse plane, Bertrand help determine if they are sustainable, only natural that the Group’s Procure- efficient and ongoing reduction of its employees, customers, It is a fundamental element of our organization and drives the Piccard, has launched the "Global economically viable and easily replicable. ment teams recommended the company subcontractors and suppliers’ exposure to professional and Group’s long-term performance. Equality between men and Alliance for Efficient Solutions”. This call After having supported Solar Impulse to other entities within the Group and to industrial risks. Feedback is also an essential practice in the women is an essential point in the expression of this diversity.for projects aims to select solutions that since 2013, the first solar airplane able to other major groups. Ultimately this helped Group’s safety approach. Lost-time accidents and potentially are both economically profitable and fly day and night without fuel, the Group this supplier strengthen its business serious safety incidents are analyzed so that lessons can be respectful of the environment. These has once again teamed up with Bertrand and guaranteed the sustainability for learned and an action plan set up.projects will be unveiled in 2018 du-Piccard and his Solar Impulse Founda- Air Liquide of this solution. This support ring the COP 24 in Katowice, Poland. tion, sharing this pioneering spirit and for small to medium-sized companies is Since its integration into the Group, Airgas has made progress Air Liquide, which has already partne-desire to transform the world of energy the mission of “Pacte PME”, a joint French in the area of safety. The lost-time accident frequency rate red with the Solar Impulse adventure, is to make a better environment.association that Air Liquide has been has dropped sharply over a year and is now in line with the 26%teaming up with Bertrand Piccard again. actively engaged in since its creation in Air Liquide level.By uniting the main providers of clean and 2010. This platform aims to strengthen Percentage of women among sustainable solutions, the Alliance will SUPPORTING SMEs cooperation between large groups and Group employeesidentify and select 1,000 solutions to en- As a major economic player, Air Liquide French SMEs to provide innovation and courage governments, municipalities and strives to support small businesses in agility to the former while developing the companies implement ambitious energy their development. It is within this spirit of business and sustainability of the latter. policies. The Group is a long-standing partnership that Air Liquide has been col- player in developing innovative solutions laborating since 2014 with the Archibald 1.6 that help improve air quality or prevent Group, a company with 30 employees 29% climate change, such as hydrogen energy that specializes in managing, digitizing Frequency of accidents and biomethane for cleaner transpor- and securing data, to optimize invoice (number of accidents with at least one Percentage of women among tation.Therefore, Air Liquide is going to processing by centralizing all its supplier day of lost-time per million hours worked)Managers and Professionalsprovide the Alliance with the expertise accounting services in France. Today, of a group of nearly 100 of its experts, Archibald digitizes these accounting particularly in the areas of energy, documents but also extracts data from 2017 data.42 43