The Vestas Safety, Quality, Health, and Environmental (SQHE) Policy and HSE framework outline the procedures in identifying, mitigating, and reporting health and safety related negative impacts and risks for own workforce as well as for contractors and suppliers in the value chain for all positions globally. The SQHE Policy is approved by the Executive Management and supported by our HSE management system based on the principles of ISO 45001. Reports on injury rate performance are shared with the Board on a quarterly basis, and with the Executive Management team on a monthly basis. Our SQHE Policy applies to all Vestas entities, employees, activities, products and services, and includes our expectations in relation to external parties. The policy is reviewed annually and was aligned with the ESRS and Vestas’ HSE framework in 2024.

Every health and safety incident is one too many, and we thoroughly investigate each case to assess root cause and mitigation actions at the given site of occurrence. The inherent risk and negative impact of health and safety incidents is actual, short-term, localised and not widespread or systemic. When operating in a heavy industry it also becomes naturally connected to our business model and part of our strategy including commitments, targets and progress reporting aligned with our annual reporting cycle.