Sustainability

Committed at all levels

We take responsibility. Not only in terms of the environment, but also when it comes to social and commercial aspects. This is why we set ourselves ambitious targets and believe in commitment and accountability. Our ambition is to maximise sustainability within the lifecycle of your buildings and assets.

Social sustainability

Our employees are our most valuable resource: motivated, healthy employees are the key to keeping us competitive and ensuring the commercial success of our company. This is why we believe in active and sustainable healthcare management. A central component here is prevention: as part of our quality management, we offer inputs and training in the areas of ergonomics, movement and relaxation.

Open feedback culture and continuous development/training

The opinions of our employees are important to us. We use periodic employee satisfaction surveys to try and understand how our employees are getting on. We then put measures in place based on the results – in some cases at short notice. We regularly re-engage with a number of core topics to ensure consistency and consolidation. In addition, we encourage the development of all our employees and offer numerous options for vocational training and further professional training.

Active social partnership

We are committed to progressive working conditions and developments in the cleaning and real estate industry. Among other things, this includes a rigorous approach to countering illegal employment in our sector. In addition, we also support international, national and regional industry associations and have been actively involved in particular in the development of the professional training course on collective bargaining agreements. In March 2018, Honegger was the first company in German-speaking Switzerland to introduce a pilot course, and this delivered findings and benchmarking results that will be incorporated in future industry courses in German-speaking Switzerland.

Social commitment

We support social projects – in 2016, for example, we took part in the “Reine Profis” campaign in Switzerland. Here, under the leadership of Allpura we actively worked together with the trade unions Unia and Syna as well as the federal government and cantons as part of the TAK project to promote the integration of recognised refugees and migrants admitted to Switzerland on a temporary basis. In addition, we also make yearly donations to various aid charities and social welfare organisations like Caritas Bern, Surprise, Terre des Hommes, Amnesty International and Médecins Sans Frontières.

Environmental sustainability

We see it as our duty to protect the long-term safety of the environment. This is why we employ a modern environmental management system, which imposes strict guidelines in terms of environmental protections and eco safety. Our employees are given regular awareness training, and we also run specific environmental programmes with concrete measures that are rigorously incorporated in our day-to-day business. Among other things, these include:

 

  • Frugal use of resources
  • Prudent use of cleaning agents
  • Use of environmentally safe products
  • Use of high-quality cleaning textiles with the Nordic Swan Ecolabel
  • Cleaning methods based on the use of textiles, which partially removes the need for chemicals
  • Constant improvement of energy efficiency – both in terms of our own operational efficiency and also in terms of the maintenance of all building services engineering systems
  • Covering 100% of the electricity demand at the Honegger headquarters with energy from renewable sources as well as partly renewable energies in the branch offices.
  • Energy optimisation with use of waste heat for various systems
  • Conversion of the car fleet to electric vehicles
  • All branches wash their textiles at their own central laundry, WashTec AG.

Central laundry WashTec AG: sustainable and efficient

In our new central laundry WashTec AG, which has its headquarters in Niederbipp (canton of Bern), we do everything we can to minimise our use of natural resources in the processing of cleaning textiles. We use high-performance mop covers that comply with the lowest microplastics level (class A) and are Nordic Swan-certified.

Sustainability

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