idex’s commitment to the environment, its employees and society

We expend all the energy we need to in order to achieve zero accidents. Occupational safety is—and will remain—idex’s number-one concern.

We are taking action on several fronts:

• The 6 safety golden rules aim to prevent the main risks; they are non-negotiable in all circumstances and aimed at avoiding serious accidents.
• The 11 managerial best practices help all managers carry out a self-assessment and map out their plan to more effectively factor safety into their everyday work. Preventing risks and reducing accident statistics are both essential aspects of a manager’s role.
• All idex group employees starting a new job have safety briefings.
• Local correspondents hold 15 to 30-minute safety talks every month.
• Safety inspections involve a period of observation followed by a conversation with the person observed about their practices, to heighten their awareness of risks and find ways of avoiding them.
• An in-house app, Ma Sécurité, monitors safety in real time.

We conduct regular surveys to gauge employee satisfaction levels and expectations regarding their quality of life at work. These surveys include risk factors related to mental as well as physical health.

Our full policy on health and safety

Lost-time accident frequency rates halved from 2018 to 2022

idex offers competitive alternatives based on stewardship, energy efficiency and increasing the proportion of renewable and recovered energy in the mix, which include:

• Converting household, farming and forestry waste into energy
• Developing heating networks
• Decarbonizing industry (biomass, biogas, harnessing unavoidable energy and using by-products)
• Developing decentralized low-carbon infrastructure (photovoltaic, charging stations for electric vehicles, etc.)
• Supplying energy consumption management solutions (e.g. individualizing heating costs)

Coal will be gone from France’s energy mix by the end of 2023, and idex has stopped bidding to operate heating and cooling networks that are exclusively fueled by gas.

Instead, it is focused on developing or converting networks to run them on renewable or recovered energy.

By working side by side with clients to reduce their energy consumption and ease their reliance on fossil fuels, and by looking for solutions to tap into unavoidable energy and by-products locally with a circular economy approach, idex is contributing to lowering greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing the energy system’s resilience.

idex has also pledged to lead by example, especially as regards mobility (its fleet will be green by 2030 and it encourages employees to use active travel options) and responsible use of electronic devices.

idex reaches out to its communities and makes sure its projects—especially its industrial ones—preserve natural resources and biodiversity while spurring local economies and jobs. It does this principally by building relationships based on trust and cooperation with customers, suppliers, local authorities, public agencies, non-profits and other stakeholders.

idex also applies a responsible procurement policy. It opted into France’s charter on “responsible supplier relations and purchasing” in 2013, and has its own charter on responsible procurement. It includes quality and CSR criteria in its calls for tenders and supplier selection processes. It also assesses its suppliers on a yearly basis.

More about our responsible procurement policy

€110 million invested in 2022