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We care about people

We take social responsibility by looking after our employees, customers and local residents. Our focus is on continuously improving safety at work and promoting the wellbeing of our staff and others in the region. We want to ensure our employees have an open and inspiring working environment in which they can thrive.

2025

Safety observations

1027

TRI-frequency

12,5

Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS)

+36

Working for equality

Being open and treating everyone equally is important to us in everything we do. We do not tolerate discrimination in any form, and we promote fairness in all our activities. Our aim is to develop ways to promote equality in our work.

At the moment there is a major gender imbalance at Oulun Energia as 79,3% of our employees are men and 20,7% women. Women make up 33,3% of the management team, and 66,7% of the board members are men.

We want to play our part in breaking down the barriers between professions and in developing ways to attract jobseekers of different genders. Oulun Energia’s job application processes and hiring policies are gender-neutral. We endeavour to ensure that new job titles are not gendered in any of the languages we use. For instance, rather than using the masculine Finnish-language term esimies to refer to managers or supervisors, we use the gender-neutral esihenkilö. Oulun Energia has drawn up an equality and equal opportunities plan, and as part of implementing it we have carried out a survey to examine gender equality in pay. We also conduct an equality and equal opportunities survey for all our staff every two years.

Diversity enriches the work community and the way we work. Although the Oulun Energia work community is fairly homogeneous in terms of genders, languages and educational backgrounds, we are looking for new ways to increase diversity.

In our recruitment processes, we will pay careful attention to recruiting people with skills that we do not yet have. At the moment, we mainly carry out recruitment in Finnish, as a good command of the language is essential for many of the positions at the company. However, we are open to considering recruitment in other languages on a case-by-case basis.

Prosperity for the region

In addition to our staff, Oulun Energia also considers it highly important to invest in wellbeing in the Oulu region as a whole. We are involved in organising various cultural and leisure events, and we hold free sports days for people in the area every year. We also support local sports and cultural activities. Read more about our sponsorship partnerships here.

Aiming for zero accidents

Our objective is to ensure that our employees have completely safe working days and that we achieve zero accidents.
 
Our most important safety indicator is the TRI frequency, meaning the number of all accidents requiring medical treatment per one million working hours. Our TRI frequency has decreased significantly over the past ten years. In 2025, the TRI frequency was 12.5.

 

Focus on staff wellbeing

Oulun Energia’s goal is to be the most energetic workplace in Finland – to guarantee our employees an open and inspiring working environment that contributes to their well-being, helping everyone to succeed and learn.

In 2025, a employee survey was conducted to measure overall employee experience and willingness to recommend (eNPS). Employee net promoter score rise to +36 when last year it was +7.

 

 

Read more about staff wellbeing in Oulun Energia