Valuing
our people
Safety, well-being and professional development form the basis of SIMPAR's success
We have more than 35 thousand direct employees*, who make a difference and guarantee our business success. Our work draws on a sturdy culture and solid values of:
- Devotion to Serve
- People
- Simplicity
- Ownership Attitude
- Sustainability and
- Profit
We believe in each employee’s growth potential and use the People Cycle to further careers and prospects: in 2021, more than 3 thousand people were promoted internally*. * Including apprentices, interns and trainees.
4,635 people
involved in the People Cycle
35 thousand employees,
58.5% of employees are brown/black
Over 230 thousand hours of training provided to them
Safety is nonnegotiable
We maintain Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) and Integrated Management practices, which support our subsidiaries.
In 2021 we endeavored to reduce our accident rate and to control and combat Covid-19 with campaigns and initiatives focused on safe behavior.
social, professional, health and legal consultations provided - in the Connected to You (Ligado em Você) program.
mobilized in the pandemic response
Good practices in safety:
- Using breathalyzers
- Reporting and investigating incidents and accidents
- Detecting hazards and risk assessment
- Working safely at heights
- Complying with the transportation of hazardous products legislation
- Working safely in confined spaces
- Alcohol abuse prevention program
- Right to refuse unsafe work conditions
- Average truck fleet age: 2.29 years
- Average independent fleet age: 9.9 years
- Field audits using applications
Diversity & inclusion agenda
Launched in 2020, our Respect for Diversity Program addresses one of SIMPAR's cultural priorities: valuing people. The strategies and practices aim to promote a diverse and inclusive workplace for:
- Women
- black people
- people with disabilities and
- people aged over 55
Leading initiatives:
- • Leadership, managers and drivers trained in unconscious biases
- • Awareness workshop on people with disabilities day.
- • Training disadvantaged young people to enter the labor market
- • Hiring interns under JSL's Women at the Wheel (Mulheres na Direção) program
You want it, you can Program (Programa Você Quer? Você Pode!):
Restructured in 2021, this professional training and inclusion program caters to youth who live in shelters or in socially precarious situations in the region of Alto Tietê (SP), in partnership with Instituto Ser+. In its first year, the holding company and its subsidiaries hired 24 of these youths as young apprentices.
Our target:
to benefit 1.000 young people with professional inclusion initiatives in 2022