Responsible employer

Our strategic commitments

Integrate the skills expected by promoting equal access to all forms of diversity.

Reinforce the company’s excellence as an employer, making every Rolex applicant and employee a brand ambassador.

Promote internal mobility and succession management.

The organization and technical resources implemented by Rolex meet its high standards in terms of health and safety risk prevention and management. Guided by specialists – occupational physicians, company nurses, psychologists, safety engineers and health and safety experts – this initiative covers all activities carried out at the brand’s sites. Its aim is to ensure that everyone working on the company’s premises enjoys optimum working conditions that guarantee their health, safety and well-being.

In this context, the Occupational Safety Department guarantees compliance with regulations. It also provides expertise and raises awareness. The company’s managers oversee compliance with applicable and applied rules while ensuring that those concerned by specific risks receive the necessary training. Employees, meanwhile, are committed to correctly following Rolex’s directives on occupational safety and security.

The health and safety management system covers all staff. The company also ensures that external parties comply with legal requirements and, when required, the company’s own rules. By signing Rolex’s Sustainable Development Charter, partners pledge to respect the legal health and safety framework when carrying out their business activities.

Risk prevention

Rolex has rolled out safety processes for all its business lines. The aim is to identify and assess risks at the earliest stages of projects and to implement preventive and/or corrective measures. The company informs its employees about the risks specific to certain activities or potentially dangerous manufacturing processes. This is the case for exposure to hazardous substances, the use of which is also subject to an internal approval process.

Measurements are taken regularly at all sites with the help of external experts. For example, a complete mapping of noise exposure levels was carried out in the production workshops. This made it possible to formulate internal rules on noise emissions that are more stringent than the legal recommendations, which were then communicated to equipment suppliers to be taken into account at the design stage. In parallel, a new IT tool dedicated to reporting hazardous situations is being developed to improve the existing process.

In terms of health protection, various procedures are deployed, particularly with regard to ergonomics and the working environment. They focus on managing noise-related stress, protecting staff hearing, and overseeing lighting and workstation layout. Preventive medical examinations can also be carried out in case of skin problems, poor management of biological rhythms due to night shifts, or for maternity follow-up, and so on. A preventive eye-care campaign was also rolled out in some workshops in 2023, offering eye tests and glasses to those who needed them.

Workplace accidents and emergency management

The workplace accident frequency rate for Rolex employees in Switzerland is 3.2 per 1,000,000 hours worked.

In 2023, no serious or fatal accidents were recorded via the system for reporting and managing work-related incidents and accidents. Moving around within the company is the main cause of occupational accidents. In the workshops, the finishing stations generate the most incidents.

The safety teams intervene whenever an unexpected event occurs, analysing the reasons for it and adapting safety concepts as needed. An in-house first aid team – the company’s first responders – provide emergency care.

Rolex did not record any occupational illnesses at its sites in 2023.

Well-being at work

Internally, employees can rely on a Health Division that includes company nurses and occupational psychologists. Every employee can request the support of an occupational physician and professionals from the social sector. Representatives from Human Resources and members of the Staff Committee are also at their disposal.

In 2023, Rolex signed a partnership agreement with the Otium Foundation, whose mission is to improve the quality of life of people directly or indirectly affected by cancer. All employees and those living in the same household can therefore benefit from the Foundation’s support in the event of illness. It assists affected employees with their return to work post-treatment, and offers support to their professional entourage.

Psychosocial risk prevention

In keeping with its core values, Rolex creates a healthy, safe and respectful working environment that promotes the physical, mental and emotional well-being of all company employees. To achieve this, Rolex implements policies, programmes and resources to support employee fulfilment on a professional and personal level, and is committed to a process of continuous improvement.is also subject to an internal approval process.

Since 2023, managers have benefited from specific training on psychosocial factors, with particular emphasis on the themes of stress management and prevention, personal integrity, diversity and inclusion. To date, 170 managers and executives have taken the basic course. There are plans to extend this work on raising awareness to all management staff and employees.

In addition, Rolex offers support to all its employees who are experiencing personal or family difficulties related to health, finance, the authorities, public services or other social bodies. In this respect, it offers them social support through independent organizations whose advisers deal with a wide range of topics including divorce, debt, funding for higher education, long-term illness and support for carers. There is also an addiction support procedure.

Harassment

Rolex has specific guidelines set out in its applicable internal regulations, internal services and a dedicated process to prevent, deal with and monitor cases of harassment. Mechanisms for identifying and handling cases are in place through human resources management and monitoring practices. When a situation arises, the measures taken focus on protecting the victims first and foremost, and on adapting the organization and implementing proportionate penalties for those responsible for violating personal integrity.

Any employee experiencing harassment can also turn to trusted external partners, who specialize in dealing with this topic. Since 2024, an alert system set up by the company also enables cases to be reported anonymously and recorded via a secure third-party platform.