Our people
The Austral family is made up of more than 1,200 employees and workers who perform their daily work under a culture of sustainability and a responsible fishing approach.
At Austral, our employees and workers are the most important link in our value chain. For this reason, we promote their professional and personal growth through various training, talent development, integration and recognition programs.
We promote respect for fundamental human rights and ensure decent working conditions as established by the United Nations in its Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ILO, international standards and Peruvian regulations. Similarly, our organizational values promote the principles of integrity and ethics, which we take pride in.
Our human resources programs aim to contribute to the well-being of our employees and workers. Here are some of them:
We offer training sessions and courses that are of great value for the development of our human talent. As part of the digital transformation framework, we have implemented the “Austral Campus” platform, a learning space which allows for the development of courses related to technical and soft skills, well-being, and occupational safety and health, and more. We also recognize employees and workers who display optimal levels of performance and who are a benchmark for our culture through various recognition programs, thus ensuring their professional and personal development.
Acknowledgements to our Employees and Workers:
- Outstanding Achievement Award
- Best Team Award
- Best Leadership Management Award
- Best Suggestion Award
- Tú Eres (“You Are”) Award
- Dale Like (“Give It a Thumbs Up”) Award
- Best Fishing Vessel Crew Award
- Best Engine Operator Management Award
Training for our Employees and Workers:
As we achieve high levels of satisfaction, our talent management has been recognized by national and international certifications.
Hazte una Pez Program
This program is a platform for welcoming innovation proposals from employees and workers, identifying new ideas in our daily work and opportunities for process improvement. The solutions proposed by our employees and workers are evaluated and implemented when they represent an efficient and effective solution to a previously identified problem. The authors of said proposals receive public recognition and a financial incentive, thus sharing the benefits they have gained from their contributions.u aporte.
Since its launch in 2015, this program has received a total of 146 suggestions. In 2022, 14 suggestions were submitted, of which 5 have been approved and relate to improvements in the areas of energy savings, process optimization and raw material recovery. At the end of 2022, the program has 78 approved suggestions, resulting in an economic benefit of approximately USD 860,000 in the evaluation of the first year of implementation alone, of which USD 23,000 were generated in 2022.
The Hazte una Pez program seeks to:
- Promote the participation of workers in the company’s continuous improvement.
- Improve communication.
- Encourage teamwork.
- Inspire the participants to develop their technical and management skills.
At Austral, we are all safety leaders
For us, it is essential to ensure safe and healthy workplaces through our Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) management system. Therefore, we promote a safety culture that extends to our employees, workers, suppliers, and visitors across our operations. As a result, our accident rate for production plants and vessels is 1.92, which is a source of pride in the fishing sector.
Furthermore, we are the first Peruvian fishing company to obtain ISO 45001 certification in all our premises and fishing fleet, reaffirming our commitment to continue performing our work safely, while actively promoting our motto “We are all Safety Leaders”.
Austral has the most important safety index within the fishing sector
For Austral it is also very important to guarantee safe and healthy workplaces through our OHS management system, for this reason we promote a safety culture that extends to our workers, suppliers and visitors in all our operations, achieving by 2023 to be the First Peruvian fishing company to obtain ISO 45001 certification in all our headquarters and fishing fleet.
We carry out our work safely with active participation, having and promoting our motto "We are all Heads of Security". In this sense, we have an accident rate indicator at the level of production plants and fishing vessels that has reached 1.92 due to our OHS management, reaching the most important safety index within the fishing sector.
