Talent is the core competitiveness of the Group, and BEWG attaches great importance to staff development. We constantly improve the promotion and development system, optimize the career development channel of employees, and develop training programs according to the different needs of various employees, and provide diversified training to promote employee growth.
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Promotion system
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Training system
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Improving the ability of front-line employees
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Professional training
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International talent grooming
BEWG enhanced its salary and performance management systems, to refine our human resources system and motivate employees. Taking varying roles and responsibilities into account, we utilized personal target KPIs, 360-degree evaluation, and ranking among employees at the same level to ensure fair promotion opportunities.
• For in-house leaders, BEWG uses the 360-degree evaluation model in leader promotion, position adjustment and annual evaluation. This includes feedback about their performance from employees – from upper levels, the same level and lower levels – and the leader themselves. This feedback plays a key role in human resources decision- making. Self-management, leadership and business management are core factors in the 360-degree model, making the evaluation comprehensive yet focused. It provides employees with scientific evaluation, helps them identify strengths and weakness, and encourages them to continue growing.
• BEWG’s employee evaluations are based on management by objectives and core value competence. Individual goals are based on our quarterly, biannual or annual performance. The results influence bonuses, promotions, salary adjustments and training, and hence drive the Group’s goals.
BEWG attaches great importance to employee training and development. To support our overall development and human resource strategies, we have established the BEWG School. A combined online and offline model provides diverse training to employees at different levels.
We train employees according to their aptitude. In 2019, for the management level, BEWG opened the China Environment Industry Senior Manager class (Batch 9), Senior Operation Manager International class (Batch 1), National Waterworks Director class (Batch 6), Water Supply Enterprise Management Personnel Advanced class (Batch 2), Human Resources Director class (Batch 1) and Finance Director class. These enhance the abilities of managers and cultivate future leaders. For new employees, we opened the Management Trainee class, 2019 Internal Lecturer Development Camp and 2019 New Employee Growth Capability Enhancement Training Class. These and other camps and classes help new employees fit in with BEWG’s culture, improve occupational skills, better undertake projects and realise personal values. In 2019, we had a training coverage ratio of 100% for employees.
The Group organized the 2019 Knowledge and Know-how Examination for front- line employees, which tests employees' understanding of basic knowledge such as corporate culture, safety, equipment and environmental protection supervision. The examination helped employees improve their basic knowledge and capabilities and promoted the strategic transformation of human resources for the Group. The Group also held the Employee Skills Competition in 2019, which improved the skills of first- line employees and created an atmosphere of competing to learn skills.
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BEWG conducts the first Knowledge and Know-how Examination and focuses on improving the ability of front-line employees
In 2019, BEWG conducted the first Knowledge and Know-how Examination for operation companies, covering nearly 10,000 people. The targets are managers from operation companies and front-line operation employees. The content is mainly about the basic knowledge of corporate culture, safety, sewage, water supply, equipment, testing and environmental protection inspection which operation employees should grasp.
This examination not only comprehensively tested the knowledge of the first-line operation management employees and business employees in the Group, but also improved the employees' learning of operating procedures and safety production specifications, which is conducive to enhancing the ability of front-line employees and promoting the strategic transformation of human resources while encouraging the enthusiasm of employees to learn the knowledge and know-how and building the Group into a learning organization.
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Beijing Enterprises Water successfully held the second "Evergreen Cup" Professional Skills Competition
From December 10 to December 13, 2019, Beijing Enterprises Water Group’s second "Evergreen Cup" Professional Skills Competition was successfully held in Yongzhou, Hunan. 31 players from the five regions of the Group participated in the competition.
This competition set up two competition subjects for water supply network leak detection and sewage water quality test. The leak detection project of the water supply network is an actual competition. The terrain of the stage covers different situations such as residential quarters, main roads, and commercial centers. During the competition, the average walking distance of all participants was more than 20 kilometers, and a total of 44 effective leak points were identified. The sewage water quality test focuses on assessing the operation standardization, skill proficiency and accuracy of results of the phosphate concentration test to test the mastery and level of the relevant professional knowledge, technology and operation specifications of the sewage test players.
The two-day competition not only improved the standardization and accuracy of the sewage water quality test, selected the elite soldiers of all units, but also stimulated the enthusiasm of the employees for learning through the preparation for the competition, and created a strong atmosphere for learning.
The Group attaches great importance to all-line training. In 2019, the Group conducted professional training on different lines such as investment, construction, finance and human resources and educated the basic operations, system regulations and management requirements of the project life cycle, comprehensively improving the professional skills of employees.
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BEWG launched a full line of training activities in the construction system
The theme of our construction system training was "master required knowledge and skills, empower the frontline". The meeting focused on project management, including basic operations and system norms. All of our members in the construction field were well informed. Multiple regions and projects benefited from the training and tests were organized for relevant personnel. BEWG’s functional centres worked together to complete the joint acceptance check (at completion) and onsite teaching.
National Construction Project Manager training is sponsored by the BEWG School, co-organised by Enterprise University of China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group Co., Ltd and our human resources centre.
The first class involved two rounds of intensive training in September and December. Sixty trainees successfully completed the study. These included construction project managers from regions and business departments, and key professionals from our Construction Management Centre, construction enterprises and supervision companies.
The Group takes the countries which are leading in water treatment and environmental governance around the world as the role model and learns advanced technology and operational experience from them. BEWG took the lead to launch an international operation training class in the industry. The Group sent junior operation managers with great potentials to Japan for studying and researching and let them apply the learning to improve the water treatment operation efficiency of the Group, thereby promoting the development of international operation employees.
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BEWG opens Senior Operation Manager International Training
BEWG’s first Senior Operation Manager International Training – a collaboration between our Human Resource Centre, Operation Management Centre, the BEWG School, the Water Agency and the Japan-China Science and Culture Centre – began in August. With a 40 days’ preparation, the training offered 40 days of overseas training, research and study.
The training included theory and field studies, such as a water quality test in Hanamigawa and a treatment plant study in Toyota. The initiative yielded the creation of the Overseas Research and Study Management System, generated 43 overseas research reports and studies, and facilitated strategic cooperation between water industry talent in China and Japan.
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BEWG promotes the strategic cooperation between China and Japan on water operation employees
On December 6, BEWG, Water Agency Co., Ltd. and Japan-China Science, Technology and Culture Association executed the Agreement on Talent Training and Strategic Cooperation Framework in Water Treatment Operation Management at the 13th China-Japan Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Comprehensive Forum. The three parties reached a basic consensus on the cooperation based on that all parties give their full play in human resources and technology.
As progressive and professional water treatment enterprises, BEWG and Water Agency Co., Ltd. hope to deepen mutual understanding and exchange experience and technology under the common sense of mission, striving to improve the water environment of Japan and China, or even the third parties (countries and regions).
BEWG always takes the health and safety of employees as its top priority, and strictly abides by the Production Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases and other laws and regulations to guarantee the occupational health and safety of employees.
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Safe production
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Occupational health
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Employee care
BEWG is clear on responsibilities and working procedures, to ensure safety in production. These are documented in BEWG Administrative Measures to Implement the "Three Simultaneous" Precautions for Occupational Diseases, BEWG Responsibility System for Safety in Production, BEWG Regulations on Hazard and Risk Assessment，and BEWG Regulations on Occupational Health.
BEWG has established production safety committees at the corporate headquarters and all primary business departments. As the supreme decision- making body, the committee at the headquarters studies and checks major production safety matters and supervises implementation of safety measures at the primary departments.
The quality security centre at our headquarters formulates annual safe production targets, according to actual conditions. It issues Letters on Commitment on Safe Production Target to all regions and departments under the direct management of headquarters. We collect monthly safety reports from all primary business departments, summarize and follow up on them, and issue a report with our analysis. This provides a scientific basis for BEWG’s overall safety management.
BEWG initiates safety inspections. In 2019, over 40 specific inspections were undertaken in the five regions at corporate level. There were also 224,026 routine safety inspections, 5,884 specific inspections, 4,286 comprehensive inspections and 1,931 external inspections in our regions and project companies.
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"Safe work month for zero incidence - preventing and eliminating risks, safe production" campaign jointly launched by the northern region and the Changping sub-regional centre
A novel safety activity was organised by the northern region and the Changping sub-regional centre at the Shahe Recycled Water Treatment Plant on June 29. It aimed to strengthen the awareness of the employees and put safe production requirements into effect. More than 60 staff took part.
The activity consists of three parts – quiz, outdoor safety drill, and building the "6S" road of the water treatment plant. Through the events, we might discover our weaknesses and turn them into strengths to improve the project company’s understanding of safe management and performance.
Changping sub-regional centre makes a special outdoor training drill under the requirement of safe production activity, including "bridge making", "the wounded carried by stretcher" and "simulation drill in a confined space".
The northern region gets experience at the first line, learns about business in practice, and lays the foundation for the implementation of future work by the "safe production month" activity. At the same time, Changping sub-regional centre would continuously promote safety management, strengthen hidden-danger removal, make the safe production system more rigorous, assign responsibility, effectively ensure safe production and achieve zero accidents per year based on the activity.
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First "Ankang Award" competition held by BEWG
BEWG’s first "Ankang Award" competition was held by the Quality and Safety Centre and Labour Union and presented by the eastern region at Shandong Qingdao Jiaonan Water Treatment Plant on November 13, 2019. The competition consisted of three events, including operation and emergency rescue in a confined space, fire drill and CPR, and a safety knowledge quiz. Forty-five competitors from the five regions took part. After fierce competition, the eastern region took first place and won the superb team award.
Our frontline employees’ superb safety skills are embodied in the competition. It also helps implement the practical application of BEWG’s commitment to safety, strengthens our safety training, heightens employees’ awareness and enhances emergency-handling abilities. The competition reflects BEWG’s focus on talent construction and the craftsmanship spirit of the model worker, gives full play to the strengths of our workforce, and supports our mission to create high-quality employees diligently and achieve high-quality development.
BEWG has formulated BEWG Occupational Health Management Regulations to clarify our occupational health requirements and the responsibility of each business unit. Taking site-specific hazards and real production conditions into consideration, every unit must undertake occupational health management, and keep occupational health and labour health records. At posts with potential hazards, employees must receive occupational health examinations.
In 2019, the Group updated the BEWG Quality, Environment, Occupational Health Management Manual, to safeguard safe, civilised and harmonious working environments, and eliminate occupational diseases. We also revised the BEWG Regulations on Labour Protection Articles Management, clarifying our requirements regarding labour protection. Project companies were guided to distribute labour protection articles to employees in accordance with their operating types and working conditions.
BEWG explicitly demands every business unit to held training about occupational health and labour protection, and carry out first aid drills, to improve employees’ awareness. At the end of 2019, facing the outbreak of COVID-19, we put employees’ health first, responding promptly and rapidly rearranging work.
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BEWG quickly responds to COVID-19 and safeguards safety
At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, BEWG implemented a daily report system, regularly updated statistics, and analyzed employees who had moved between different places during the Spring Festival period. We documented the movements, isolation and physical condition of employees and reported level-by-level, to identify any abnormalities.
Before work resumes, cleaners thoroughly wash and sterilize the air-conditioning systems of our buildings. Registration, temperature measurement and sterilization of working spaces are implemented, and COVID-19 prevention posters are posted at the entrance of each floor and on electronic boards, reminding employees to protect themselves.
To resume work in an orderly manner and satisfy the PCC and State Council’s requirement for effective COVID-19 prevention and control, BEWG has organized resumption and production by successive business units. We provide employees with masks and regulate the in-out management of employees by measuring temperature, registering movement and logging when employees enter the building, reminding employees to wash hands regularly and wear masks, and restricting numbers in closed places such as elevators and meeting rooms. Meanwhile, we clean and disinfect offices frequently, and guarantee the normal operation of our buildings’ ventilation, water supply and drainage.
To ensure the wellbeing of staff, BEWG introduced the Headquarters Employee Welfare System and increased the supplementary commercial medical insurance plan and supplementary pension plan on the basis of paying statutory social insurance for employees. We also offered subsidies for travelling, catering, communication, heating and high temperature. In addition, BEWG organizes employees to have periodic physical examinations to stay informed on the physical condition of employees.
BEWG believes employees are more than working partners. We view them as friends, and are therefore interested in their opinions and thoughts. We have labor unions in our headquarters, branches and subsidiaries, and encourage employees to express themselves and protect their rights and benefits.
BEWG creates comfortable office environments, with diverse plants to raise employees’ spirits. Our cultural activities aim to balance employees’ work and life, and increase their happiness. Those activities include cultural roadshows, training camps with cultural ambassadors and book sharing.
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Internal management and consulting cultural roadshows
To improve employee engagement and respond to our units’ cultural needs, BEWG held 64 cultural roadshows around the country in 2019. These entertained 4,239 people from the five regions eco- enterprises, and industrial technology research institutes, and featured cultural interviews with more than 130 mid-level managers and above. These interviews gave rise to eight management diagnostic reports.
During the phase of high-quality growth, BEWG uses both cultural roadshows and cultural diagnosis to inspect the cultural health of the Group, and by means of cultural roadshows, promotes cultural blending, builds bridges of communication and trust, improves the cultural dynamics, represent a new way of presenting our ambitions, and enables the implementation of co-creation of BEWG ecology and culture and innovation strategy.
