EmployeeWellbeing

Employee Health and Safety

Gilat aims to improve its employees work environment, contributing to their well-being and personal development and sees great importance in maintaining their health and safety at all time, thus making Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) an integral part of our business decisions.  Gilat has zero tolerance to violence, sexual harassment and any kind of practice which may affect its employees or other business partners health and safety. Our commitment to health and safety is also outlined in our Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Policy that applies to all Gilat employees, products, and service, and which can be found here.

We provide our employees with a safe and healthy workplace in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. We ensure that our facilities and offices are all safeguarded and compliant with all applicable standards and continuously monitor such compliance.

Our employees undergo periodic safety training and procedure guidance ensuring their awareness of risks and providing means for mitigations, including when travelling and working at remote sites.

We are committed to work according to the ISO14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 standards.

We maintain a Disaster Recovery Plan that provides alternatives in cases of emergency to our manufacturing facilities and hubs, as well as to various suppliers.

We strive to operate in a manner minimizing any HSE risk to our customers or to the public and use all appropriate tools, materials, personal protective equipment, and environmental safeguards correctly.

Personal Development, Internal Communication, Feedback

To ensure that our commitments and standards regarding human rights and health and safe labor practice are maintained, we apply the following:

• Regularly scheduled discussions throughout the year to provide an opportunity for managers to meet with each employee to talk about their objectives, provide feedback from colleagues, identify training needs, and talk about their workload.
• An Open-Door policy to management including by holding “round table” sessions with employees around the world to enable open dialogue.
• Performing surveys to allow employees to have their voice heard on various issues related to the workplace and environment, (sometimes anonymously), in order to build corrective action plans based upon feedback.
• Our Code of Ethics includes a whistle blower policy which provides an anonymous means for employees to communicate with various bodies within our company, including our Audit Committee. Therefore, in the event an employee is concerned about any actual or suspected misconduct or violations, including with respect to accounting, auditing, internal control procedures or legal compliance, he/she may contact directly the Company’s Compliance Officer or the Company’s Internal Auditor or the Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company, in order to report any such actual or suspected misconduct or violations in person, or by letter sent through the Company’s internal mail, or through designated anonymous email addresses.
• Encouraging employees to local and international internal mobility within the groups’ subsidiaries.
• Offering training sessions to maintain every employee’s expertise, helping them to adapt their individual and collective skills to changing job roles while supporting the Group’s strategic goals. Training is also in charge of managing the Digital Learning portal, a user-oriented interface available to all Group employees which offers customized experiences and tracks the user’s learning progress.