Ural Turbine Plant (part of Renova Group) intends to spend nearly 11 million RUR on improvements in the employees’ working conditions and enhancing safety this year. This is twice the amount spent a year earlier; the sum has been agreed upon through some recent changes in the company’s collective agreement, the plant’s press officer says.

‘If you want the plant to develop, you need to upgrade the equipment and improve people’s working environment. We have only been able to deal with the primary challenges so far, but as soon as we have done this, we’ll move on to introduce more innovations,’ Ural Turbine Plant CEO Vladimir Ermolaev says.

The tasks that need to be done include restoration of the general ventilation system, providing all the workers with good quality drinking water, renewing the heating system in one of the buildings, replacing the sanitary engineering facilities, and redecorating some of the changing rooms. The collective agreement also states that 50% of employees’ kindergarten and nursery school fees will be covered by the plant in case the parent’s salary comes to less than 1.5 average company wages. If the parent is single, the fee will be covered by the plant in full, the plant’s press officer reports.