Lidl Hellas achieved a landmark success at the Health & Safety Awards 2026, winning the top honour, Occupational Health & Safety Team of the Year, among 10 awards in total: one Winner title, four Gold, four Silver and one Bronze. The awards confirmed the excellence of its pioneering practices in workplace health, corporate safety and wellbeing.
The leading awards were:
WINNER Award - From Compliance to a Culture of Prevention: A holistic management model that redefines corporate safety culture. Through digital guidance accessible via QR codes, state-of-the-art equipment (such as LifePad CPR guidance devices) and systematic preventive maintenance, the company significantly reduced risks and cut paper use in safe-working procedures by 100%.
GOLD – Training as a Cornerstone of a Safety Culture: A digital, personalised learning system with individual digital training records for every employee. Ensuring full accessibility — including translating materials into Hindi for its multicultural workforce — the company consistently achieves a participation rate of more than 99%, while also saving thousands of working hours and natural resources.
GOLD – Innovation in the Digital Management of Workplace Accidents (POSH): The introduction of the pioneering, web-based and mobile-first POSH platform (Platform Organizational Safety Health) fully digitised the incident management and forecasting cycle. The platform uses data analytics to prevent accidents, cutting reporting time by 75% and repeat incidents by 20%.
GOLD – Shield of Safety: A Holistic Emergency Management & Business Continuity Ecosystem: A dynamic, “live” network of 110 specialised Emergency Response Plans (ERP) covering all the company’s stores, logistics centres and offices. Combining digital preparedness through e-learning with the physical availability of guides in the field (Point of Need) ensures uninterrupted business continuity and helps staff remain calm in every crisis scenario.
GOLD – Turning Dialogue into Behaviour to Strengthen Prevention: A shift from the theoretical enforcement of rules to interactive, hands-on empowerment. Through initiatives such as Safety Spotlights (targeted on-site discussions) and Behavioural Dialogue, the company cut incidents linked to the most common sources of risk by 60%, with employees’ perceived safety score at 89%.
Lidl Hellas continues to invest strategically in technological excellence, digital transformation and a people-centred culture, demonstrating that safety and prevention are central to the sustainable growth of its business.