Training and development  [ Return towards  Air Liquide and you  ]

Air Liquide’s growth in new economic zones in the world goes hand in hand with the arrival of a large number of new employees who must be trained in the specific dimensions of our businesses and the Group’s culture.

In this new context, the decentralized training approach, favored until now to meet the needs and particularities of local units, must now be supported by a more global approach. That is why the Group is developing, on a worldwide basis, training modules adapted to its different employees.

Seventy training modules have been created and organized into 18 areas for the different types of jobs in the Group. Other programs are being designed, for example, for the teams that work in gas production units. Air Liquide wants to strengthen these actions so that by 2009, each employee can benefit from an average of at least three days of training a year.

Furthermore, in 2009, the Group is going to create an Air Liquide university to help strengthen its employees’ development in the gas business as well as in management.