Employee Health and Safety

We have continued to extend ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management system certifications to more of our operations. Our EHS management system now covers all of Huawei's operational activities and employees. While meeting, and in many cases exceeding, the EHS-related requirements of local laws and regulations, customers, employees, and other stakeholders throughout our own operations, we have also established a supplier EHS development and management mechanism and issued the supplier EHS guidelines. We also identify supplier benchmarks and share best practices to drive the entire supply chain to jointly fulfill EHS responsibilities.

While continuously improving the performance of our EHS management system, we also placed greater emphasis on EHS risk control in our operations in 2025. We have introduced management practices such as Process Safety Management (PSM), established business-specific EHS expert groups, and continuously drawn on cutting-edge EHS management techniques from the industry, as well as academic and research institutions. These efforts have helped us develop and optimize our EHS risk prevention and control framework, and establish a three-tier defense encompassing inherently safer design, process safety management, and emergency response mechanisms. This has helped ensure the sound and rapid development of our businesses. We also implement internal and external environmental management standards, place a strong emphasis on employee health, and ensure the safety of all personnel entering our workplaces. These management requirements have been integrated into our business processes alongside a tiered set of standards.

Across all of our business and functional domains and operating locations, Huawei has appointed dedicated staff responsible for managing EHS, established EHS management organizations and an EHS expert system, created a corporate EHS capability system, and steadily reinforced management responsibilities at every level. Through capability building and continuous management improvement, we continue to enhance the maturity of our business capability systems. Employees are encouraged to report EHS issues, and feedback channels and incentive mechanisms have been established in core business areas.

Story | Strengthening EHS leadership and culture and applying AI to make delivery safer

Huawei has established a comprehensive EHS management system built on top-down commitment from our leadership and bottom-up participation by all employees. We have leveraged regular training, awareness campaigns, incentive programs, and technologies such as AI to systematically ensure the safety and quality of engineering delivery.

Safety leadership: Huawei emphasizes leadership's role in EHS management and has cultivated a culture of safety using incentive programs. In 2025, Huawei's delivery managers conducted over 2,400 site visits to demonstrate safety leadership in practice, reflecting the high priority placed on safety management by senior management. Managers at representative offices also personally presented trophies and awards to outstanding tower workers, recognizing those who strictly followed safety procedures and contributed to continuous process improvement. These incentive programs have improved these workers' engagement.

Safety culture activities: In 2025, we held more than 200 engineering project safety awareness campaigns globally, and organized over 10 Family Day and Tower Worker Day events in the China, Asia-Pacific, and Northern Africa regions. Additionally, we held more than 100 safety month activities and emergency drills, and invited first-aid experts from the Red Cross to share essential life-saving knowledge and provide hands-on training on the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), so that employees will be better prepared for emergencies.

EHS training and practice: In 2025, Huawei organized EHS training programs across seven of its regions, reaching over 1,000 Huawei employees. We also delivered EHS training to subcontractors at 65 hardware installation sites across 45 countries. These sessions recorded 19,000 attendances in 2025, and our online EHS classes and exams logged an additional 88,000 completions.

EHS training and practice at a hardware installation site

AI application: Since the beginning of 2025, Huawei has further improved the accuracy and efficiency of AI-assisted EHS management in project delivery. AI-assisted EHS audits powered by multimodal large models have been implemented at 94% of our customers' network sites. We now use AI to identify all high EHS risks in project delivery, enabling unobtrusive EHS checks during delivery operations. By applying AI-based situational awareness and key action tagging, we have achieved targeted risk control, quickly and accurately identifying high-risk locations in real time.

AI-based situational awareness for EHS risk checks

Huawei has established a comprehensive health and safety assurance system and continued to improve workplaces for its employees. This system is intended to help every Huawei employee around the world receive health promotion support in addition to comprehensive medical coverage. Our employee insurance packages include social security, commercial insurance, and company-sponsored medical assistance. Our health promotion programs include regular health checkups, access to health centers and consultation services, global medical emergency response services, and healthy lifestyle support. In 2025, Huawei invested CNY20.99 billion in employee benefits.

Huawei's spending on employee benefits from 2023 to 2025 (unit: CNY billion)

Story | Benchmarking against the WELL Building Standard to continuously improve employee workspaces

Huawei has fully integrated sustainability requirements into its office improvement projects. This includes incorporating health, safety, and environmental protection requirements into site selection, design, and operational standards. These principles have been implemented across the full office improvement lifecycle, from planning, design, and construction, to operations, maintenance, decommissioning, and recycling. Through these efforts, we demonstrate our care for employees while also fulfilling our social responsibility to the planet.

In July 2025, Huawei's Chengdu OCG office, covering an area of approximately 30,000 square meters, received the WELL Gold Certification. We fully considered the 10 WELL concepts, including air, water, light, sound, thermal comfort, and materials, during site planning, selection, design, construction, and operations. By applying sustainability principles to the design and operations of the workplace, the project has significantly improved the office environment and received wide recognition from employees. In line with circular economy principles, the project successfully repurposed 21,000 square meters of raised flooring, along with 930 pieces of equipment and facilities from previous sites, including air conditioners, decorative lighting, and televisions, as well as 105 pieces of furniture such as lounge sofas, bookshelves, and quiet pods. This reuse cut material consumption equivalent to a reduction of 746 metric tons in carbon emissions.

Additionally, our TRX office in Malaysia has adopted the WELL Platinum Certification as its benchmark, to comprehensively improve employee health and well-being. Through a systematic approach spanning spatial design and operational management, the office has created a people-centered healthy workplace.

• Office hardware: The office uses 100% LED lighting alongside professional daylight simulators, to ensure that every employee enjoys abundant, comfortable, and natural light.
• Climate controls: A real-time indoor environment monitoring system has been deployed to improve air quality and make workspace health visible to all.
• Operations: Meticulous, health-focused care facilities are provided, such as break areas stocked with a variety of healthy food options, including vegan and allergen-free choices, and an indoor vegetable wall employees can harvest their own food from, encouraging them to engage in greener lifestyles. Regular group fitness classes such as Pilates, health-themed lectures, vaccination programs, and health screenings are also organized to support employees' comprehensive physical well-being.
• Medical services: An on-site health center and a resident nursery team are available, along with mental health assessments and a mental health support system that provides employees with timely and compassionate psychological care. By integrating the WELL Building Standard into our space, services, and activities, we strive to foster a workplace environment that supports the holistic well-being of our workforce.

Story | Expanding access to first aid resources for physical and mental health to create a safe and supportive workplace

In 2025, Huawei launched a series of First Aid Day events themed "Safeguarding Hearts, Saving Lives in Seconds", which nearly 70,000 employees participated in. The Huawei Campus One-Touch First Aid app has also been installed nearly 150,000 times, which improves employees' first aid awareness and skills while fostering a culture of mutual care and support.

We have engaged professional third-party organizations to conduct blind assessments of first-aid capabilities across Huawei's facilities in China, identify areas for improvement, and enable continued data-driven operations. About 1,300 AEDs have been installed across Huawei's global workplaces based on precise traffic flow analysis and personnel density assessments, in accordance with the three-minute accessibility standard. With these AEDs, employees can quickly access lifesaving equipment in emergencies, which maximizes our ability to respond within the golden hour for medical treatment.

We have also partnered with professional health management organizations to offer employees over 100 health activities and lectures, as well as round-the-clock health and psychological counseling services. Our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) covers topics such as personal growth, interpersonal communication, career development, relationship and family issues, parenting, and prenatal and postnatal care. In 2025, the EAP further improved its video counseling and real-time emotional support services, with nearly 5,000 hours of counseling provided to employees throughout the year, supporting both their physical and mental well-being.