A year in review Economic / Governance Environment Social Appendix Employee safety, health & wellbeing Disclosure 403 – 4 Communication Spain, U.K, Brazil, France and Switzerland. In 2021, 52 new Worker participation, consultation, Good communication demonstrates commitment, deals with facilitators were trained in 9 countries, and an additional and communication on occupational concerns and questions, raises awareness, provides information, 13 trainers were trained through our online train-the-trainer health and safety motivates and drives improvement. Lines of communication are sessions. There has been a delay in the accreditation of 11 new Each Givaudan site must have an EHS Committee (SEC). defined, internally and externally to ensure a good flow of trainers because of the pandemic. As a consequence, Convened regularly, it governs and provides a forum for information within the organisation and to communicate implementation has been delayed in the affected sites. We plan exchange on EHS topics relevant to the site. The members of necessary information on occupational health and safety. to complete these accreditations and continue implementation the SEC represent all site activities and perform high-level in APAC in 2022. reviews of EHS requirements, assess options, costs and Internal communication processes are established and maintained consequences of potential measures and decide on measures throughout the organisational structures. Programmes are in Generally, training is provided on a site-to-site basis and is and activities to be taken to improve EHS performance where place to enable employees to ask questions about the available in a range of local languages such as Bahasa, required or recommended. organisation, express opinions and stimulate a dialogue while Hungarian, Japanese and Italian. addressing concerns and sharing information. Knowledge-sharing The committee must meet at least once a quarter and should be with peers, internally and externally at all levels, is essential to our Employees are trained in all of the relevant EHS standards and made up of the site head as the Chair, the EHS Manager as the success and is actively supported and promoted. we ensure that people are able to perform according to these secretary and members composed of other relevant site standards. Our approaches also include safety leadership functions such as the production manager, engineering manager Decisions, actions and outcomes of any and all reviews are training for line managers and a set of Safety Ground Rules. and other employee representatives that are either appointed or recorded and communicated to all stakeholders involved or Every location receives a yearly pre-defined local safety target elected, depending on local law. In the Europe Africa and Middle affected by the review or incident and, where required, that is aligned with and contributes to the global objective in East region, for example, in some countries including France, regulatory and/or legal bodies are informed. accident reductions. Our EHS Excellence Programme aims to Germany and the UK, the works council or a dedicated team of develop the EHS culture across Givaudan and it has been works council members (delegated by the trade unions) needs Disclosure 403 – 5 introduced to 38 sites in 23 different countries. This year has to be informed. In other countries such as Hungary and India, Worker training on occupational health been focused on reviewing the model, the maturity model and the safety committee is represented by Company/Site Manager, and safety the implementation approach. No additional sites were added, representatives from line management, representatives from Our goal at Givaudan is to eliminate accidents and get everyone but after pilot projects in Vernier and Pomacle, both started in the works council, and other production and non-production home safe every day. We engage our employees in actively October, we will finalise the programme and move on to the employees. Similar legal requirements also exist in some contributing to this target through awareness campaigns and next phase of implementation. This will involve repeat countries in the APAC region. In Indonesia, for example, it is specific training programmes and look to ingrain these reflexes workshops at the 38 sites and rollout to the acquisition sites. legally required to have an EHS Committee Team. This into our very culture. Overall, our programmes help embed a Committee Team consists of representatives from each culture of health and safety at work and at home, and include In this way, our EHS mission goes beyond rules and processes department and meets monthly. In Malaysia, and as required by workshops, awareness campaigns and engagement events. by aiming to empower all employees to take shared law for every workplace with more than 40 employees, we have Our EHS Facilitators play a key role in engaging their peers responsibility. Our goal is to enhance this EHS mindset in the a Safety & Health Committee in Melaka and for the GBS office. through hazard awareness, risk reduction and toolbox talks. So daily activities of all employees so it becomes second nature The committee involves employer representatives and far, we have trained over 200 facilitators. In 2021, we started as well as the right thing to do. Safety underlies everything employees from different departments. rolling out the programme in China and India as well as we do and we are now building on our commitments with reinforcing the role in other countries including in the U.S., two recently introduced purpose goals – before 2025, we will 96 Givaudan — 2021 GRI Sustainability Report