A year in review Economic / Governance Environment Social Appendix Employee safety, health & wellbeing We approach and help employees with ways of working We also continue to ensure the compliance of our Disclosure 403 – 9 through our Spark your Senses Learning and Development classification and labelling for all products (raw materials, Work-related injuries Newsletter, our Humantech Office Ergonomics tool, our IT intermediates and finished products) that we sell, produce In helping meet our ambition to reduce our total recordable collaboration tool guides as well as local HR and EHS team and ship. We harmonise and optimise packages and labels. injury rate (TRCR) by 50% by 2025 compared to the 2018 support. We continued to provide support and resources for baseline, we are expanding our focus to take into account all employees in 2021. Many regions held training sessions to help We review our labelling in relation with industry association medical cases as well as lost time injuries (LTIs). Our TRCR is employees to be more effective with virtual working and a flex standards annually. The labelling manual is a coordinated the total of lost time injuries, restricted work cases and medical working toolkit is also being introduced locally to support effort of the Fragrance and Flavour industry and results from treatment cases per 200,000 hours worked. The number of employees and managers. This year we published three issues a review of classification and labelling information for our actual cases increased relative to previous years because of the of the Spark your Senses Learning and Development newsletter ingredients, covering both synthetics and natural complex inclusion of cases from recently acquired companies, yet the to support colleagues during COVID-19. They focused on how substances. Internal and external stakeholders impacted by reduction in our recordable injury rate points to our success in listening is a great way to support each other and help each changes were informed in advance and the new classification embedding a positive and long-term culture of health and other during this time; finding balance and staying connected, and labelling information was updated in June. We have seen safety. We are well on track to reaching our target. with a focus on addressing Webex fatigue and, finally, an issue very smooth and successful implementation. on embracing digital learning, where we celebrated a year as we transitioned to remote/virtual learning because of the The Product Stewardship Team also reviews Safety Data Sheets In 2021, we have reduced our pandemic. In addition, we continue to support our colleagues (SDS) and is continuously improving this documentation in with the Humantech office ergonomics tool that works both at relation with industry association standards, new regulations recordable injury rate by –22% work and in the home office. We also provided IT collaboration or additional information. The Safety Data Sheets (SDS) mainly since 2018. tools for continuous development and tips and hints. provide information on chemical identity & physical/chemical properties; hazards for health, safety, environment; preventive Disclosure 403 – 7 and emergency response measures, disposal instructions as Prevention and mitigation of occupational well as medical advice. SDS of raw materials are provided to Disclosure 403 – 10 health and safety impacts directly linked by our employees, while those of finished goods are supplied to Work-related ill health business relationships our customers. We have a number of measures for helping our employees avoid We look to prevent and mitigate occupational health and safety work-related ill health. The exposure control programme helps impacts linked by business relationships through a number of We look to prevent and mitigate occupational health and find the limit of exposure for each chemical and facilitate the approaches. We ask, for example, certain suppliers to carry out safety impacts linked by business relationships through a development of engineering or other techniques to lessen it. an audit – the Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit, SMETA – as number of approaches. We continue, for instance, to ensure validation of their commitment to our key responsible sourcing the compliance of our classification and labelling for all We have been extending industrial and office ergonomics pillar of Health & Safety. More information can be found in the products (raw materials, intermediates and finished products) initiatives as described above. Such measures allow us to reduce chapter on Responsible Sourcing & Traceability. that we sell, produce and ship. We harmonise and optimise incidents and improve the long-term health and wellbeing of all packages and labels. employees. Ergonomic assessment in operations is carried out by experts, while self-assessment in the office is carried out via digital training. 99 Givaudan — 2021 GRI Sustainability Report