Our health and safety programmes support continuous improvement and reaching our purpose ambitions. For example, our long-term facilitator programme has been maintained during the pandemic with support for production sites and our online train-the-trainer sessions for facilitators increased the global reach. In 2021, 52 facilitators were trained in 9 countries. A further innovative tool to support our safety efforts is a behavioural safety approach called HOP (Human and Organizational Performance), a science-based approach that looks at human errors which can be made and offers employees the information and tools required to make better-informed decisions concerning safety. It builds an understanding of how people perform and how we can build systems that are more tolerant to error. The initial implementation phase in 2021 involved eight sites in the Europe, Africa and Middle East region, and further rollouts are planned. Engagement events continued to raise awareness and promote a strong, positive and long-term culture of health and safety that encompasses everybody, wherever they work. We introduced the idea of ‘heroes’ at sites, recognising the efforts of many people whose actions may go unnoticed yet make a big difference by caring for our people and our place. From the actions of volunteer firefighters in Mexico to the inspiring leadership in the pandemic shown by an individual manager in Iran, we have many people whose actions speak louder than words. TRCR Target TRC Rate . . . .        2021 Safety performance – ‘Everyone Home Safe everyday’ Our occupational health programmes to manage physical risks continued with our focus on ergonomics. With Humantech Industrial Ergonomics software, sites focus on assessing activities and identifying ergonomic risks to improve performance and reduce risk in the workplace. A total of 257 ergonomic assessments were completed at 35 production sites by the end of 2021. In addition, we started trialling wearable technology, called SoterSpine, for improving physical wellbeing in the workplace. This device and app-based training programme enables employees to improve ergonomic practices and avoid physical injury. This first pilot was at our sites in North America, and we plan to extend the use of this technology in 2022. The Humantech platform also enables employees to perform self-assessments of their individual computer workstations, resulting in recommendations for correct workplace set-ups and office habits that help in the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders. In 2021, about 943 employees completed the e-learning course and more than 829 self-assessments were entered throughout the year. Since the programme launched in 2020, more than 2,740 employees have completed the e-learning course and more than 3,000 self-assessments have been entered. In safety training, we launched the third phase of a fire safety campaign, focusing on awareness and building competences through a train-the-trainer model. In 2021, we conducted 23  sessions, with more than 200 employees trained at our operations sites. The campaign is expected to be completed in mid-2022. We drive continuous improvement in health and safety performance with the guidance of our Responsible Care® Management System (RCMS), which helps us in safeguarding and protecting what matters most, not least in protecting our people and ensuring a great work environment. In 2021 under RCMS, we introduced new global standards and guidelines on exposure control, fire safety and machine safety. In helping meet our ambition to reduce our total recordable injury rate (TRCR) by 50% by 2025 compared to the 2018 baseline, we are expanding our focus to take into account all medical cases as well as lost time injuries (LTIs). Our TRCR is the total of lost time injuries, restricted work cases and medial tretment cases per 200,000 hours worked. The number of actual cases increased relative to previous years because of the inclusion of cases from recently acquired companies, yet the reduction in our recordable injury rate points to our success in embedding a positive and long-term culture of health and safety. We are well on track to reaching our target. In 2021 , we have reduced our recordable injury rate by –22 % since 2018 . Givaudan – 2021 Integrated Annual Report Acting as a force for good Pe ople Nu rturing a safe and healthy workplace 99 Acting as a force for good