Today, health and safety doesn’t only mean reducing illness and workplace accidents, but safeguarding and boosting our people's wellbeing. Given our purpose to protect, heal and nurture, we put this responsibility at the heart of our business.
This isn’t just something we do for own employees, but for people across our value chain: health and safety is a central part of our human rights work, and our ambition for a fairer society.
Health, safety & wellbeing
Health, safety & wellbeing Download full reportOur 2022 performance
Our aims:
- Continued reduction of lost work day accident rate (LWDAR)
- Continued reduction of total recordable frequency rate (TRFR)
- Continued reduction of occupational illness frequency rate (OIFR)
- All manufacturing sites to be covered by Group certification to IS0 45001
Note: All accident reporting KPIs are based on 100,000 hours worked.
1 Assured by ERM CVS as part of their limited assurance scope; for details, see our Sustainability governance, reporting and assurance insight here.
2 5 occupational health cases were reported in 2021.
3 All our manufacturing sites were covered by Group certification to ISO 45001 with the exception of one site newly acquired in 2021.
57%1
reduction in LWDAR since 2012
57%1
68%1
reduction in TRFR since 2013
68%1
0.011,2
base year OIFR rate
0.011,2
98%3
of manufacturing sites covered to ISO 45001 by 2021
98%3
Restarting on-site health and safety audits
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we ran virtual health and safety assessments. While they went some way towards meeting our needs, in-person audits are more effective. So, restarting site visits was a priority this year, helping us assess health and safety standards, including potential risks and hazards, like manual handling and working at height.
