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Safety
Our ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System reduces workplace risks and creates safer working conditions.
The health and safety of our employees remains an overarching priority and is central to everything we do. We focus on safe working environments and eliminating work-related injuries and illnesses.
All potentially life-threatening incidents and lost time injury frequency (LTIF) rate for the organisation as a whole are reported to the Executive Committee. This information, with a detailed breakdown of injury by plant and open injury reports, is provided to each regional Managing Director on a monthly basis.
Our Corporate Safety Steering Committee is responsible for providing the architecture and direction for the Group’s safety-related programmes, determining our safety KPIs and objectives and helping to facilitate the implementation of our safety strategy.
At a local level, each plant is required to have a Safety Committee that comprises the plant manager, at least one other senior manager, and operators and supervisors working on the plant floor.
The Cross-Divisional Safety Steering Committee brings together members from both operational divisions and the corporate safety team to implement policies and programs approved by the Corporate Safety Steering Committee.
LTIF for the period 2021 to 2023 is presented in the graphic above. Our LTIF has increased slightly over the course of the last two years. The slight increase in LTIF from 2021 to 2022 is primarily driven by our initiative to have more accurate and timely safety reporting by our Asia Pacific plants. Our reporting from Asia Pacific has continued to improve as evidenced by the number of injuries reported in the region compared to previous year. In 2023, we had a foodborne illness event at one of our plants that accounted for a large number of Lost Time Injuries (illness). No employee was seriously effected by this single event. We have followed our protocols and we revisited our canteen and food safety processes and procedures with our third party providers.
We track recordable injuries (i.e., injuries that require medical treatment beyond first aid), lost time injuries (i.e. injuries that result in an employee not being able to come to work the day after occurring), and fractures.