CONTENTS LETTER FROM NOEL WALLACE LETTER FROM ANN TRACY 2025 SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY SUSTAINABILITY HIGHLIGHTS SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE DRIVING SOCIAL IMPACT HELPING MILLIONS OF HOMES PRESERVING OUR ENVIRONMENT Occupational Health Having established Occupational Medical Standards designed to assess medical surveillance requirements for employees potentially exposed to chemical, physical and/or biological agents, we have a formal 2025 target to reduce jobs with chemical exposure. The Occupational Medical Standards work in concert with the Colgate Industrial Hygiene Standards, and our sites are required to adhere to all applicable local legislative requirements. Critical Risk Top 10 In 2019, Colgate launched an enterprise-wide integrated EHS risk reduction strategy to minimize risks that have been linked to adverse events and outcomes. The program focuses on EHS issues and management system elements that have been linked to serious outcomes historically. The program challenges our sites globally to assess the state of the current programs, assess risk and controls in place and ensure the process is sustainable. Wherever possible, sites are expected to increase efforts to mitigate risk through engineering, substitution and/or elimination. Despite the pandemic, most sites are on track toward closing the required elements. Our global sites are working on a multi-year plan to ensure that robust systems and controls are in place to address and mi tigate potential risks. Updates are reported quarterly to a corporate tracking system and presented at budget and business reviews. Reducing Noise, Dust and Chemical Exposures Colgate strives to reduce noise, dust and chemical exposures at our facilities. Our goal is to decrease the number of people who must wear hearing protection or use chemical cartridge respirators to reduce their exposure below the applicable acceptable limits. We have included this metric as an element of our 2025 target to strive for zero harm. Schneider Electrical Assessments In 2021, we continued to look closely at the safety of our electrical systems, including their capacity, resilience and obsolescence. As the electric standard requires a third-party assessment every five years, we contracted with Schneider Electric, a trusted energy management and sustainability consulting firm, to look at redundancy, resilience and condition of our systems to help us identify upstream impacts, as well as traditional elements related to safe electrical work practices. Although COVID-19 has delayed some project completion and obstructed many recommendations from being implemented, some sites are in the process of monitoring and modernization upgrades based on their reports. The remaining sites will be assessed in 2022. Virtual Training Our sites in Latin America and North America modified classroom courses to be delivered as virtual sessions on key topics for salaried and clerical employees. One such session that was particularly well received was our health and safety engineering training. Due to the success of this modular health and safety engineering training, our Europe and the Asia-Pacific Divisions plan to emulate the program in 2022. Latin America also has quarterly events linked to significant risks, where they start with input from executives and then evaluate their gaps and improvement strategies. PAGE 31 2021 SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT