21 SOCIAL IMPACT EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE OUR MANAGEMENT APPROACH We adhere to rigorous safety policies and practices and reinforce our safety messages through consistent communication and engagement with employees. We promote a proactive and collaborative approach to safety and compliance to help us reach our ultimate goal of zero workplace incidents. Safety is overseen by the Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain, and managed by the Senior Vice President, Environment, Health, Safety + Sustainability (EHS+S). There is a global EHS+S team covering supply chain, research and development (R&D), retail, and offices, with facility-level EHS+S managers reporting into the global team. Our Environmental Health and Safety Policy establishes the standard we require of our workplaces for all employees, contractors, and visitors. Our global EHS+S management team monitors and implements this policy throughout our manufacturing, distribution, and R&D sites. The policy is reviewed on an annual basis, and sites must adopt and sign off on the policy each year. We have a global procedure for hazard and risk assessment that we require all our sites to adhere to and implement. We include safety in our internal audits, which occur at each facility approximately once every two years. New facilities that are the result of acquisitions are assessed for risk, and plans are made to integrate those operations within our existing safety policies and protocols. As part of our Environmental and Safety Management System, we have a process in place to investigate and report workplace incidents, including injuries, property damage, spills, and near misses. The Environmental and Safety Management System also defines criteria for serious accidents and incidents that could result in a high-consequence injury. We comply with legal requirements with regard to whistleblower protections around employees’ rights to remove themselves from, and report on, what they believe are unsafe conditions. Safety incident reports are entered into a central reporting system where a detailed root cause analysis is documented, and corrective actions are identified and tracked to completion. We also have a process where safety alerts and best practices are issued globally for sites to take preventative actions. Our safety program is fully integrated into our environmental management system, which in turn has been certified to ISO 14001 standards at our manufacturing sites. * As part of maintaining our certification, we continuously improve our environmental and safety management and performance. HEALTH AND SAFETY We are a people-first company and strive to provide a healthy and safe workplace for our employees. We are committed to strengthening our safety culture through continuous improvement and innovation and seek to be an industry leader with regard to workplace safety. *Excludes sites that were acquired after January 1, 2020.
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