Health and safetyHealth and safety is of paramount importance to us

Ensuring the safety of our employees around the world is a primary concern.

We are committed to continually improving our health and safety performance through training and raising awareness of safety in the workplace.

Our Group Executive Committee and senior management conduct regular health and safety visits to our distribution centres and trade counters to reinforce the importance of this vital issue.

Our objective is to achieve long term behavioural change, promoting good practice and behaviours amongst all employees, regardless of whether they are office-based, field-based or work at our distribution centres and trade counters.

Our long term aspirational goal is for 'zero lost time accidents', with stretching annual targets to deliver safety improvements.

To raise awareness, we have improved the reporting of near-misses to reduce the potential of accidents happening and introduced regional health and safety forums reporting to a global health and safety committee.

We set health and safety objectives for all departments and managers worldwide to broaden participation in the health and safety effort from the wider management population.