Vetoquinol Universal Registration Document 2019

2 STATEMENT OF NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE Overall health, safety and environmental policy 38   Vetoquinol  Universal Registration Document 2019  Financial report 2.4.2 Health and safety in the workplace 2.4.2.1 The Vigilance behavioral program One major focus of our accident prevention policy is indi- vidual behavior and management leadership. For this purpose, an in-company program called “Vigilance” was launched in 2018. The program has two goals: (i) develop the commitment and visible involvement of management in terms of safety, and (ii) enhance employee awareness of the signi- ficance of behavior in causing and preventing accidents. The program was piloted at the Lure manufacturing faci- lity in 2018. In 2019, it was rolled out in the French R&D and support departments and at the manufacturing faci- lities in Poland, Brazil, Italy and Canada. The program will be launched in the sales facilities outside France in 2020. The plan aims to establish a so-called Shared Vigi- lance culture throughout the Group by 2012-2022: each manager and employee has a duty to act if they witness behavior that might constitute a safety risk, as identified through the practice of safety dialog. In keeping with this policy, in 2020 Vetoquinol decided to allocate part of the individual bonus awarded to Group senior executives to the Group’s key safety targets (lost- time industrial accident frequency rate, number of risk situations escalated, annual HSE action plan completion rate). 2.4.2.2 Specific action carried out in 2019 At the Magny-Vernois plant (Group head office and the Group’s largest site in terms of size and operations), employee mental health is a prevention focus: a psy- chosocial risk (PSR) committee has been in place for a number of years. It comprises members of staff, management and the medical department, and meets quarterly or, if a risk arises, upon request. A report on its work is prepared at each Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee (CHSCT) meeting. Furthermore, in 2016 and 2017, all managers received PSR training. In 2018, the remit of the PSR Committee was redefined in order to place greater emphasis on prevention, by seeking to reduce contributory risk factors in advance and mitigating the impact on individual health. Meanwhile, a preliminary PSR survey was conducted in order to identify priority risk areas and factors. This was followed up in 2019 by the launch of a detailed diagnostic process covering risk areas identified in France. The road hazard prevention program launched in 2017 in France was continued in 2019. This program includes a collective awareness-raising module, by means of monthly videos sent to all employees, a drivers’ charter for staff members that use company vehicles, an on-road driving training module/audit and finally an on-line acci- dent reporting tool. Initially rolled out in France, this program will be extended to the other Group entities in 2020. A large number of preventive measures have been imple- mented at Group facilities, mainly to follow up internal HSE audits. A selection of these are as follows: • Bertinoro (Italy): addition of movable retention basins and intervention kits to deal with warehouse and waste area leakage, purchase of oxygen detectors to increase production staff protection against the risk of anoxia (due to the use of nitrogen), • Gorzów (Poland): improvements in the emergency eva- cuation process via the addition of new alarm systems and clearer on-site firefighting equipment signs, • Magny-Vernois (France): organization of a Safety Day for all staff on September 6 based on entertaining interactive workshops, launch of plan to reinforce fire protection in the production areas, • Princeville (Canada): installation of hydrogen and acetylene gas leak detectors in the laboratories, ins- tallation of new light displays in pedestrian-forklift collision risk areas inside production areas, • Tarare (France): new pedestrian and vehicle signpos- ting in outside areas, installation of an explosion vent on a powder mixer, • Mairipora (Brazil): installation of anchor points on the roof of the production building, new procedure for improving safety at isolated workstations, • Fort Worth logistics complex (USA): separation of pedestrian and forklift thoroughfares via new ground markings, new training program for staff exposed to chemical risks,