Care
At Givaudan, our success is built on genuine care for our people.
By offering support to our people through all aspects of their lives, we are helping them to have the physical energy, mental focus and emotional drive necessary to power our business and also succeed in their activities outside of work.
Before 2025, we will improve how we care for all of our people
TARGET
Before 2025,
everyone on our sites will have access
to mental and physical health initiatives,
tools and training
STATUS 2023
82%1
Actions and measures
Providing access to mental and physical health initiatives, tools and training for all employees:
- Employee assistance programme
- Setting Workplace Wellbeing Standards: baseline setting and commitment to annual review
Percentage of sites with more than 20 employees and who participated in the 2023 data collection exercise. This is now the baseline percentage.
TARGET
Before 2025,
we will reduce our total
recordable case rate by 50%
(baseline 2018)
STATUS 2023
– 47%
Actions and measures
- Investing in our plant and technical equipment
- Further developing our Responsible Care Management System
- Conducting periodic assessment of risk and control on site
- Expanding our behavioural safety programme: advanced safety leadership training and comprehensive worker trainings on health and safety
Read more on our 2023 DE&I actions and measures
This ambition is being enriched with learnings from events and cross-functional training sessions for professionals in Givaudan. This safety initiative is part of our broader environment, health and safety (EHS) strategy and includes training as well as an opportunity to interact and discuss these topics with peers across the Company.
Nurturing a positive safety culture
A good health and safety culture is critical to reducing the number of work-related injuries. At Givaudan, we uphold this culture by actively nurturing the concept of safety, and by caring for each other, our people and our environment.
Our goal is to get ‘Everyone Home Safe, Every Day’, and awareness campaigns and training programmes have helped instil this mantra into our Company culture. We go beyond rules and processes to empower all employees to take shared responsibility.
Our active focus on safety is reflected in high safety statistics. In our engagement survey, scores related to caring for the safety of others reinforce how important this topic is in the organisation:
- 91% of employees said that they are comfortable reporting a safety issue;
- 87% agreed that safety is a priority at Givaudan;
- 85% felt that safety problems are addressed if they occur.
These results show the dedication of our people in making our Company a safe place to work.
Investing in our people’s wellbeing
We have developed a wellbeing strategy that focuses on four key pillars in order to take care of our people in a holistic way. We believe this contributes to fulfilled, happier employees that enjoy a rich life at work and at home.
Physical wellbeing
Supporting our people to build and maintain good physical health and habits.
Supporting the awareness, prevention and/or treatment of physical injury and disease.
Social wellbeing
Enabling and encouraging our people to build positive relationships at work.
Enabling our people to feel comfortable with their sense of belonging at work.
Financial wellbeing
Guiding our people to manage their finances effectively and appropriately.
Educating our people on planning for the future and for unforeseen circumstances.
Mental wellbeing
Supporting our people to manage the normal stresses of life and work and enabling them to make positive contributions.
Supporting the awareness, prevention and/or treatment of mental ill health.
Boosting wellbeing from colleague to colleague
As part of our purpose we have the goal that by 2025 everyone on our sites will have access to mental and physical health initiatives, tools and training (our current status is 82%). Our ‘Happier + Healthier’ Givaudan programme is one of the actions that we’re taking to ensure that on each of our sites we have wellbeing programmes and support that meet local needs. Our Workplace Wellbeing Leads are bringing this to life.
“Our actions are focused on embedding positive wellbeing habits into our day-to-day life and supporting our people to be the best versions of themselves through all aspects of their lives.”
Martha, Head of Employee Experience
