Health and safety

The health and safety of our people is our highest priority. Our ultimate goal is for everyone to return home unharmed every day.

Why it matters

A safe and healthy working environment is essential to the long-term wellbeing of our people and the sustainability of our supply chains.

Our approach

We take a proactive approach to identifying and correcting unsafe conditions or stopping work when the task or environmental conditions have changed, to prevent fatalities and serious injuries. Through a combination of risk awareness, education and training, robust systems, technical expertise and leadership, we have created a culture that values and fosters proactive reporting across the management and employees of our entire business.

We continually manage and reduce risks through effective planning and the integration of our global health and safety programme, SafeAgri throughout our network. SafeAgri enables everyone in our business to focus on creating safer workplaces by applying business-wide standards, while retaining the flexibility to deal with local issues as necessary.

Viterra’s health and safety approach is designed to provide clear direction for the entire network, with local plans focused on achieving continuous improvement in defined health and safety outcomes.

We have three priority areas to provide consistent focus across the network:

• prevent catastrophic events
• eliminate fatal incidents
• reduce the frequency and severity of common injuries.

Our approach to health and safety continues to provide steady and sustained improvement through three key programmes:

• enhancing our risk management capabilities
• developing our safety culture
• ensuring consistent health and safety standards globally.

Each region or business develops an annual safety improvement plan, focused on the implementation of global objectives and programmes within their local setting. The achievement of these annual plans contributes to global improvement targets as well as improving local safety culture and management systems.

Everyone who works for Viterra, whether as an employee or a contractor, is expected to take responsibility for their own safety, the safety of their colleagues and the communities in which we operate.