Health and safety

The health and safety of our people is our highest priority. We aim to be an industry leader in both health and safety outcomes. Our ultimate goal is for all our workplaces to be free from incidents and injuries.

Why this 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

Our global health and safety programme, SafeAgri, enables everyone in our business to focus consistently on creating safer workplaces.

We have a health and safety improvement plan to guide us towards our ultimate goals of zero catastrophic events, zero fatal incidents and an ongoing reduction in our injury rate. The plan has three priorities:

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

This improvement plan and our approach to health and safety create steady and sustainable improvement through three key programmes:

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

We concentrate on doing the things which make a positive impact on safety performance and improve our safety culture. The development of a culture where proactive reporting is not only an expectation of management but also of employees has been a constant focus across our entire business. A proactive approach enables us to identify and correct unsafe conditions or situations to help prevent any incident or injury.

Global programmes and applying business-wide standards, are a key feature of our approach, while retaining the flexibility to deal with local issues as necessary. Each region develops an annual safety improvement plan, focused on achieving global targets as well as improving local factors that contribute to injuries and incidents.

We expect everybody who works for Viterra, both employees and contractors, to take responsibility for their own safety, the safety of their colleagues and the communities in which we operate.

SafeAgri

SafeAgri is our global health and safety programme, focused on eliminating fatalities, preventing injuries and improving our safety culture. Through SafeAgri, we aim to bring about long-term sustainable change by giving everyone the knowledge and tools they need to create safe workplaces and to perform their work safely.