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BAKKAVOR ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2012
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ann savage
group technical director sits on management board
MAJOR ACCIDENTS PER
100,000 EMPLOYEES
HSE Food and
Drink industry
average
26%
TOTAL ACCIDENTS PER
100,000 EMPLOYEES
year-on-year
08 09 10 11 12 08 09 10 11 12
10%
year-on-year
central technical team
food safety, health & safety, environment, food science &
microbiology, technical innovation and agronomy expertise
monitors and supports
adherence to standards
co-ordinates and drives
continuous improvement
food safety, health and safety
& environment initiatives
Our Group Technical Director, Ann Savage, is supported by the Central
Technical team who provide specialist expertise in the key areas of
food safety, food science and microbiology, health and safety, technical
innovation and agronomy. The team’s role is to embed and monitor
sound CSR practices and standards across the business.
FOOD SAFETY
Millions of people eat our products every day. We have a duty to make
food that is safe for people to eat and, as we are entrusted to make
products under our customers’ private labels, we have a duty to respect
and protect the integrity of these brands. We have policies and standards
in place which recognise legal and customer requirements.
Measures and performance
We use quality management systems and tested procedures to guide
our businesses on the high standards we expect. We utilise several
verification processes including scientific testing in our own laboratories,
announced and unannounced audits, and management reviews to
ensure that we do what we say we do. Information from our verification
processes is fed back into our quality management systems and we
take corrective and preventative action when required.
The Bakkavor Management Board is accountable for the effective
implementation of our Food Safety Policy; and the Group’s food safety
performance is presented at each Management Board meeting.
HEALTH AND SAFETY (H&S)
Our responsibility is to take every reasonable step to secure and protect
the health and safety of our employees and those people who are
working on our premises.
We have four health and safety measures as required by law and which
we believe are the most useful to report in our businesses: major
accidents, reportable injuries, total accidents and near misses.
Measures and performance
One of the key H&S measures is Major Accidents per 100,000
employees and in 2012 our performance improved by 26% year on year.
Historically we have performed significantly better than the average for
the food and drink industry and we will continue to track our progress
against this third-party measure. Our total number of accidents also fell
by 10% in 2012 compared to the previous year.
ENVIRONMENT
We are committed to complying with relevant legislation and managing
the direct impacts of our businesses on the environment. Our
Environmental Policy focuses on business improvement initiatives in five
key areas over which we have immediate control: Energy, Waste, Water,
Packaging and Transport.
Measures and performance
In the UK, we measure the amount of total waste, in percentage
and absolute terms, which we divert from landfill. We achieved a
significant step change in improvement when we first started to use this
performance measure in 2009 through a variety of initiatives such as
waste segregation and anaerobic digestion of food waste. In 2012, as in
the previous year, we diverted over 98% of our waste away from landfill.
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