Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
Nutrition, health
and wellness
Rural development
Water
Environmental
sustainability
Human rights
and compliance
Our
people
G4-56, Employment G4-DMA, Freedom of association and collective bargaining G4-DMA
Our commitments
We shared a number of public commitments in 2012, and
continue to publish our progress against them every year. They
reflect the material issues of our business and help shape our
strategy for continuous improvement. We have revised three
existing commitments (see below) to reflect ongoing progress:
• Ensure all Nestlé employees are covered by a certified
Safety and Health Management System;
• Enhance gender balance in our workforce;
• Provide training on Corporate Business Principles, Nutrition
and Environmental Sustainability; and
• Roll out the Global Youth Initiative across all
our operations.
We successfully embedded learning around Creating Shared
Value into all of our courses delivered during 2015 at our
international training centre in Vevey, Rive-Reine. Now we
seek to do the same with learning around the Nestlé Corporate
Business Principles. We are also rolling out the Nestlé Youth
initiative beyond our European operations.
Our progress against the commitment objectives is indicated
throughout the chapter using the following icons:
Achieved
In progress
Not yet achieved
New objective
Governance and management systems
Human Resources
Our Human Resources (HR) structure is based on three
dedicated areas:
• Centres of expertise – provide specialised services to the
business;
• Business partners – embed HR strategies within specific
areas of the business; and
• Employee services – provide HR support to all business
functions.
Strategic responsibility for governance lies with Peter Vogt,
Deputy Executive Vice President, Head of Human Resources
and Centre Administration, while final accountability rests with
our Executive Board and our CEO.
Safety and health management
Our current Safety and Health Roadmap towards Excellence
sets out Nestlé’s strategic vision for safety and health
performance until the end of 2015. It successfully steered the
direction and focus of our activities on a global level over the
last four years.
The roadmap has helped us develop and deploy
programmes designed to reduce our key risks. The risks were
identified earlier, based on analysis of our injury and illness
data and our management’s ambition to make a step change
in terms of our safety and health performance.
In 2015, we have revised our mandatory standard for Safety,
Health and Environmental Incident Reporting & Investigation,
providing a framework for more consistent reporting. It
ensures we continue to have a clear and well-established
procedure for defining and reporting all types of incidents.
We track and analyse our safety and health performance
regularly during the year, using a combination of leading and
lagging indicators. In addition, incidents that are classified as
major (as per our procedure) are communicated within 24
hours to senior management at local sites, as well as at the
Group head office. This initial announcement is followed by a
detailed investigation report.
In our monthly Executive Board meetings a review of work
related fatalities is included. In addition, all new global
programmes are approved by a member of the EBM at final
draft stage. This year, our Executive Board approved the new
Nestlé Framework for Employee Health. It helps to structure
and focus existing efforts, promote proven practices, ensure
cross-fertilisation and guide future developments in our
markets and at a global level.
We leverage digital communications by regularly posting
relevant safety and health articles, films and initiatives around
the world onto our Chatter (internal social media platform)
group called We make Nestlé Safe. It is an open digital forum
for sharing ideas and global best practices.
Our policies and standards
We ask all our people to take pride in living by the values and
principles of Nestlé, regardless of their position in the
organisation. It is an approach supported by a number of
policies, codes and principles, designed to engender mutual
respect, personal development and safe working. They are
as follows:
• The Expatriation Policy;
• The Flexible Work Environment at Nestlé;
• The Nestlé Code of Business Conduct;
• The Nestlé Corporate Business Principles;
• The Nestlé Employee Relations Policy;
• The Nestlé Enterprise Risk Management Principles
(internal);
• The Nestlé Human Resources Policy;
• The Nestlé Management and Leadership Principles;
• The Nestlé Maternity Protection Policy;
• The Nestlé on the Move Policy;
• The Nestlé Recognition Framework;
• The Nestlé Policy on Conditions of Work and Employment;
• The Nestlé Policy on Safety and Health at Work;
• The Nestlé Supplier Code; and
• The Nestlé Total Rewards Policy.
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