Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
Nutrition, health
and wellness
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Our
people
Occupational health and safety G4-DMA, G4-LA6
Machinery
We improved our approach to machinery safety with new
assessment tools during 2014, as a response to unacceptably
high numbers of machinery-related injuries. Our Machinery
Safety programme has been rolled out further and several
regional workshops were held in 2015 (see map on previous
page), in addition to those held earlier in 2014. Through these
efforts, we have developed a more comprehensive and
systematic approach to machinery safety, including machine
guarding and safe methods of intervention. We are also
striving to strengthen the same in new business acquisitions.
Electricity
Nestlé’s standards include safe work practices necessary for
the practical safeguarding of personnel (Nestlé, contractors
and the public) during the installation, inspection, operation,
maintenance and demolition of electric conductors, electric
equipment, signalling and communication conductors and
equipment, for all Nestlé facilities.
Our electrical safety programmes are designed to maintain
a safe and reliable electrical system for our facilities and
protect employees and the public. We strive to accomplish
these objectives through the following key activities:
• Support key Group activities through technical standards,
guidelines and specifications;
• Competence building by providing training on electrical
engineering-related subjects;
• Dissemination of relevant technical information to the global
engineering community; and
• Providing technical support to our market and factory
engineering teams.
We are continuing the deployment of a third-party electrical
audit programme across our factories. The electrical
distribution systems mandatory gap audit allows us to identify
and minimise the risks of electrical failures, which can lead to
injuries, loss of production and damage of production
equipment or buildings. It also helps to organise an action plan
for the modernisation of the electrical distribution network and
provides justification for capital expenditures. At the end of the
audit, a report is created with technical observations and
deficiencies, including critical electrical equipment that is
obsolete and a modernisation plan with recommendations for
corrective actions. We plan to assess all our factories that are
older than 10 years within the next three years.
Strategic priority 3: health management
Our roadmap recognises that safety and health are
fundamentally interconnected. Healthier employees are more
resilient and resistant to injury and illness. They are also more
engaged, demonstrate higher performance and live more
fulfilling lives. We are strengthening our occupational health
programmes by focusing on illness identification, investigation,
ergonomics, stress, resilience and wellness. Responsibility for
leading the individual focus areas is shared between the
Human Resources and Safety and Health functions.
The Nestlé Framework for Employee Health
The new framework comprises three pillars:
• Learn: helping employees enhance their health
knowledge and become passionate Nutrition, Health
and Wellness ambassadors;
• Feel: helping employees access information about –
and take ownership of – their own health; and
• Choose: helping employees develop and maintain
healthy lifestyles.
It includes a foundation element of occupational health,
reflecting the need to continue enhancing working
conditions, protecting our people at work and ensuring
compliance with company and legal requirements.
A global networking group of 67 Health and
Wellness Champions has been created to promote and
implement programmes in 44 markets, representing
246 794 of our employees.
A new Nestlé Framework for Employee Health was approved
in 2015, to help structure and focus our efforts (see above).
Since its introduction, our markets have started to adapt their
own health strategies to the new pillars and foundations
elements. At our corporate level, four web meetings took place
in April and June, involving representatives from the markets
to raise awareness on the framework and assist in the crossfertilisation
of ideas.
Illness investigation
For Nestlé, illness investigation is about getting better at
recognising the impact of work on employee health. We seek
to identify learnings and use the information to address and
reduce workplace health risks.
We modified our performance management systems to
report work-related illnesses separately from work-related
injuries in 2013, so we are still on a learning curve in this area.
We are raising awareness of occupational illnesses throughout
the company and working to strengthen internal capabilities for
recognition, diagnosis, investigation and reporting. We
encourage our markets to recognise the impact of health on
work and have produced guidance for employees on the
investigation and improved recognition of work-related illnesses.
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