ZERO Accidents Culture

EMPLOYEE SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Our commitment to ensuring a safe working environment across all operations and to protecting the health and well-being of our employees.

Stakeholder Groups Most Concerned

Employees; NGOs, Industry Groups and Local Communities; Investors

Why It Is Important

We value the importance of creating an enriching, empowering, conducive and secure work environment to promote excellence among our workforce.

Prioritising the safety, health and well-being of our employees is a key part of our commitment to fostering a ZERO Accidents Culture under our TTZAB programme.

This commitment does not only boost productivity and reduce costs but also minimises employee absences and turnover, decreases accidents and reinforces our brand reputation while ensuring compliance to safety regulations.

Our Approach

We aim to create a safer today and tomorrow for our employees, and this is guided by our Health and Safety Policy which is aligned with the Carlsberg Group Health and Safety Standards, Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 and Factories and Machinery Act 1967.

We believe that all accidents are preventable and there is no higher value than a person’s life. Extensive training and a sustained focus on our Life Saving Rules helped us complete the year with no fatal incidents. We further reinforced our Life Saving Rules through a series of short training sessions in 2023, together with a continued emphasis on safe driving.

We put a strong focus on instilling safe behaviours and encouraging people to report any unsafe conditions or behaviour they observe.

Our global Health and Safety Policy and standards extend to all personnel linked to Group entities in our Malaysian and Singaporean operations, whether at on-site or off-site locations. On-site locations refer to Carlsberg premises whereas off-site locations refer to premises that do not belong to Carlsberg but where Carlsberg employees are performing their duties. This Policy is extended to cover contractors, suppliers and members of the public on our premises.

In Singapore, our Safety Management System is based on the organisation’s health and safety standards and aligns with Workplace Safety and Health Act Singapore.

The health and safety and HR team spearheads the health and safety agenda. Key functions include developing health and safety rules and safe systems of work, reviewing the effectiveness of health and safety programmes, conducting studies on accident trends, and reviewing health and safety policies in the workplace. They also make recommendations to the employer for any necessary revisions to policies.

We also conducted the Regional Quarterly Health and Safety programme, Asia Health and Safety Hero programme and Safety Walk and Behaviour Observation programme. These programmes aim to encourage employees’ action toward safer outcomes, ideally by preventing an accident or injury before it occurs. It is the most comprehensive way for organisations to promote a safety culture by eliminating hazards and preventing injuries.

We view safety as a shared responsibility. Our employees are encouraged to actively engage in developing, implementing and evaluating our health and safety management system. Our Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE)department, along with the Health and Safety committee, implements programmes to enhance safety across the Group. We organised regular activities whereby the programme performance was reviewed monthly and shared internally. We also identified gaps which were addressed through the Kaizen approach.

Additionally, our Health and Safety Committee, comprising management and employee representatives, focuses on the following primary objectives: