Care
At Givaudan, our success is built on genuine care for our people.
By offering support to our people through all aspects of their lives, we are helping them to have the physical energy, mental focus and emotional drive necessary to power our business and also succeed in their activities outside of work.
Nurturing a positive safety culture
A good health and safety culture is critical to reducing the number of work-related injuries. At Givaudan, we uphold this culture by actively nurturing the concept of safety, and by caring for each other, our people and our environment.
Our goal is to get ‘Everyone Home Safe, Every Day’, and awareness campaigns and training programmes have helped instil this mantra into our Company culture. We go beyond rules and processes to empower all employees to take shared responsibility.
Our active focus on safety is reflected in high safety statistics. In our engagement survey, scores related to caring for the safety of others reinforce how important this topic is in the organisation:
- 91% of employees said that they are comfortable reporting a safety issue;
- 87% agreed that safety is a priority at Givaudan;
- 85% felt that safety problems are addressed if they occur.
These results show the dedication of our people in making our Company a safe place to work.
Naturally though, we wish to continually evolve and improve our safety culture. We want to achieve the following safety ambition by 2025:
- By 2025 we will reduce our total recordable case rate by 50% (to a 2018 baseline); our current status is 47%.
This ambition is being enriched with learnings from events and cross-functional training sessions for professionals in Givaudan. This safety initiative is part of our broader environment, health and safety (EHS) strategy and includes training as well as an opportunity to interact and discuss these topics with peers across the Company.
Investing in our people’s wellbeing
We have developed a wellbeing strategy that focuses on four key pillars in order to take care of our people in a holistic way. We believe this contributes to fulfilled, happier employees that enjoy a rich life at work and at home.
Our wellbeing pillars
Physical wellbeing
Supporting our people to build and maintain good physical health and habits.
Supporting the awareness, prevention and/or treatment of physical injury and disease.
Social wellbeing
Enabling and encouraging our people to build positive relationships at work.
Enabling our people to feel comfortable with their sense of belonging at work.
Financial wellbeing
Guiding our people to manage their finances effectively and appropriately.
Educating our people on planning for the future and for unforeseen circumstances.
Mental wellbeing
Supporting our people to manage the normal stresses of life and work and enabling them to make positive contributions.
Supporting the awareness, prevention and/or treatment of mental ill health.
Boosting wellbeing from colleague to colleague
As part of our purpose we have the goal that by 2025 everyone on our sites will have access to mental and physical health initiatives, tools and training (our current status is 82%). Our ‘Happier + Healthier’ Givaudan programme is one of the actions that we’re taking to ensure that on each of our sites we have wellbeing programmes and support that meet local needs. Our Workplace Wellbeing Leads are bringing this to life.
“Our actions are focused on embedding positive wellbeing habits into our day-to-day life and supporting our people to be the best versions of themselves through all aspects of their lives.”
Martha Tracey, Head of Employee Experience
