4 _263 2023 UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT_MICHELIN 4 NON-FINANCIAL STATEMENT Sustainable Development Report In addition to protecting employee health, reducing ergonomic hardship is also making the workstations more accessible and appealing to a wider range of people. In turn, this is supporting diversity, making workstations a more attractive job option, and enhancing people’s well-being and motivation, with a positive impact on workplace accidents. This avenue to improvement is being explored with studies and trials, in particular to analyze more precisely a workstation’s cognitive load, in addition to the current focus on a station’s physical load. 4.1.3.3 Assessing and preventing workplace safety and security risks SDG 8.8 In its Health and Safety Statement, Michelin affirms that “Each person must be responsible for their own health and safety, as well as the health and safety of others, by striving every day to improve everyone’s health and safety through their behavior and active contribution.” To embed a culture of safety and prevention in every aspect of the Group’s business, three essential principles are being instilled across the organization: ● correct behavior begins with compliance with safety guidelines; ● through their active commitment, employees are responsible for everyone’s health and safety, both their own and that of others; ● personal engagement drives continuous improvement. This process emphasizes risk prevention, compliance, employee empowerment and management involvement, so that the Declaration is effectively demonstrated in daily work practices. In recent years, a comprehensive, prioritized risk map has been created, based on data from standardized risk assessments conducted for every workstation. These data are also being used to set priorities in the annual or multi-year action plans. In France, they are consolidated into the comprehensive risk assessment review (Document Unique d’Evaluation des Risques Professionnels), which addresses all the possible risk factors. 4.1.3.3 a) Managing workplace safety Michelin encourages every employee to embrace a culture of accident prevention based on anticipating, analyzing, managing and mitigating health and safety risks. Prevention and mitigation measures are structured into three main interconnected categories: ● technical measures, focused on five Group Safety Programs addressing the specific risks that the Group wants to reduce and manage. They are supported by prioritized responses to the most serious machinery and ergonomic risks, in liaison with the engineering departments; ● behavioral measures, combined into an innovative approach that heightens employee alertness and engages them to demonstrate preventive practices for themselves and their colleagues. It draws on behavioral sciences to encourage engagement through managerial leadership and the active participation of every employee (safety coalitions); ● organizational measures, both to support the effective management and mitigation of risks with a robust management system and to develop employee skills. A culture of safety at work is embraced by employees across the organization, as seen in: ● the uncompromising support of managers, from the executive suite to the shopfloor; ● the dissemination and sharing of best practices and feedback; ● the corporate communication media issued by the Group; ● the programs aimed at detecting and responding to emerging risks. Before conducting any on-site operations in the production plants or offices(1), outside contractors must work with Michelin to prepare a dedicated risk prevention plan addressing all the tasks to be performed under the contract. An indirect metric attests to the importance of safety for Michelin employees and the outstanding example set by managers. In 2023: 88% of employees(2) felt that “we never compromise our own safety to meet other targets” (costs, deadlines, etc.). This was two points higher than in the 2021 survey. 4.1.3.3 b) Protecting employees at a time of intensifying international crises Business travelers To guarantee the security and safety of the Group’s business travelers, the Corporate Planning, Prevention and Protection Department (DCAPP) primarily uses an online platform, managed by an international service provider(3) and connected to the Group’s travel agency, where employees are required to book their tickets and hotels. The site informs travelers of potential risks, offers health, safety and security guidelines, alerts them in the event of an incident and validates that they meet the conditions for approved travel to at-risk countries. Any travel to an at-risk country must be approved by the security department, the regional manager or the head of the DCAPP, depending on the destination’s level of risk. (1) Except in units not yet fully integrated into the system. (2) Who responded to the “Moving Forward Together” survey. (3) Canada-based GardaWorld, one of the world’s leading providers of security solutions.
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