BIC - 2018 Registration document

RISKS

Extra financial risks [NFPS]

RISKS RELATED TO PRODUCT SAFETY AND CONSUMER HEALTH AND SAFETY

Risk Identification

Risk Mitigation

The risk related to product safety and consumer health and safety is a risk of placing non-compliant or unsafe products on the market.

The BIC Group wants to offer safe and compliant products that answer consumers’ expectations. The BIC Group strives to strictly comply with increasingly stringent regulations regarding the use of chemicals and products. The Product Safety Policy, implemented in 2001, includes ten commitments to ensure that products designed and manufactured by the BIC Group are safe for health and the environment. With the primary objective of bringing to the market safe and compliant products, the BIC Group integrates regulatory compliance and product safety risk management into its strategy through a rigorous set of processes. In this way, the BIC Group supplies millions of products of constant quality every day, verified by multiple tests. It also means integrating the consumers’ health and safety concerns into product design and manufacturing. For example, in 2017, regulatory watch was extended to non-regulatory voluntary lists to ensure maximum anticipation. More information is available in section 3.2.3. “Product Safety”.

RISKS RELATED TO HEALTH AND SAFETY OF TEAM MEMBERS

Risk Identification

Risk Mitigation

The BIC Group’s operations, both industrial and commercial, expose its workers to various professional risks (mechanical, chemical, psychosocial, biological, ergonomic) that differ from function to function (headquarters, factories, sales force). For the BIC Group, workplace safety means ensuring its team members’ physical and mental well-being by preventing accidents and occupational diseases.

The BIC Group is committed to ensure health and safety to its team members through safe and healthy working conditions. For example, the BIC Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) policy commits the BIC Group to preventing or, at least, reducing risks to the health and safety of team members, subcontractors and the people who live or work near its production sites. For this reason, the BIC Group implements all the necessary levers: health and safety management, continuous improvement of the working environment and organization, and raising people’s awareness of safety issues. In 2017, the BIC Group wanted to go further and announced its commitment to Health and Safety as part of the “Writing the future, Together” program: “By 2025, BIC aims for zero accidents across all operations.” (2025 Commitment: #3 Committing to a safe work environment). This ambition integrates the 3 dimensions of health, safety and well-being at work, at every level. More information is available in section 3.4 of Chapter 3 Our environmental, social and societal responsibility (§ 3.4.3 Health/Safety in the workplace).

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