Hermès // 2022 UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT

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métiers , the support services, the Group human resources department and the industrial affairs department, met to further formalise the Group’s Health and Safety policy. This policy aims to create a strategic framework that helps preserve the health and safety of employees, partners and customers, from production to retail. It adapts to the uniqueness of the activities and is based on four strategic areas.

Lastly, each métier strives to train and raise awareness among all its employees to achieve these ambitions, taking into account the unique features of its activity, to reinforce the culture of safety at work. Hermès is committed to a “Zero Accident” trajectory, with a pragmatic approach that will continue to be rolled out according to the specificities of the activities. In 2022, a cross‑functional working group made up of representatives of the French exclusive stores, the

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Managing Health and Safety performance

Protecting employee health

Advancing the Health and Safety culture

Preventing risks

These axes will be broken down into guiding principles in 2023 and will be supported by a global communication campaign in the second half of the year, in order to reach all Group employees.

•Regulatory watch and site compliance assessment tool •Internal guidelines on major risks (e.g. work at height) •Analysis of risks by site •Sharing of best practices through networks •Regulatory training, authorisations, awareness-raising •Risk prevention at source for all real estate projects (renovation, construction)

Preventing risks

•Ergonomic and biomechanical studies •Adaptation of workspaces and organisations to reduce musculoskeletal disorders (RSIs) •Training of craftspeople (gestures and postures, training at workspaces, etc.) •Training on psychosocial risks

Protecting employee health

•Internal framework for assessing the maturity of the Health and Safety Culture •Site culture assessment programme by a partner firm •Rollout of Safety Inspection procedures •Environment, Hygiene and Safety (EHS) community networking events •Training of managers and employees

Advancing the Health and Safety culture

•Group incident and accident event management software •Safety performance objectives for industrial sites •Routine reporting of results for sites and métiers •Site and métiers progress plans •EHS Communication stream

Managing Health and Safety performance

To support this policy, the Hermès industrial affairs department runs an EHS programme organised in successive cycles. The fifth cycle of this programme, which began in 2018 and will be completed in 2023, consists of three components: an EHS regulatory watch organised at a frequency adapted to changes in the regulations of the countries in which the sites are located: in France, the watch is shared quarterly; for the rest of the world, it is published bi‑annually or annually; s the elimination of hazardous situations, by ensuring the proper management of hazardous work and the control of environmental practices through the Group’s guidelines, updated each year and s

The industrial affairs department audits the achievements of the industrial sites with the support of an external firm and regularly reports on the progress made in meeting Hermès' commitments. In 2022, 15 sites were assessed as part of this programme. Numerous approaches and initiatives implemented within the Group illustrate the four strategic axes: some examples of implementation are presented below. which supplement those of the real estate development department; a safety culture, assessed each year at all industrial sites in accordance with internal standards. s

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