LEGRAND_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENT_2017

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)

Commitment to our employees

& Safety report, slightly higher than the target set at the end of 2017. These results are mainly due to close supervision of Group entities, their increased engagement with CSR, and reliability of the associated actions and indicators.

The Group establishes directives and benchmarks appropriate to its business and applicable to everyone everywhere. For example, in 2017, the Group drafted four must-haves on the following topics: safety instructions, communication, dealing with accidents, and dealing with near-accidents. These have been widely communicated and presented in more detail by an online academy. These must-haves supplement the existing management system. For example, the principle of not introducing new substances classified as CMR (carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction) into the manufacturing process, insofar as an alternative technical solution exists, was added to the Group Purchasing Specifications. Another example is the Group directive on workplace equipment (deployed only in France), which requires that purchasing contracts contain clauses to ensure that newly acquired machinery complies with all applicable legal provisions, and that a compliance inspection be conducted each time equipment is moved. The directive also defines rules that must be respected to ensure proper maintenance of machinery in use. R 4.4.2.1 CONTROLLING OCCUPATIONAL RISK Occupational risk management is assessed on the basis of eight prevention criteria according to the following Occupational Health & Safety reporting process: W promoting the Prevention Charter; W managing occupational health and safety; W ensuring staff representation on health and safety committees; W assessing occupational risk; W managing emergencies; W providing health and safety training; W providing first-aid and fire-prevention training; W preventing risks in situations where independent companies are working on site. Subsidiaries must fulfill at least six of the eight of the above- listed criteria in order to claim a level of implementation deemed to be satisfactory. Group priority 2014-2018 To extend and maintain an occupational risk management plan covering 90% of the Group’s workforce. Key performance indicator: the percentage of employees covered by the occupational risk management plan based on the key principles of ILO-OSH 2001. Annual targets: To ensure that 90% of the Group’s workforce are covered by the occupational risk management plan for the entire duration of the roadmap. 2017 achievement: At the endof 2017,the occupational riskmanagement plan covered 92% of the Group’s workforce included in the Occupational Health

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Target achievement rate*

106% 100% 100% 102%

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Calculated against annual targets.

The Prevention Charter , signed by the Group’s Chief Executive Officer and aligned with the guiding principles of ILO-OSH 2001, formalizes Legrand’s commitment to employees’ health and safety at work. The Charter is promoted by the managers of each entity. It has been widely circulated to employees and is available on the intranet in six languages. It is also available on the website ( www.legrand.com ). Depending on the country and size of the sites, occupational health and safety management is the responsibility of HR or another designated department. Many countries have health and safety committees (employee representative bodies) on the initiative of Senior Management in each country and in accordance with local laws. The Group is gradually broadening this principle of employee representation to countries where it is not required under local law. Employees and their representatives belonging to these committees have the time and resources to actively participate in their entity’s health and safety processes and initiatives, specifically through discussion on all relevant aspects of occupational health and safety, including emergency measures. Occupational risk assessment (periodic analysis of hazardous situations and levels of risk) enables appropriate and effective prevention measures to be established. In 2017, 65% of Group employees (including production, administrative and logistics workers) underwent a formal risk assessment, either using tools specific to the entity in question, or using a shared tool offered by the Group and tailored to its line of business. Emergency management enables potential accidents and emergency situations to be identified and the risks that result from them to be prevented, as well as the implementation of appropriate measures to safeguard people and property (information, training, coordination, communication with the relevant authorities, local responders and emergency services, first aid and medical assistance, fire-fighting and evacuation methods, and so on). Health and safety training concerns the prevention of risks in the workplace. It may be supplemented by first-aid and fire- prevention training. This training improves staff preparedness against risks to their health and safety, particularly by identifying hazardous situations, assessing risk levels and implementing measures to prevent risk, safeguard people and property, and respond to emergencies. More than 125,000 hours of training were devoted to these subjects in 2017.

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