SOMFY // 2022 Annual Report

03 NON-FINANCIAL STATEMENT

MAKING THE WORK ENVIRONMENT CONTRIBUTE TO EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE

DEVELOPING NEW WAYS OF WORKING

EXTENDING THE SMART WORKING POLICY TO ALL EMPLOYEES — A smart working project was designed in 2020-2021 to roll-out key principles focusing on remote working, remote management and well-being at work. SOMFY pays great attention to the well-being of all its employees and considers that this key element of its social responsibility leads to improved performance. It is also a reflection of the “symmetry of attention” SOMFY extends to both its employees and customers. Several ambitious e-learning courses will support this approach, such as “Managing priorities”, “Preventing burn-out”, “Managing stress”, “Workstation ergonomics”. DEVELOPING PREVENTIVE HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICIES — SOMFY places the protection of safety and physical and mental health of its employees at the very forefront of its concerns. Depending on the type of activity carried out, this covers the risk of accident at work, risk of occupational disease, as well as psychosocial risks. The Group’s Health & Safety policy primarily focuses on employees. It pays particular attention to the individual and collective state of mind defined as essential in targeting the reduction of risks and the elimination of work-related incidents and accidents. This policy relies on standards and tools that are designed to be rolled out across the entire Group while simultaneously taking into account the context and specific features of each site. The Health & Safety Management approach helps to meet these objectives and is based on four fundamental principles: leadership and individual responsibility, preventive approach, risk awareness and continuous improvement. In 2022, SOMFY attached an ambitious action plan to each objective of its Health & Safety policy: Develop the Health & Safety culture by targeting performance excellence: – roll-out of a vast communication campaign about the 10 risk prevention themes included in the Golden Rules (videos, posters, risk identification exercises, quizzes, etc.); – organisation of digital conferences on the themes of risk prevention and risk awareness on World Day for Safety & Health at Work on 28 April 2022; ENSURING SAFETY AT WORK

For example, in 2022 SOMFY implemented the following initiatives through its smart working policy: – four weeks of remote working to work from any location; – the Group-wide implementation of “team Charters” to facilitate the management and collaboration of teams in hybrid mode (50 Charters in 2022 for 50 teams); – training in the detection of psychosocial risks attended by over 1,000 people in 2022. Many of these initiatives were designed with the support of HR business partners to define appropriate ways of organising work and collaborating within teams. – development of a Health & Safety awareness-raising module about the 10 Golden Rules. This module will be integrated into the Group’s onboarding programme in 2023; – setting up and coordinating the Health & Safety network, and contacts via monthly meetings to discuss events and elements of the health and safety management system rolled out across the company (processes, procedures, instructions, etc.); –creation of a Group Health & Safety Steering Committee comprising representatives of the Group’s various professions. Ensure a safe and healthy working environment and prevent accidents at work and occupational diseases: – drafting of guidelines for remote workers to raise awareness of the risks of remote working, good practices and how to respond in the event of an emergency; – an initial workshop was held with all the Group’s Health & Safety managers in order to share knowledge; – establishment of a global action plan to improve the safety of pedestrian and vehicle movements, and launch of its roll-out across all industrial sites; – implementation of a solution to share the Health & Safety events (incidents, near misses, etc.) occurring in the entities with the entire network, and to cross-reference the improvements.

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SOMFY – ANNUAL REPORT 2022

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