3.6 Health and safety

In 2020, Nutreco stepped up its efforts to ensure continued improvement in health and safety across the company. This included introducing Visible Felt Leadership (VFL) to all management through workshops with the Nutreco Executive Leadership Team (NELT), the Nutreco Management Meeting (NMM – the company’s top 200) and by hosting a Global Safety Week together with all companies within the SHV family.

In February 2020, a Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) workshop was organised by SHV involving all of its companies. Among the items discussed and agreed were HSE related goals, targets and KPIs. This SHV-wide alignment in KPI reporting means a change for Nutreco. Historically, Nutreco measured Lost Time Injuries (LTIs) and the HSE Audit score.

Nutreco’s Life Saving Rules continued to be rolled-out and implemented across the company. An e-learning formedthe basis of this effort, with specific focus put on Severe Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs) and Potential SIFs (PSIFs). Any failure of the Live Saving Rules is considered to be a PSIF.

Lessons From Incidents (LFIs) were distributed across the company, including what happened, the causes and actions that are to be taken to address the risk at other facilities with similar operations.

Global HSE networks were also formed, with an increased focus on systemic issues and incident management. Atthe same time, the significant backlog in corrective actions critical to personnel safety was addressed.

In 2020, the safety culture programme continued with the third Global Safety Week. For the first time, SHV and Nutreco held a global, group-wide Health and Safety Week. With the theme of "Health and Safety Leadership”, it provided a focus for all of Nutreco and SHV to reflect on how personal leadership improvements can be made in this critical area.

Our Safety Champions were also challenged to organise activities related to the central theme, with around 70 such actions held throughout Nutreco. Global teams organised webinars on safety leadership and lifesaving rules. For example, some local teams produced a webinar with their General Managers, Production Directors and HSE Engineers on health and safety. Another group focused on safety training videos to deepen their individual awareness of safety. Colleagues participated in games that delivered safety messages. Other employees were led through different activities to investigate the importance of safety and the positive business impact good safety has; this was supported by coaches, learning about the topic in an active and hands-on way.

Our youngest family members also joined in the action through an art contest with the theme: What does it look like when mom, dad, grandma or grandpa work safely?