COMPLIANCE Employee safety / RISKS AND CONSEQUENCES Our activity involves the handling, storage and transporting of products that are often heavy and bulky, and can therefore lead to dangerous situations. As well as logistics activities, our job exposes us to other dangerous situations (road risks in particular). Therefore, the Group is fully committed to creating and maintaining safe working conditions for all its teams. Uncontrolled risks can have potentially serious, and possibly irreversible, consequences for the physical health of employees. Moreover, the risk of criminal charges against senior management cannot be ruled out in the event of a serious accident in the workplace. An accident that results in time off work has several consequences. It causes a shift in workload to the employees in the department concerned, which then increases the risks involved. It disorganises the work load, which can lead to a deterioration in the quality of service provided to customers, and damage to the company’s image and commercial reputation. Finally, it generates an increase in the “workplace accident” contributions rate. / MEANS OF CONTROL As in previous years, in 2023 a dedicated governance body is responsible for preventing hazardous situations. A Group safety and environmental officer leads the safety/ environmental managers in the main subsidiaries, who implement the policy and roll out the defined action plans in their respective subsidiaries or sectors. They apply a methodology for analysing and monitoring accidents in the workplace. Each year, dedicated meetings bring together the main safety players and their management. In 2023, nine faceto-face meetings were held, with some 162 participants. Throughout 2023, this community discussed related issues, shared information and worked in committees to improve the different safety organisations (job descriptions, malfunction reporting sheet, creation of a PPE and working clothing catalogue, etc.). The Group continued staging a number of activities and events in 2023: in addition to the traditional interactive 'risk hunts' and quarter-hour sessions, some subsidiaries organised safety days or challenges. Their feedback has inspired other subsidiaries. The Group is very committed to safety and makes numerous efforts to raise awareness: monthly 15-minute safety briefings for logistics teams, systematic safety briefings at Executive Committee meetings, videos for managers and logistics teams, self-inspection tools (fire, steel stockpiles, etc.), and thematic posters that are renewed monthly. Several media provide information to all employees: internal guidelines available on the Group's intranet, welcome booklet summarising the rules and instructions to be followed, Web TV and the My D&C Intranet. These media were used to communicate the golden rules of safety and to illustrate each of the 10 rules, at the rate of one per month. Training modules are offered on a variety of subjects, such as transportation of dangerous goods, safety induction e-learning sessions for logistics operators, safety training for local managers, and the “5 S” organisation method. In 2023, 169 managers attended a safety training course organised by Tech'Up. 39 DECLARATION OF NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE 2023_DESCOURS & CABAUD
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