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Product safety
Risk movement:
We consider the safety of our
customers to be paramount. Unsafe
products may result in injury, harm
or illness to our customers. If we are
unable to meet the requirements of our
product safety frameworks, we will be
subject to regulatory impacts, claims,
and reputational damage.
Our risk management
approach includes:
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dedicated product and food safety
teams across the Group who
lead our response to customer
complaints and the withdrawal
or recall of products when required
clear end-to-end procedures and
processes for managing product
safety in our supply chain from
design, manufacturing, transport,
and storage to customer purchase
ongoing review and monitoring
of controls throughout the product
lifecycle to confirm compliance
with mandatory and internal
safety requirements
using diverse data sources
and analytics to identify product
safety issues.
Committee:
B R G
RAS Lead:
Managing Director,
Woolworths
Food Company
Committee:
A Audit and Finance Committee
B Board
Pay and entitlements
Risk movement:
Paying our team correctly and rewarding
them fairly is critical to maintaining
trust, team member engagement,
reputation and living our values
of caring deeply and doing the right
thing. We acknowledge our historical
challenges in this area. We remain
focused on repaying pay shortfalls,
while bolstering our internal processes
and governance so we are confident
we are paying our team correctly.
Our risk management
approach includes:
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clear leadership and accountability
for our pay program across
the Group
significant focus and investment
in understanding our obligations
and enhancing our pay processes
ongoing review and monitoring
of controls across our end-to-end
pay processes, including changes
to our business, systems, and
external environment
proactive reviews of our industrial
instruments (including over
30 enterprise and collective
agreements in Australia and New
Zealand) to confirm appropriate
system configuration
continuing our remediation
programs, including making
repayments to current and
former team members
a range of governance and
oversight mechanisms, including
specific management forums
and regular reporting.
Committee: B P G
RAS Lead: Chief People Officer
P People Committee
R Risk Committee
G Group Executive Committee
S Sustainability Committee
People
Risk movement:
Our team is critical to our success.
We must attract, retain, and develop
team members with diverse skills,
capabilities and backgrounds. We know
that building a great team experience
is core to achieving this goal.
Our risk management
approach includes:
attracting and retaining a diverse
workforce that reflects the
communities in which we operate,
with clear targets and inclusive
hiring program striving for an
inclusive, safe, and caring work
environment through deliberate
steps to address bullying,
harassment and discrimination
building a Customer 1st,
Team 1st culture which aims
to provide a sense of belonging
and inclusion, giving everyone
an equal opportunity for growth
and development
investment in dedicated people
risk management initiatives
to understand and build
confidence across a range
of team-related risks (including
pay, resourcing, conduct and
behaviour, industrial action,
data, privacy, and safety, health
and wellbeing)
listening to our team members
through Voice of Team surveys
and other mechanisms to adapt
and refine our existing people
strategies and continuously
improve team experience
embracing agile and flexible
working, including refreshed
physical spaces in many
of our support offices and
a 'work from anywhere' policy
(including internationally) within
certain guardrails
focused attention on proactive
talent management and strategic
workforce planning to confirm that
we have the skills we need today
and for the future.
Safety, health
and wellbeing
Risk movement:
Providing a safe and healthy
workplace for our teams (including
contractors) and customers is one of
our foundational objectives, ensuring
all return home safely, every day.
We maintain high standards of control
to reduce the likelihood of serious
injury and fatality risk. Along with
physical health and safety, we are
committed to managing the risk of
psychosocial hazards in the workplace,
which could cause harm to our teams'
mental health and wellbeing, such as
bullying, harassment (including sexual
harassment, workplace violence,
aggression, and mental stress).
Our risk management
approach includes:
ensuring all leaders are
accountable and provide active
leadership, along with their
teams, for creating a safe and
healthy workplace
a dedicated safety, health and
wellbeing team who provide
technical expertise and support;
regular safety, health and wellbeing
training provided to all team
an independently verified
safety management system
that proactively manages both
occupational injury and illness;
along with material events that
may lead to serious harm
ongoing review and monitoring
of controls, supported by
independent assurance activities
to assess their effectiveness
Board, management and
business-unit specific health and
safety governance to oversee
the key metrics and monitor the
effectiveness of related controls
offering Good Shepherd,
a financial wellbeing program,
to provide support and solutions
for team members
utilising Sonder proactive
wellbeing, alongside support
during challenging times or
after an incident.
Privacy and data
management
Risk movement:
Quality data is one of our most
important organisational assets
which positively impacts how we
make investment, strategic, and
operational decisions. The misuse
of customer and team data has the
potential to result in significant brand
and reputational damage, adverse
regulatory outcomes, financial
impacts, and loss of customer trust.
Our risk management
approach includes:
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dedicated privacy, data ethics,
data stewards and risk experts
embedded across the business
to provide specialist support
the establishment of a
comprehensive set of frameworks
to manage privacy, data ethics,
and data management risk
regular training and awareness
programs to provide our teams with
an understanding of privacy and
data management commensurate
to their role and responsibilities
launching the Woolworths
Group Privacy Centre to provide
increased transparency to our
customers on how we manage their
personal information
the Woolworths Group Data
Governance Council establishes
best practices on how data is
managed across our business
processes to respond to data
or privacy-related incidents
or complaints should they occur.
Committee: B R G
RAS Lead:
Managing Director,
WooliesX; Chief
Information Officer
& Director, Group
Enablement
Customer
Risk movement:
Changing customer expectations
requires us to continually evolve our
business model to meet their needs
and preferences, with impacts to
brand, reputation and market share
if not managed effectively. Our ability
to respond to our customers'
needs and expectations has been
particularly important in the context
of rising cost-of-living pressures
in Australia and New Zealand caused
by a high-inflationary environment and
rising interest rates.
Our risk management
approach includes:
dedicated customer strategy,
marketing, and insight teams
working closely together to monitor
trends and developments both
locally and globally to assist
in a cross-functional and holistic
response to our customer
propositions across the Group
listening and engaging with our
customers through Voice of
Customer surveys and adopting
learnings into existing strategies
sharing qualitative and quantitative
customer feedback from our
stores, customer hub, and online
channels with our teams to improve
our customer proposition in our
stores and online.
Committee:
B
G
RAS Lead:
Chief Transformation
Officer; Chief Marketing
Officer; Director of
Government Relations
and Industry Affairs
Annual Report 2023
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