Investor Presentaiton
42 Cargill 2020 Annual Report
Work safety and
health
We treat safety as a priority commitment with our employ-
ees, made evident in the promotion of a culture focused on
ZERO harm throughout Cargill. Continuous alertness con-
cerning the risks of our activities has minimized incidents in
a consistent fashion -
in the last 30 years, we reduced the injury rate at work by
88%.
The Zero Harm premise regarding safety issues covers all
phases of operations and the supply chain. This means to
ensure the safety and well-being of our people, the integrity
of our products and environmental balance. Since 2013, this
proposal is materialized in the Focus on LIFE (Life Altering
Injury and Fatality Elimination = Elimination of Permanent
Injuries and Fatalities) program, which objective is to iden-
tify and deal with hidden fatal hazards in our tasks and
work location.
We carry out area management by means of a set of proce-
dures: risk mapping, action planning, alignment with senior
management, definition actions, definition of responsibilities
and deadlines, monitoring via committees and effectiveness
evaluation.
Cargill establishes reactive follow-up goals, with accident indi-
cators, and proactive goals such as number of reported near
misses, maturity index, observations of serious situations and
hierarchy of controls in protection layers, among other goals.
We encourage our employees to report identified risksand,
for this, we use a tool they feel comfortable with to share
their concerns. We use this information to assess trends,
possible fragilities and where we should act, whether in a
corporate fashion or on a specific unit. With this experience,
we learn together and share knowledge and preventive mea-
sures. GRI 103-2, 103-3 |403
All employees or contracted workers are covered by health and
safety management programs and receive training prior to start-
ing any work. They follow a monthly training schedule. Along the
year, these instructions are reinforced via campaigns. In order to
implement this system, the company sought to consolidate the
basic internal requirements, the legal requirements and the regu-
latory standards of the Ministry of Labor. GRI 403-1, 403-5, GRI 403-8
Cargill's Global Environmental, Health
and Safety Policy defines requirements
based on the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines
and on the ISO 14001 Environmental
Management System
Employees have at their disposal several instances to partici-
pate and be heard regarding work safety and health. All units
have an EHS Management Committee, which discusses and
defines actions based on statistical data, experiences, good
practices and opportunities. They are informed of relevant
issues by means of Cipa, local communication channels, the
Cargill Comunica bulletin and other communication tools.
GRI 403-4
We have a strong culture of motivating our employees and con-
tracted workers to observe and report behavioral deviations in
the work environment and routine. During the day dedicated to
the campaign See. Say. Stop (See, Say, Stop), at all units in the
country, the teams reported 15,000 potentially insecure devia-
tions. All those reporting received feedback on the reporting of
the process.
For high potential risk assessments, we use a proprietary risk
management tool. All activities and tasks are analyzed taking
into account a severity and probability matrix during monthly
safety inspections. In 2020, 10,171 notifications were recorded
in the Safety Deviation Reporting (RDS) tool. In order to identify
risks related to occupational hygiene, we use the legal pro-
grams, corporate audits, behavioral assessments and inspec-
tions. GRI 403-2, 403-7View entire presentation