Plastic Omnium - 2020 Universal Registration Document

STATEMENT OF NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE The ACT FOR ALL TM program PLASTIC OMNIUM UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2020 161 Steering the key HSE programs and providing methodology support to d) the Business Lines (equipment compliance, field visits, chemical risks, asbestos, Top Planet program, fire prevention and protection). HSE reporting is done on a monthly basis. The data are input at the plant and business line, then consolidated at Group level. The indicators monitored include, amongst others, the number of workplace accidents and first aid, accident frequency and severity rates, the progress of ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certification, and the deployment of Top Safety training. These indicators also make it possible to highlight good practices and share feedback. This HSE policy demonstrates its effectiveness over time. The frequency rate (FR2) target of 1.60 for 2020 was exceeded, at 1.43. Since the implementation of the Top Safety policy, improvement has been steady. The Group faced with the health crisis and Covid-19 The first sites impacted by the health measures were those located in China from January 2020. In March, the European sites gradually closed, beginning with the plants located in France and Spain. The North and South American plants had to shut down at the end of March following the closure of customers’ sites. Partial unemployment measures were put in place in European and American plants and in all the Group’s R&D and administrative centers (except for China). Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, Plastic Omnium rapidly put in place measures to ensure employees were protected. The Group’s Chinese presence enabled it to understand the importance of the health risk and to very quickly adopt measures appropriate to the severity of the situation. The teams bought in advance IT tools to enable remote working, organize the shutdown of sites and put in place the measures needed to protect employees. From March 2020, a set of measures was rolled out: working from home full-time for suitable positions; ● electronic temperature monitors at the entrance to each site; ● organization of working schedules to avoid shifts crossing over; ● disinfection of work stations and common areas on each team ● changeover; limits on the number of employees in common areas. ● Plastic Omnium established a Covid-19 protocol to enable its businesses to restart safely at the end of lockdown. It is structured according to role. The HSE functions are responsible for guaranteeing safety at work by meeting anti-Covid personal protective equipment needs. The Supply Chain functions are responsible for liaising with suppliers to ensure the delivery of products and the restart of businesses. The HR functions ensure the return to sites by deploying a restart preparedness kit and by communicating weekly with all employees. The Quality teams ensure staff preparedness by ensuring the compliance of the processes and the products. Fifteen fundamentals were set as prerequisites across all sites. They set out the rules to be followed in all situations encountered by employees during their work (during meals and in the canteen, organization of travel, meeting rooms, workstations and workshops). They also cover the rules to be followed when an employee presents symptoms of Covid-19, the daily audit systems, the standards to be applied for cleaning and the level of training/information to be given to employees. This protocol was presented to the sites by video conference. Plastic Omnium wanted to make it publicly available on its website. It can thus be used by others seeking best practices. Isolation related to working from home generates an increase in stress, anxiety, appetite or sleep disorders and a deterioration in morale. Anxiety caused by the health, economic and social crisis is weakening the mental health of employees. A psychological support telephone line has been set up for all employees, which has proved to be very useful to support employees who are unwell. ERGONOMICS 4.6.2.3 The ergonomics of workstations is an essential factor in reducing accidents and protecting the health of employees. Musculoskeletal problems are among the most widespread occupational illnesses for Plastic Omnium’s industrial businesses. The Group has decided to make ergonomics one of the priorities of its ACT FOR ALL TM program. Clean Energy Systems and Intelligent Exterior Systems have ergonomists among their workforce responsible for scoring workstations (evaluation of work postures according to ergonomic principles), identifying solutions and implementing corrective or preventive measures. The target is to have scored all workstations by 2025. At Clean Energy Systems, the virtual reality room AlphaVision can incorporate ergonomic criteria at the start of the design phase for the production lines and workstations. All the production facilities are assessed via a rating tool standardized since 1991, using virtual reality to carry out an automatic assessment. The rating goes from 1 to 7 where 4 is acceptable and 7 is the worst rating. On average, the recommendations led to a 1.6-point increase in the rating from 5.3 (before recommendation) to 3.7. In 2020, 104 assessments were performed. The rest of the assessment is done on site where the local ergonomics correspondent is responsible for scoring in a real situation to reconcile the virtual reality with the actual plant situation. The rating in the actual situation was 3.8. This score is very near to the rating produced by the virtual reality. It demonstrates the fairness of the analysis performed in the AlphaVision room. For Clean Energy Systems, 93% of stations were assessed against a target set at 90% in 2020. Despite the Covid-19 impact, the number of scores is comparable to previous years. The goal for Clean Energy Systems is to develop a pilot line in ergonomics in order to eliminate load carrying by operators. In this respect, the ergonomist is working on solutions involving collaborative robots and exoskeletons, etc. Their aim is to identify the best equipment and appliances to install. In this way, sliding planes were positioned between each station to avoid load carrying by the operators. Research is underway to find solutions at the beginning and end of the assembly line. The partial unemployment introduced as a result of lockdown has led to a delay in the development of this pilot line. The Plastic Omnium Group pays particular attention to new products and actively monitors developments by participating in the INRS (French National Institute for Research and Safety) working group dedicated to exoskeletons. In 2020, Clean Energy Systems teams have assembled all the best practices on postures related to the manual handling of loads together in an ergonomics booklet. The production of a group version of this guide is underway and will include an update of the standards and the clarification of ergonomic principles for the technical teams.