Sanofi seeks to provide a safe and healthy workplace for all employees and contractors working at our sites. To deliver on this goal, we have developed an HSE strategy based on a management system that is consistent with the issues faced by the Company in its activities and involves the whole organization.
The HSE policy is validated by our senior management and signed off by our CEO. It is a cornerstone of the Sanofi's HSE strategy and integral to our commitment to sustainability:
- we constantly strive to embed an HSE culture where each person takes responsibility for preventing accidents and harm to health, promoting wellness at work — a message shared with everyone at Sanofi;
- our development projects and product launches are assessed for potential risks to health and safety. These assessments draw on all our scientific and technical knowledge, use the best technologies available, and take account of the life cycle of the product;
- we encourage our suppliers, contractors and subcontractors to apply our HSE rules; when assessing and referencing them, the application of our HSE rules is a criterion.
Our Global HSE Policy reflects our engagement to preventing accidents, avoiding health risks and promoting wellbeing by building a HSE Culture and developing HSE accountability at all levels. It applies globally to all our businesses (Research & Development, Manufacturing & Supply, Commercial Operations and Tertiary activities) and to the full workforce (employees, contractors and subcontractors, temporary employees) without exception.
Health and Safety in the Workplace
Health and safety programs aim to provide a safe and healthy workplace for employees, minimize injury and illness and ensure compliance with applicable workplace health and safety laws and regulations. All actions apply to all activities, countries and internal and external workforces (contractors and temporary workers included in the scope).
Occupational Health programs are in place to ensure medical surveillance, vaccinations and titer testing, medical emergency response, and management of both temporary and permanent disability.
We integrate strict safety requirements from the design phase of all new key projects. In addition, we designed a new Global Safety Culture program — “Leading Safety” — to transform our safety culture and positively influence our behaviors. This program is based on five positive performance drivers: strengthen safety leadership; focus on key risks; increase managerial skills; improve safety barriers and the effectiveness of controls; increase reports of unsafe acts and hazardous conditions.
Our Targets
Absolute target
0-SIF (Serious Injuries & Fatalities) toward a 0-injury mindset.
Relative target
1.5 TRI-FR (Total Reportable Injuries - Frequency Rate) for 2025.
- Published figure only concerns fatalities as result of work-related injuries.
- The Total Reportable Injuries (TRI) frequency rate is the number of occupational injuries with or without lost time, per million hours worked. It is calculated over a 12-month rolling period.
- Reported by Sanofi on a voluntary basis, in addition to mandatory metrics as per CSRD requirements.
- The Lost-Time Injury (LTI) frequency rate is the number of accidents resulting in one day or more of time lost within a 12-month period, per million hours worked.
Comment on hours worked used for LTI-/TRI-FR calculation: Due to the early time of disclosure, hours worked for December 2024 were not available from all sites. In these cases, hours worked from November were rolled-over to December to arrive at the full calendar year.