Health and Safety

Target description:

• Zero fatal accidents
• Reduce accident rate to 0.5 at PUMA and at suppliers
• Building safety operational in high-risk countries

Relates to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3

Examples of the 10FOR25 action plan:

• Expand building safety projects to include Indonesia
• Ensure professional risk assessments are conducted regularly

KPIs:

• Number of fatal accidents at Tier 1 and core Tier 2 factories
• Average injury rate at PUMA (reported in the Our People section)
• Average injury rate at core Tier 1 suppliers
• Number of factories subject to our Building Safety Assessment Program

Due to special circumstances resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 we added the following measures and KPIs:

• Informing our supplier base that we expect full compliance with national health and safety measures
• In the absence of national health and safety measures, demanding compliance with the safety measures recommended by the ILO Better Work Program and/or the World Health Organization
• Best-practices sharing of suppliers on health and safety measures during our Round Table Meetings

Ensuring safe working conditions for our own employees and hundreds of thousands of indirect employees at our manufacturing partners is an ethical imperative but also makes good business sense. In 2015, we set a target of zero fatal accidents and also aimed to reduce the number of work-related accidents.

Apart from our ongoing auditing program that includes occupational health and safety assessments, we implemented our Building Safety Assessment Program in countries where we identified risks. We also set up professional risk assessments at all our major manufacturing partners.

From 2015 to the end of 2019, our Building Safety Assessment Program covered the following countries:

None of our suppliers have been involved in any structural building safety incidents or factory fires since 2015.

As part of our audit program, we continue to ascertain that our suppliers conduct health and safety risk assessments and have functional health and safety committees in place.

We are happy to report that we recorded zero fatal accidents at our suppliers for 2018, 2019, and 2020 as well as slightly reduced accident rates at our core suppliers.

As we believe that the health and safety of the people working for PUMA and in PUMA production always come first, we will continue to work with our own entities and suppliers to avoid infections and accidents.