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

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 aimed to reduce the number of work-related accidents. In 2021 we revised our suppliers OHS handbook, requiring them to conduct an OHS risk assessment. We also published the PUMA OHS policy and rolled out an online training course for our own employees.

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

SUPPLIER TRAINING ON OHS RISK ASSESSMENT

In 2021, OHS Risk Assessment Training was conducted with 249 participants from 94 T2 factories, focusing on the importance of OHS risk assessments, main elements of such an assessment, and PUMA’s expectation on OHS management in general.

Following the training, our suppliers conducted their own risk assessment. We see the need to further increase their knowledge and understanding. Therefore, we updated our OHS Handbook to provide guidance on processes and tools for OHS risk assessment to the factory management and OHS person in charge. We will support our Core T2 suppliers to setup respective policies and procedures, as this has been the area where most need for improvement was identified.

BUILDING SAFETY ASSESSMENTS

From 2015 onwards, our Building Safety Assessment Program covered the following countries:

Country	No. of factories	Comments
Bangladesh	22	Part of our ongoing membership of the Bangladesh Accord
India	6	In partnership with Asia Inspection and Elevate
Indonesia	4	In partnership with Asia Inspection
Pakistan	7	In partnership with Elevate

A safe workplace is a top priority at PUMA. Bearing in mind that we continuously carry out building safety inspections among high-risk factories in our supply chain, in 2021 we were able to conduct the structural/fire/electrical safety inspection with three suppliers from Pakistan and India. Two of them have been assessed in the past. We saw improvements in electricity safety, however structural safety findings increased due to the extended audit scope. Going forward we will follow up with these factories in their remediation.

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

We are happy to report that we recorded zero fatal accidents at our suppliers for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, as well as slightly reduced accident rates at our core suppliers.

*Average of the 5 countries included in this table. Global average injury rate for PUMA’s core suppliers in 2021 was 0.3

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.

For more information on PUMA’s own Health and Safety efforts, please refer to the Our People section.