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HEALTH AND SAFETY
Facilities, health and safety
It is our intent to provide a safe and healthy workplace,
with adequate prevention and controls of health and
safety risks arising from business activities in order to
minimise accidents, injury or ill health. While we recognise
that the nature of our business is low risk in relation to
health and safety, we still focus on ensuring we meet or
exceed local legislative requirements in all locations.
RWS has a Health and Safety Policy, which covers all
colleagues and locations where the Group operates
and commits to complying with local legislation in all
jurisdictions.
We have established a Health and Safety Committee to
consider, manage and report on health and safety matters
to the RWS Board. It is chaired by a member of the
Executive Team, meets quarterly and has cross-functional
representation in its membership, including the CFO.
This year we implemented a consistent set of quality
standards across all o昀케ces in the Group. A new set of
health and safety procedures, enabled by a new health
and safety software tool has been made available,
and health and safety representatives at all of the
Group’s locations have been appointed and trained.
These procedures outline how to implement the
Health and Safety Policy in the o昀케ce environment and
include guidelines on how to undertake health and
safety risk assessments. Feedback and engagement
were both excellent and substantially all of our o昀케ces
had implemented the new procedures by the end of
September 2023.
Health and safety is included in the onboarding process
for all new colleagues and health and safety matters
are communicated regularly to all colleagues through a
number of internal communications channels.
In FY23 there were seven work-based accidents reported
amongst our colleagues globally.
Absenteeism rate for illness and work accidents
Accident frequency rate
3%
0.13
With the majority of our colleagues now working on a
remote or hybrid basis, we provide ongoing training and
guidance on home workspace ergonomics including
correct display screen equipment set up, lighting and
posture. We are con昀椀dent these e昀昀orts will deliver
ongoing value as we now operate hybrid working more
permanently in most locations.
SOCIAL RWS Holdings plc — ESG Report 2023
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