Employee Health and Safety
Our people are our assets and their welfare is our responsibility. The promise of Caring, Sharing, Growing is an integral part of Jubilant Pharmova.
Our EHS (Environment, health & safety) policy of the Company clearly articulate our management objectives in achieving highest standard of OHS performance covering all our employees, both permanent and contractual as well. Those qualitative OHS objectives in the policy has guided the management to set a list of quantitative OHS targets meeting our internal & external stakeholder’s expectations. These OHS performance targets are regularly monitored and reported regularly post third party verification/ audits.
An Environment, Occupational Health and Safety Division has been set up at all our manufacturing facilities with dedicated safety officers. Well-equipped Occupational Health Centres (OHC) has been set up at major manufacturing facilities along with an ambulance, benefiting all the employees and contract workmen. The company follows global standards while framing its occupational health & safety management systems. In India 4 out of 5 facilities (including R&Ds) are certified under ISO 45001: 2018 based OHS (Occupational health & safety) management system. All of them are also certified under ISO 14001:2015 based environment management system and ISO 9001:2015 based quality management system.
The company regularly conduct training on employee health and safety risks and good working conditions, and training record maintain in-house. Procedures laid down for employees to report on occupational health and safety incidents, risks, and concerns in addition to use of forums like safety committee meetings conducted regularly. In addition, collective bargaining agreement available in the facilities covers clauses on employee health & safety requirements. There are on-site emergency plans in the facilities to act and handle any occupational health related or environment related emergency. Both internal and external safety audits and risk assessments are carried out in all the manufacturing facilities along with regular inspections & audit of safety equipment used in the facilities. Facilities certified under ISO 45001 have detail OHS manual, procedures and work instructions following ISO standards to manage and improve occupational health & safety performance of the facilities and the Company as a whole.
For further detail about the company OHS systems, procedures, practices and performance, please refer ‘Occupational Health and Safety Performance’ section under ‘Social Impact’ chapter of our latest published third party assured sustainability report available in our company website: https://www.jubilantpharmova.com/sustainability/sustainability-report