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Sustainability

Safety and Occupational Health

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

We have adopted the Globally Harmonised System for providing and spreading safety information regarding our products. In addition, we are also members of the Responsible Care program of the Indian Chemical Council and committed to Sustainability; the global chemical industry's unique initiative to improve its Health and Safety.

We have safety teams at two levels- Central and Zonal. While the Central team looks after the overall unit, the Zonal team emphasises the specific zones within the unit. These committees constitute representatives from both management as well as employees. The safety system includes approaches such as:

  • Identification of hazards and assessment of the risk involved in various activities right from product development stage to the delivery stage.
  • Comprehending and incorporating necessary safety measures at the design stage itself.
  • Developing and implementing effective systems such as work permits, mock drills, a system of reporting incidents, identifying the root cause of the same and built-in preventive measures etc.
  • Fire being a major hazard in all the operations, an elaborate firefighting system is installed comprising alarm systems, manual call points, sprinkler systems, pressurized fire hydrant system, fire tenders and well trained human resources to handle emergencies.
  • An ‘On-site emergency’ plan is updated regularly, training imparted, mock drills are organized to fine-tune the emergency plans.
  • Carrying out HAZOP/ HAZAN studies, developing safety data sheets, selection of suitable material of construction, developing standard operating procedures, carrying out hazardous area of classification are some of the several methods adopted to handle safety aspects of company’s operations.

Pharmaceuticals business through Jubilant Pharma Limited is engaged in manufacturing and supply of Radiopharmaceuticals with a network of 49 Radio pharmacies in the US, Allergy Therapy Products, Contract Manufacturing of Sterile Injectables and Non-sterile products, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Solid Dosage Formulations manufacturing facilities in the US, Canada and India.

Jubilant Pharma manufacturing sites have been inspected and certified by a national regulatory agency and by various regulatory agencies like USFDA, Health Canada, AFSSAPS / ANSM – France, EMA, National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition- Hungary, TGA - Australia, PMDA – Japan, KFDA – Korea, COFEPRIS – Mexico, ANVISA – Brazil, CDSCO – India, MOH - Tanzania and MOH - Belarus

The quality system for 3 out of 7 sites are compliant to ISO 9001: 2015 standards, all manufacturing sites are compliant to other regional GMP requirements and ICH Q7. Environmental concerns have been an integral part of all design and Industrial activity. The Environmental, Health and Safety management system, of the unit is compliant to ISO 14001:2015 & BS OHSAS 18001:2007 (2 out of 6 sites).

At Jubilant Pharmova, we take all necessary measures to ensure that the security personnel at the organisation are aware, equipped and trained for handling security-related matters including fire safety, communicating with visitors, escalation of matters, quick decision making, etc. Proper training is given to the security personnel for extinguishing the fire.

Customer Health & Safety

At Jubilant Pharmova, Customer satisfaction & safety is an area of utmost concern, is directly linked to business value. Business Head and Functional Heads are responsible for addressing the issues related to product responsibility aspects of their respective business. They are supported by a dedicated sales and marketing team, Research & Development (R&D) team, Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), Regulatory Affairs (RA) team and other relevant departments.

We have established two able-bodied approaches for Customer Health and Safety. While the devoted R&D, Pharmacovigilance and REACH teams constantly work on to upgrade the product safety information, there are QA & QC Teams who work alongside each other to ensure that the product quality, packaging and labelling of the products are not only strictly in accordance with the customer’s specifications but also matches up to the international guidelines as well as the regulatory requirements as applicable.

The systems are well in place to ensure customer’s health and safety during the transportation, handling as well as usage of the products, depending upon the type of product and nature of its end customers. In the meantime, the R&D Team continuously keeps updating the product’s health and safety information in form of a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) which is made available to the customers. We have adopted the Globally Harmonised System for providing and spreading safety information regarding our products. In addition, we are also members of the Responsible Care program of the Indian Chemical Council and committed to Sustainability; the global chemical industry's unique initiative to improve its Health and Safety.

At Jubilant, we ensure compliance with the national and international product quality & safety standards. The Company manufacturing sites are being inspected and certified by various national & international regulatory agencies like USFDA, Health Canada, EMA, TGA - Australia, PMDA – Japan, KFDA – Korea, ANVISA – Brazil, CDSCO – India, UK MHRA etc.

For further detail about the company systems and performance on customer health & safety and or product health and safety, please refer ‘Product Health & Safety’ section under ‘Customer Satisfaction’ chapter of our latest published third party assured sustainability report available in our company website:

https://www.jubilantpharmova.com/sustainability/sustainability-report. In addition, our latest annual report available in our company website

(https://www.jubilantpharmova.com/investors/financials/annual-reports) updates on our latest activities on customer health and safety issues.