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INTERVIEW Road risks: learning from personal experiences Committed Laila Dolang It's a major issue for us because of the highly specific geography and weather conditions in the countries within our scope. In Norway, Finland, and Sweden in particular, some of our employees travel 500km every day and often have to navigate icy roads in the winter. Yannick Gaillard Employees of the Group's subsidiaries generally spend a lot of time on the road. In our business, road accidents are one of the biggest risks, along with fire risk, and the consequences can be serious. Since 2018 we have conducted numerous awareness campaigns in France, with short videos that have since been translated for all countries. What was the awareness campaign organized at the end of 2020 by Pierre Fabre Nordics? L. D. Every employee with a company car took part, over 35 people. The Group provided excellent support with many statistics on different topics, such as alcohol, sleep, good practices etc. But as well as a formal presentation, we asked employees to discuss their own experiences from a personal viewpoint, in terms of risky situations, in order to share with colleagues their own stories, how they felt during hazardous situations, and their personal advice. This made the workshop a more engaging, interactive, and effective way to broach individual behaviors as the key to success. We had excellent feedback on the workshop. In 2021, we will continue with further training about driving in icy conditions. How does this initiative tie in with the Group's health and safety policy? Y. G. It was part of our 1.2.3 Safety program which aims to improve our efforts to reduce the biggest risks - including road risk - and which is now in place at all of our subsidiaries, just like all other Group procedures. Eventually, we also hope to introduce a Pierre Fabre World Health and Safety Day and publish our Golden Rules, which everybody must learn. The health and safety policy must involve all employees, because it is only by getting them involved as we did for this road safety campaign that we will be able to improve behaviors. to our stakeholders Laila Dolang, HR Manager, Pierre Fabre Nordics (Norway, Finland, Sweden). Yannick Gaillard, Group Health & Safety Director Why is road safety so important for Pierre Fabre Nordics? 5 47 CREATING VALUE 1