Health and safety

We aim to become an industry leader in both health and safety outcomes. Our ultimate goal is for all our workplaces to be free from incidents and injuries.

Why health and safety matters

A safe and healthy working environment is essential for the long-term wellbeing of our people and the sustainability of our business. Our goal is for zero health and safety incidents and injuries.

Our health and safety approach

Our global health and safety program, SafeAgri, enables everyone in our business to focus consistently on creating safer workplaces.

We have a health and safety improvement plan to guide us towards our ultimate goals of zero catastrophic events, zero fatal incidents and an ongoing reduction in our injury rate. 

The plan has three priorities:

• prevent catastrophic events
• eliminate fatal incidents
• reduce the rate of common injuries.

This improvement plan and our approach to health and safety create steady and sustainable improvement through three key programs:

• developing our safety culture
• developing our risk management capabilities
• maintaining effective systems and processes.

We concentrate on doing the things which make a positive impact on safety performance and improve our safety culture.

Our current focus is on driving a culture of reporting, which enables us to identify and correct unsafe conditions or situations prior to causing an incident or injury.

Global programs are a key feature of our approach, but there is also a need for a localized focus on safety issues. Each region develops an annual safety improvement plan, focused on achieving global targets as well as improving local factors that contribute to injuries and incidents.

We expect everybody who works for Viterra, both employees and contractors, to take responsibility for their own safety and for that of their colleagues and communities.