GSK_ Annual_Report_2021-22

91 • Rewards like increments and bonus are accordingly determined. • Your company provides managers with an opportunity to develop and grow through honest feedback through Manager One80. A survey under this initiative requires team members to give feedback regarding their managers. • Global Employee Recognition is an avenue through which managers can recognize employees championing GSK’s priorities and objectives For Workers There is a support system in place for career development of workers. Your company assesses and develops its field force into First Line Leaders through a holistic program, Lakshya. 9. Health and safety management system: 1. Whether an occupational health and safety management system has been implemented by the entity? (Yes/ No). If yes, what is the coverage of such a system? Your company has a health and safety management system in place. The company is committed to conducting its operations in a responsible manner to protect our employees, the environment, and the community. The EHS system covers all these stakeholders. The overall goal of this control is to provide a safe working environment that is devoid of harm, and incidents and to provide adequate training and awareness on key risks from unsafe working conditions. 2. What are the processes used to identify work-related hazards and assess risks on a routine and non-routine basis by the entity? The company carries out periodic meetings with all operations to identify and assess work-related hazards. There are also awareness initiatives through which employees are made aware of the potential safety risks and they are encouraged to report the same. Your company undertakes extensive work at the Nashik site to train and create awareness among employees for occupational health and safety and work-related hazards such as operating machinery or driving. Your company also undertakes driver safety training and assessments for the commercial field force. Further, there are policies in place to undertake safety assessments of key third party suppliers at the time of onboarding and at periodic intervals thereafter. 3. Whether you have processes for workers to report the work-related hazards and to remove themselves from such risks. Yes, internal controls and systems are in place to report work-related hazards on site. The management has invested in a state-of-the-art facility to reduce exposure to potential health risks. Further, the company has modified machines and improved infrastructure arrangements to reduce the exposure close to nil. 4. Do the employees/ workers of the entity have access to non-occupational medical and healthcare services? 1. Your company employees are covered by medical insurance for occupational as well as non-occupational healthcare cover. Effective January 2022, coverage under the medical insurance scheme for your company’s employees in domains such as maternity coverage and home quarantine expense coverage, has been increased. In alignment with our larger inclusion and diversity initiatives, gender reassignment surgery has also been added to the list of coverages. We have also increased the personal accident coverage and improved the modular plans in health insurance, by giving options to employees to increase their medical coverage and also include their parents by offering negotiated premiums to its employees. 2. Building a positive environment for employees and taking care of their holistic healthcare needs has been an ongoing priority. The preventive healthcare programme, Partnership for Prevention (P4P), continues to be available to all our permanent employees and their dependents, as a corollary of the group medical insurance programme, providing 40 preventive healthcare services at little or no cost. As part of this program, the following benefits are provided - • Preventive screening for cancer, diabetes, physician consultation, sugar cholesterol test, pediatric consultation, etc. • Adult and child immunization programs and COVID vaccinations • Care programs for prenatal care and tobacco cessation 3. Your company also has an Employee Assistance Program under which employees and their immediate family members can connect with a professional counsellor 24/7 to discuss issues such as unwieldy emotions, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, disrupted sleep/ appetite, etc. in an easy to access, voluntary and confidential manner.