Management has a key role to drive safety at their sites and within their functional organizations. Occupational Health and Safety, driven by our General Business Principles and Company Values, is an integral part of our doing business, and must be incorporated into every action we undertake: there is no activity so important or urgent that cannot be done in an appropriate, healthful and safe way.
We care for our people. Each employee, contractor and visitor has the right to a safe working environment. By consistent and continuing efforts, accidents and occupational illnesses can be prevented. All individuals within Philips share this responsibility for achieving a world-class level in Occupational Health and Safety performance. Everyone shall be concerned about his/her person, fellow employees, and public health and company prosperity.
Philips aims to maintain a safe and healthy work environment for its employees, contract labor and visitors, and therefore is committed to do all that is reasonably feasible to:
A number of sites showed outstanding safety performance, for example the Healthcare Pune site in India, which reached a significant milestone by achieving over 4 million man-hours without an LWIC by the end of 2015 (over 3 years without an accident).