Sustainability Report 2018

Catastrophic and Fatal Hazard Assurance programme Glencore Agriculture’s Catastrophic and Fatal Hazard Assurance programme is a continuous process to provide assurance to stakeholders that controls have been introduced and are effective to mitigate risk. The system ensures operational personnel and managers are trained as technical experts or subject matter experts with auditing skills. For every catastrophic hazard and fatal hazard a workbook is developed against the performance criteria of the protocol and is used to audit consistently throughout the business. Each region is expected to have a three-year assurance plan in which catastrophic hazards are audited every year and fatal hazards across the three-year period. Regions must demonstrate how they perform against this assurance plan, and are audited centrally each year. The three levels of assurance audits are: Level 1 – sites audit their own performance against the workbook criteria following their audit plan Level 2 – regions plan and schedule cross-site audits on a risk-based approach against the same criteria as in level 1 Level 3 – an annual assurance plan is developed at a corporate level based on risk issues and risk sites. These are planned, scheduled, resourced and executed under guidance fromhead office. Once the audits have been delivered, action plans are developed and these are tracked andmonitored. Progress against the audit plan and closeouts is reported to the HSEC Committee and the Board. Operational personnel who participated in the assurance process commented that they are taking a number of learnings back to their own sites immediately for improvement. It is part of the continual improvement process: Plan-Do-Check-Act. 7 Glencore Agriculture Sustainability Report 2018