The challenge

Pernod Ricard’s Health & Safety ambition is to become “best in class” in the Wine & Spirits industry, working towards zero Lost Time Accidents within 12 months.

Aligned with its vision, “Créateurs de convivialité”, Pernod Ricard is convinced by the importance of a strong Health & Safety culture, actively working to ensure that everyone is personally involved in ‘Taking Care of Each Other’ through a culture of interdependence.

The HSE team had identified that they needed to update the tools available to support meaningful conversations about safety in their specific work areas, in order to better engage everyone, from top to bottom in the organisation, in the role that they play in creating and sustaining a high reliability safety culture.

The outcome

The guide has been tested with colleagues across Pernod Ricard and has received very positive feedback and is being used as a key tool to keep safety conversations alive and meaningful.

In addition to identifying risks and what to look out for on a day-to-day basis, and how to conduct safety visits, the content doesn’t just reinforce safety procedures, but also the importance of personal responsibility, encouraging colleagues to utilise a ’stop, think, act’ mindset in their drive to create a high reliability safety culture.

Our solution

Using a bespoke approach which represents all areas of Pernod Ricard, we created a guide for making safety part of the conversation that all colleagues would relate to – whether they work in blending and distilling, bottling and packaging, in warehouses or are creating and serving in their bars and restaurants.

The guide is designed to help managers recognise, reduce and review risks in their part of the business, and embed safety into their daily rituals. It brings together all the strands of Pernod Ricard’s approach to safety into one place, creating a clear vision and step by step guide for effective safety processes, providing the information site managers and leaders need to be able to have effective safety conversations with colleagues wherever they are working.