REPRESENTATION WITHIN THE HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE*

Lastly, we understand the importance of continuous review and improvement in up-keeping our health and safety performance.

Accordingly, all matters on occupational health and safety is discussed in our monthly management meetings in line with our monthly safety reporting requirements. This is further complemented with the role of our internal and external safety audits which allow us to identify ways of improving our processes at all levels of the Group. Our grievance mechanism also covers health and safety in the workplace, providing all employees with an anonymous channel through which they can raise concerns in this area. Collectively, these measures mean that we are well-equipped to avoid organisational complacency in this critical area.

During FY2020, the COVID-19 outbreak which represented a major health threat has led the Group in establishing comprehensive standard operating procedures that are aimed at minimising any potential risk of exposure faced by employees working onsite. Said procedures include regular temperature checks, compulsory use of face masks, the provision of sanitisers and the implementation of cross-premise disinfection exercises whenever necessary. However, the COVID-19 pandemic was also an event that provided us with a wealth of insights that we can apply in future, thus, giving us additional impetus to improve our health and safety procedures in all aspects while maintaining close consultation with our key stakeholders.

Our Performance

We aim to maintain a Group-wide accident rate of not more than 20 cases per year, and to have 100% of our employees trained on the latest occupational health and safety practices. In line with these goals, our performance in occupational health and safety during FY2020 is detailed below.

* The abovementioned data is relevant to GCCM, ACI and GCBCM as there is no dedicated Health and Safety Committee in GCBCS due to its small scale of operations.

50%

SUSTAINABILITY REPORT (CONT’D)

Subsidiary

GCCM ACI GCBCM GCBCS Total

Indicator

Total number of fatalities 0 0 0 0 0

Total number of injuries 7 7 16 0 30

*Total number of occupational disease cases 0 0 0 0 0

*Total number of incidents resulting in lost

workdays 7 4 0 0 11

*Total number of missed (absentee) days 7 58 0 0 65

Note:

* Total number of occupational disease cases = The number of cases resulting from disease contracted primarily as a result of an exposure to risk factors arising from work activity

* Total number of incidents resulted in lost workdays = The number of cases that contained lost workdays (each incident only counts as one for the purposes of this calculation, no matter how many days of work were missed as a result)

* Total number of missed (absentee) days = The number of days where worker absent from work because of incapacity of any kind, not just as the result of work-related injury or disease

ADDITIONAL FEATURED SECTION GCB’S EMERGING SUSTAINABILITY TOPICS

Alongside priority topics that we have chosen to focus our main sustainability disclosures on this year, we have committed a considerable amount of time and efforts in building other areas of sustainability to forge a more purposeful future. These areas, also known as emerging topics, are equally important to that of our priority topics. This is because they are the sustainability topics in which we are making early provisions to be able to contribute or make a more positive impact on the stakeholders and its surrounding environment in the foreseeable future in addition to their current efforts.

Although the five topics are developing, we have not foregone initiatives that will help bolster the emerging topics in the hope to enhance our sustainability journey. The table below further summarises these initiatives, which were carried out by the Group for FY2020.

EMERGING TOPICS INITIATIVES & PERFORMANCE Procurement

Practices • Established a group-wide commitment towards 100% traceable and sustainable cocoa ingredients by 2030.

• Signatory of the Cocoa & Forests Initiative to prevent sourcing from deforested regions and support the reforestation of deforested areas.

• Adopts strict sustainable procurement policy and procedures based on international standards and United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) principles and conventions.

Training and Education

• Utilisation of the Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF) to support the Group’s efforts for employee’s training and development.

• Provision of trainings covering a wide range of topics for employees across various departments and allowing employees to expand their horizons beyond their existing focus at work to explore new areas of interest and ensuring utmost employee care.

• Active commitment on driving our efforts in training and education has led to the achievement of 6.18 average training hours per employee in 2020 – 55% greater than the 4 training hours target set.

Non-Discrimination • Commitment to ensure non-discrimination and equal opportunities in the workplace, which is enshrined in our group’s Code of Conduct.

• Promotion of diversity in the workplace by ensuring diversity in our career advance and hiring practices in building a strong culture of inclusivity, opportunity, non-discrimination and fairness throughout our group.

• Establishment of grievances procedures and whistleblowing policy that provides any parties with the necessary platform to report on conduct/ issues remotely related to non- discrimination for the actions of the management.

Local Communities Caring Beyond Cocoa programme which has led to other CSR initiatives and achievements in 2020, as below:

• Internship programme, which has successfully empowered youths through quality education and training-on-the-job;

• Fruit’s Day programme (October – December 2020), which distributed 9,700 fruits to employees;

• Food donations to Food Bank Singapore, which helped support 600 vulnerable families;

• Food donations to low-income students at SMK Kota Masai II, which helped support 180 low-income students;

• Donations to Johor Cheshire Home, which helped support 35 disabled residents;

• COVID-19 relief activities, including personal protection equipment (PPE) contributions.

Customer Safety &

Health • Adoption of international quality control and food safety standards, such as FSSC, IFS, GMP, HACCP, ISO 9001, Halal and Kosher certifications.

• Active role of the research and development team in constantly exploring and integrating best manufacturing standards that maintain and improve the quality of our products.

• Commitment to ensure that every product delivered to customers meet stringent safety and quality control standards.