Managing occupational health and safety

Our approach to management

GRI 403-1

The Occupational Health and Safety Management System is one of the Company’s key management elements. In 2020, we made substantial improvements to operational safety at our logistics unit, which is most prone to such risks. In 2022, we continued our campaign to instil a strong safety culture across other units and kept employee injury rate as low as possible despite the headcount increase.

Safety management responsibilities are allocated to all heads of business units and specifically appointed officers. The Occupational Health and Safety Management System relies on a centralised approach, with goals and tasks cascaded from the top executives across the hierarchy down to line managers.

The Occupational Health and Safety Management System covers all the Company’s units, with all their employees and contractors. It focuses, among other things, on boosting professional skills and competencies of occupational health and safety engineers.

Magnit regularly reviews its Occupational Health and Safety Management System, with units assessed for compliance with occupational health and safety requirements monthly (logistics), quarterly (larger formats) and once in every three years (smaller formats).

The Company has developed and put in place a system of communicating occupational health and safety requirements to heads of units and store managers. We monitor from time to time the performance of associated duties remotely on a selective basis. In addition, the Company engages external auditors to assess it Occupational Health and Safety Management System, with the latest assessment carried out in 2020.

Key documents

Internal regulations

• Environmental Protection and Safety Policy
• Occupational and Process Safety Policy
• Safe Vehicle Use Policy
• Fire Safety Policy
• Anti-alcohol and Anti-drug Policy
• Regulations on Occupational Health and Safety Management System
• Regulations on Employee Training
• Regulations on Medical Examinations
• Regulations on Accident Investigation

External documents

• Russian Labour Code
• Order of the Russian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection No. 223n On Approval of Regulations on Special Provisions for Investigating Occupational Accidents in Selected Industries and Organisations, Document Forms and Relevant Classifiers for Investigating Occupational Accidents dated 20 April 2022