Sustainability Report 2014 Lek d.d.

Sustainability Report 2014 – Lek d.d. Labour 58 82 GRI G4-DMA 3.3.7 Health promotion program 82 The duties of employers with respect to ensuring health and safety at work and promoting health in the workplace are laid down in the Health and Safety at Work Act (ZVZD-1). According to the Act, the employer should develop a com- prehensive preventive policy that includes workplace health promotion programs. Health promotion is at Lek, a Sandoz company, a process that enables employees to take control of health in their own hands and represents a joint effort of both the company and workers to improve their health and well-being. The "Be Healthy" program is an initiative aiming to improve the health of our employees, designed on the basis of risk assessments for individual jobs, reports from periodic medi- cal examinations and individual medical reports. It is imple- mented across the entire Novartis group around the world. It is designed to promote a healthy lifestyle, share knowled- ge and experience and prevent injuries and illnesses which could affect associates’ private and professional life. The Be Healthy program is based on four pillars Expected benefits Workers who work in an improved working environment are healthier and more motivated. As a result, the following can be expected: • less absenteeism, • greater resistance of employees (the employees main- tain and improve their health), • satisfaction of employees, • eduction and easier management of negative impacts of stress, • reduction of risk factors such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar and cholesterol, which lead to a gre- ater prevalence of cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes, • higher quality of products and services and • higher reputation of the organization. MOVE – increasing exercise. CHOOSE – choosing healthy food options and appropriate diet for staying in good shape at home as well as at work/lectures on balanced diet. KNOW – knowing the values of key health indicators. MANAGE – ongoing support for employees/lectures on stress management. MOVE CHOOSE KNOW MANAGE 16 weeks, 350 associates, countless new steps Between 8 and 12 September we once again successfully carried out the Be Healthy Celebration Week. All Lek’s sites participated in this global Be Healthy initiative and we all shared good practices across Novartis. The Global Corporate Challenge, a health promotion pro- gram, is an international initiative calling on companies to encourage employees to embrace a healthy and active life. This time, 350 Lek associates participated in this program for 16 weeks, each of them received a pedometer for counting steps which were regularly recorded into a web or mobile application. Be Healthy initiative The associates were spinning the health-wheel and carried out preventative activities.