Employee Health and Safety
Our Zero Harm Vision for our People

“The health and safety of our employees is paramountand the management effort by our sites and their leadership is a continual focus. I am proud of our Zero
Harm vision, knowing that this program is making ameaningful impact on our employees”
Brian Greham, Global EHS Director

fully confidential, via our secure data protections which arebuilt into our systems. Our health and wellness programs
include working initiatives related to nutrition, building-inadequate physical activity, stress management, heart healthand more to help our employees improve their health andwellbeing.

We believe that occupational health is an implicit part ofoccupational safety and risk controls. The main difference
between the two is that safety refers to a specific incident orsituation whereas health is about the long-term health of theemployee. Occupational health management at the site levelutilizes the same mechanisms as those employed for
occupational safety. All employee health information is kept

Occupational Health and Safety Governance
CEOChief HROfficerVP, HR GlobalOperationsGlobal EHS
Director

Regional EHS Senior
Manager (APAC)

Senior Regional EHS
Manager (US & EMEA)

Regional EHS Manager(Mexico)

EHS Advisors(site level)Occupational Health & Safety Management
At Teleflex, we have implemented a global occupational
health and safety management system, which is aligned toISO 45001 (OSH Management Systems). Each site also has
a Core Management System (CMS), which is governed by
our Global Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manualand covers all personnel (employees, contractors, visitorsetc.) across our Global Operations and OEM businesses.
Commercial sites are governed by a simplified occupational
health and safety management protocol and each CMS
site must also have a professional acting as EHS advisor.
EHS risk management is a continual focus, and as such theTeleflex EHS Risk Management Process is used to identify
work-related hazards, apply the hierarchy of controls (in orderto eliminate hazards and minimize risks) and identify theright blend of best practice risk controls. We utilize the Plan,
Do, Check, Act (PDCA) model to drive continual improvementof occupational health and safety. Non-Conformity detectionand resolution (via corrective actions) also drive continual
improvement, as do site based EHS Committees, withgovernance and auditing driven by the Global EHS Function.
Quality is driven by the requirement to identify and alignwith published best practice risk controls, with oversight byeach site EHS Advisor and governance via Regional EHS
Managers. The EHS Risk Management process is first utilized
when implementing the initial CMS at the specific site andre-triggered by the site‘s management of change (MOC)
program, which helps capture change in the workplace,equipment, systems and people. This is done by incident
investigations; observation programs; task design/standard
operating procedures, monitoring and supervision andaudit output.
The MOC process triggers the reapplication of our EHS Risk
Management Process when change is identified. Each CMS
also has an EHS Improvements Register (EHSIR), which acts
as a non-conformity register, driving continual improvement.
A focus on our 4P’s model means a strategic approach tomanaging: Place (of work, i.e., safe ‘workplaces’), Plant (safeplant and equipment), Process (management systems) andPeople. We continue to upgrade and improve our facilities
and offices across our global footprint to help ensure
safe workplaces for our employees and others on site. We
continually assess our facilities and the equipment usedwithin them to ensure health and safety considerations arebuilt into their selection, use, operations, and maintenance.
We focus on our management systems at each location to
help ensure governing structures facilitate our Zero Harm
vision, and we continually invest in our people via OHS
training to help ensure we keep them safe and manage
occupational health effectively.

Identifying and Managing Hazards
Within each site’s CMS, there is a process for workers toreport work-related hazards and hazardous situations.
Employees can do this via our Zero Harm Grassroots Teams,
EHS Observations Incentive Drivers, and consultation
mechanisms like our EHS Committee interface. Teleflex’sethics program provides protection to employees from any
reprisals or retaliation and our Open and Just Culture – ouropen and honest reporting environment program – helps
eliminate misplaced culpability. Employees can also remove
themselves from work situations that they believe could
cause injury or ill health and report such situations throughour various reporting mechanisms.

Our incident investigation process was created under theRisk Management Program (RMP) umbrella and aligns with
Teleflex’s global standards for EHS incident management.
The standard requires all EHS incidents to be investigatedand at least one nonconformity to be identified (with correctiveactions). Identification of root cause and corrective action(s)is the mechanism to determine where improvements areneeded in the occupational health and safety management
system.

Employee Consultation
It is particularly important for our employees to have a voice
when it comes to their health and safety. Our Global EHS
Manual requires each site to facilitate employee communication
channels and relay information or concerns to management
about health and safety process changes, changes to site rules,
or management systems. Within each site’s Core Management
System, employees can utilize our Grass Roots Zero Harmteams, the EHS committee interface or our Open and Just
Culture. This also helps to encompass local or regional
employee representative organizations (such as unions) into
the communication and consultation processes. Each site
has a local EHS committee in which employees can participate
and consult. Information about work-related incidents andthe output of investigations to address nonconformities isreadily available at site level.

Health and Safety
Training
At Teleflex, health and safety training is required for all
employees. Through the site’s CMS, each site identifies
specific training that is required for all employees. Before
any new employee starts working at a site, they must attend
induction training, which includes both an orientation andany required EHS trainings. Supervisors and management arealso required to complete the same trainings. Each site
EHS Training Register captures aspects such as: training
requirements, required frequency of retraining, completion
target dates, and completion status. The training courses
detail the roles and responsibilities for the specific jobs aswell as the potential consequences of non-conformity with
EHS risk controls. Each site also has mechanisms in place
to manage and identify any contractor or visitor business
relationships that may require specific occupational healthand safety risk management for sites.

Employee Health andSafety Tracking
We track and monitor Occupational Safety and Healthindicators including health and safety incidents, via multiple
classifications covering non injury, injury and ill-health.
We also use the internationally comparable DART Rate (daysaway/restricted or transfer rate), which is a calculation of thenumber of work-related injuries or illnesses per 100 employees.
Through our ‘Zero Harm’ strategy and processes, we havemaintained a low level of overall injury severity rate and all
this data is shared in our Global Impact Reports each year.

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