Promoting health, safety and inclusion
For People
Committed to health, committed to people.
Our corporate social responsibility applies first and foremost to our people. We endeavor to protect everyone’s safety and preserve the mental and physical health of our employees. We foster an inclusive working environment and challenge the ways we work to become ever-more flexible, cross-divisional and collaborative.
By safeguarding the well-being of every individual, we bolster our collective strength
Diversity and inclusion: a profound belief
An environment that promotes authenticity and encourages people to accept everyone’s differences is an environment that enables employees to flourish and fully realize their potential.
Moreover, we have implemented a long-term #ServierDiversity initiative to combat all forms of discrimination while promoting diversity and developing an increasingly inclusive workplace.
We truly believe that inclusion is hugely positive. This belief runs throughout our publication entitled “Servier’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion”.
#ServierDiversity
Rolled out across the Group, the initiative is structured around three key areas for action:
As a global company, we comply with the laws of the countries in which we operate. All employment decisions are based solely on job-related factors, including the experience, skills and qualifications of the individual
49%
of people occupying managerial positions in the Group in 2024 were women
7
local networks striving to achieve parity in four countries: these structures create networking opportunities, organize events for members to connect with one another, and hold personal development workshops, while also operating leadership and mentoring programs.
Networks to promote gender equality
Several local networks have been set up to help promote gender equality in the workplace. These networks are highly active, organizing networking opportunities, meetings between members, personal development workshops and participation in leadership and mentoring programs. There are seven networks in place in five countries: at the Group’s headquarters, at the R&D site in Paris-Saclay, as well as the production sites of Gidy in France, Arklow in Ireland, Anpharm in Poland, Tianjin in China and Toledo in Spain. Other networks are currently being set up, including at the Bolbec site in France
Making safety a priority
It is by protecting the health and safety of our employees that we are able to foster a fulfilling working environment. Our Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) strategy reflects our promise to offer employees a safe and healthy workplace.
To bolster the safety culture and thereby reduce the total number of accidents, we launched the SAFE (Safety Always For Everyone) program in 2021, which sets out the essential safety rules to follow throughout the Group and gives details of ways to encourage all people working in our facilities to buy into the philosophy.
40%
2030 target: Over 40% reduction in the frequency rate of workplace accidents with lost time compared with 2021/2022
100%
of our industrial facilities carried out an EHS audit as part of the SAFE program
Solidarity through Mécénat Servier
Mécénat Servier represents a collective journey that unites all our employees and partner organizations.
The Mécénat Servier Charity Fund brings together, finances and develops the Group’s charitable initiatives in the following areas:
It reflects our will to conduct ourselves in a manner that benefits the community.
Mécénat Servier has developed four schemes through which our teams can pitch in:
50
Over 50 non-profit organizations funded since 2016
4,200
Over 4,200 hours of skill-based sponsorship completed in 2022-2023 by Group employees
2,046
employee actions in 2022-2023
In 2023, Mécénat Servier launched a new skills-based sponsorship program especially for employees who are close to retirement age to enable them to gradually transition into the next chapter in their lives by enjoying a fully immersive experience within a public interest organization.Eligible employees have the opportunity to join a community project of their choice for a minimum of six months while maintaining their full pay and rights to paid leave. The program is open to all employees who are between six months and two years from full retirement and who have been employed by the Group for at least 10 years.
ACT for Children
Servier has joined forces with Childhood Cancer International (CCI), the IDA Foundation, the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP), Resonance, and World Child Cancer to address disparities in pediatric cancer recovery rates between high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), through the ACT for Children partnership. 80%(3) of children with cancer can be cured when childhood cancer services are accessible, yet only 29% of low-income countries report that cancer medicines are generally available to their populations (compared to 96% of high-income countries1).
Aligned with the WHO CureAll framework, this collaboration aims to transform the landscape of pediatric cancer care in LMICs by providing quality medical care, life-saving medications for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia— the most common childhood cancer—and laying the foundation for long-term, sustainable impact. ACT for Children also works closely with the UICC (Union for International Cancer Control)-led Access to Oncology Medicines Coalition, driving a new model of equitable healthcare for children with cancer.
Four ACT for Children sites have already been set up in 2024 in Armenia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, serving as key hubs for comprehensive care and improvement tracking. The initiative was launched on International Childhood Cancer Day 2025.
For more information, see our video and press release.
Fair and shared growth
Because we are committed to making a positive contribution to the communities in which we are based, we are keen to help bolster the local economy, creating value everywhere we operate.
Socio-economic impact assessment
In 2020, we conducted our first socio-economic impact study in our main operating countries, using the LOCAL FOOTPRINT® methodology. The idea is to measure and optimize long-term value creation in the communities in which we are based.
18
countries covered by the study: France, China, Russia, Canada, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Poland, Australia, Turkey, Romania, Argentina, Hungary, Japan, Egypt, Morocco and Ireland.
215,731
jobs (FTE) supported by Servier
€7.1bn
in GDP generated
For our partners
Being a vigilant, responsible partner
Our ethics and compliance policy serves to ensure we conduct ourselves in an exemplary manner. The policy enables us not only to comply with regulatory requirements regarding business conduct, but also satisfy our stakeholders’ aspirations for fair and balanced collaboration.
Ethics and compliance—living up to our role as a responsible member of the society
Compliance guides everything we do and the way we do it, day in, day out. Further to complying with legislation, regulations and other industry codes, we are constantly enhancing our compliance system by allocating ever-more resources and means, strengthening our anti-corruption system and integrating compliance in our risk management strategy.
The Servier compliance policy encourages all employees to behave in an exemplary manner. It enables us to achieve our strategic objectives with integrity.
Compliance in practice
We pledge to uphold compliance day in, day out by following two key guides: the Code of Conduct, a reference guide developed as part of the Group’s Ethics Charter, and an ethics hotline, which allows anyone to express their concerns and inform the Ethics Bureau of any serious failure to comply with the Code of Conduct or the Ethics Charter.
For our suppliers
We undertake a responsible approach to procurement and make sure we select our suppliers based on their ethical conduct and record of compliance, while also seeking to build a fair relationship with them.
Policies and procedures
Our suppliers are encouraged to adhere to and comply with the principles set out in the following Group reference documents:
Our responsible procurement strategy
Our Responsible Procurement Charter sets out the shared principles that apply to our buyers, suppliers and subcontractors. It was developed around ISO 20400 and requires us to:
90%
2030 target: assess >90% of the top 1,000 suppliers against CSR criteria.
Lasting and responsible relations
The First Class Partner program positions Servier as a partner that cares about the way it conducts itself, and prioritizes collaboration, mutual respect as well as financial and social incentives.
The EcoVadis platform enables us to assess suppliers according to financial, ethical, social and environmental criteria.
60.9/100
average EcoVadis score obtained by the 464 suppliers and subcontractors assessed by the Group (2022/2023).
74%
of our 100 most important suppliers have been assessed on the EcoVadis platform (2022/2023).
[1] WHO https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cancer-in-children