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EHS 001 – Environmental, Health & Safety Program Policy

1.0 SCOPE

Fox Corporation pledges to protect the health, safety, and working environment of its employees, clients and neighbors. The commitment to Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) is a key objective and extends to all levels of the organization.

The EHS Policy Statement is included as an attachment and is endorsed by the highest level of management at FOX.

2.0 RESPONSIBILITIES

Specific program responsibilities under the EHS program are listed below.

2.1 EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

The ultimate responsibility and authority for establishing and maintaining effective EHS policies rests with the Chief Executive Officer.  The CEO issues the EHS policy statement and assumes periodic EHS management reviews will be provided to the CEO so that the leader can assess information and direct actions that provide continual improvement to the EHS management program and reduce risk in the workplace. Senior management provides visible guidance and operational leadership for implementing the EHS management program, consistent with FOX’s EHS policy in all locations and operations.

Executive Leadership will assess information provided during periodic EHS management reviews and direct actions to continually improve the EHS management program and reduce risk in the workplace.

2.2 DEPARTMENT LEADERSHIP

Department leadership, including directors, managers and supervisors will:

  1. Communicate and implement FOX’s EHS management program and its requirements to employees, visitors, contractors, and vendors.
  2. Take part in ensuring applicable safe work practices and procedures are implemented for departments.
  3. Incorporate EHS requirements and responsibilities into job descriptions and ensure employees know and are trained to safely perform their work activities.
  4. Ensure that routine and periodic job safety assessments and inspections are conducted to identify hazards of existing and new processes, tasks, and equipment.
  5. Ensure that actions are taken to control identified hazards and there is continual improvement of the EHS program.
  6. Provide support to the EHS department for prompt and thorough incident investigations to determine cause and take action to prevent reoccurrence.
  7. Provide timely and necessary information to EHS and Risk Management departments to satisfy the requirements for claims management.
  8. Identify and budget for the financial requirements to ensure compliance with EHS policies and procedures.

2.3 EMPLOYEES

Every FOX employee is responsible for their own safety and for complying with all company and departmental EHS policies and procedures. Each employee is responsible for:

  1. Complying with FOX’s EHS Policy and all other health and safety rules, policies and guidelines and training requirements.
  2. Assuming responsibility for their own safety and promoting a safe work environment.
  3. Not creating hazardous situations or allowing such conditions to remain uncorrected.
  4. Reporting unsafe conditions or EHS-related hazards, emissions or deficiencies in the workplace to their supervisor, department leadership and/or the EHS Department.
  5. Only performing tasks for which they are adequately and competently trained while following the health and safety requirements of assigned work tasks.
  6. Reporting all work-related incidents, injuries, and near misses promptly to their supervisor and the FOX Incident Reporting Hotline.

2.4 ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY DEPARTMENT

The EHS Department is assigned by the Chief Executive Officer and the executive leadership team to manage the development, implementation, and ongoing administration of the EHS management program. The EHS Department will perform the following actions in support of FOX’s EHS management program:

  1. Advise management and employees about their responsibilities under the EHS management program.
  2. Recommend and develop programs to support individual and organizational compliance with applicable EHS-related laws, regulations, policies, guidelines, and best practices. Conduct analyses of occupational incidents and injuries to identify trends and hazards. Use inspections, incident investigations, hazard assessments, and trends to identify areas of improvement of the EHS management program. Provide guidance, technical assistance, and resources to supervisors and managers in identifying evaluating and correcting hazards and unsafe work behaviors.
  3. Collaborate with management on incident investigations to determine root cause and implement appropriate safety controls to prevent future occurrences.
  4. Monitor compliance with the EHS management program including rules and regulations, organizational health and safety policies, programs, and guidelines.
  5. Analyze environmental impacts for trends.
  6. Periodically review and revise EHS policy as well as the overall program objectives.

3.0 PROCEDURE

3.1 OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Each business unit or department must develop and implement an effective EHS management program that addresses safety, accident prevention, fire/life safety, ergonomics, and disaster preparedness measures for employees assigned to their department and/or business unit. This includes an Emergency Action Plan specific to each FOX location.

Departments are responsible for ensuring that significant environmental aspects and health and safety risks are considered when setting their operational objectives and targets. Operations should strive to reduce risk to employees and the Company when making operational decisions and assigning employee work tasks.

3.2 EMPLOYEE TRAINING

All employees will be provided with new employee safety orientation training. The EHS Department will collaborate with executive and department leadership on conducting training needs assessments and developing appropriate training resources for FOX personnel.

3.3 OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENTS

Periodic assessments should be established at the business unit or department level to ensure deficiencies are identified and an effective EHS program remains in place. The EHS Department is responsible for supporting, monitoring, and assessing the management and control of the EHS program. This system of EHS management and compliance assessments and other monitoring activities permit evaluation of the quality of the EHS program, identifying what needs to be improved and how best to target resources.

The EHS Department will assist in these processes, but it will remain the responsibility of supervisors and managers to identify and comply with applicable program elements.

3.4 EHS ASSESSMENTS

The FOX EHS Department has developed audits and inspections to ensure that the EHS Management Program has been properly implemented and maintained. Through site visits, these assessments are coordinated by the EHS Department and conducted regularly with results provided to management.

3.5 COMMUNICATION

FOX has established a process for identifying, accessing, and communicating legal and other requirements that are applicable to all FOX operations. A communications plan is in place to ensure that EHS information is appropriately communicated to internal and external stakeholders.

4.0 ATTACHMENTS

Fox Corporation, Environmental, Health and Safety Policy Statement

 

REVISED: June 2023