The Board believes that our people are our most important asset. Our businesses do not include any industrial or manufacturing processes and our staff are mainly office-based. As such, risk of accidents is low. We do acknowledge that we may expose our staff to additional areas of risk which, whilst not unique to Chime (for example, business travel, event organisation and lone or remote working), do require further scrutiny, mitigation and procedural guidance in order to maximise the wellbeing of our staff.In 2008, the Board commissioned a review of our health and safety systems by Safety Exchange Ltd, who provide the Group with specialist expertise in this area. The findings confirmed that our procedures were appropriate but that these should be formalised and publicised within the Group more cohesively. Enhancements were deployed to improve the awareness and the assessment of risks where they do arise in our day-to-day business. The revised policy and procedures were published to staff in September 2008.
