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Founded in 1966 by Pierre Bellon, Sodexo has more than 391,000 employees worldwide. The Group’s development is built on fundamentals that unite our teams and give Sodexo its unique personality. These fundamentals are expressed through our values and ethical principles. More on our fundamentals.

Every day, millions of people rely on Sodexo to provide On-site Service Solutions safely. As a global leader, we offer safe solutions that meet the needs of our consumers, even in extreme conditions.

Ensure high safety standards

To ensure high safety standards at all our sites, we:

  • implement our global food safety, safety and hygiene policy throughout the Group
  • harmonize our Facilities Management HSE policies and define global standards
  • develop and implement safety programs with our clients and suppliers
  • define key indicators to monitor policy implementation and safety initiatives
  • implement self-inspection, audit programs, incident responses, analysis and learning.

Quality, Health and Safety professionals

As our clients increasingly expect integrated and global solutions, our international network of Quality, Health and Safety professionals are collaborating to ensure the safety of our consumers by seeing to it that our suppliers' products are of the highest quality with the best available level of traceability and by applying quality standards at our sites.

In 2009, Sodexo launched a Global Food Safety Policy. In 2010, we deployed a Global Incident Reporting and Response System to improve our capability to manage food and occupational safety on an international basis. We also are developing global Facilities Management safety policies and standards.