Sustainability Report 2022/23

Contents

About this

01

Report

Message from

Our Board and 02 Executive

Highlights 04

About Sigma

05

Healthcare

Our value

06

chain

Economic and

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social value

Our approach

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to sustainability

2030

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Plan to

Our people 17

Our

customers and 23 communities

Environment 29

Corporate 33 governance

Appendix - Consolidated 36 data table

Appendix - GRI 38 context index

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Acknowledgement of Country

We respectfully acknowledge the traditional owners of lands across Australia and pay our respects to their elders past and present.

Our head office is located on Bunurong land.

About this report

This Sustainability Report provides information on the overall sustainability management and performance of Sigma Healthcare from 1 February 2022 to

31 January 2023, aligning with the company's financial reporting period.

This report complements Sigma Healthcare's Annual Report, Corporate Governance Statement, Board Charters and Corporate Policies which are publicly available on

our website. The aim of this report is to communicate transparently on the company's material environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics and provide insight on our operational impacts and efforts we have made to manage them over the reporting period.

The report scope is based on Sigma's operational control, including the distribution processes and management systems across Australia. We have considered the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and

the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations in preparing this report. For guidance on alignment with the GRI Standards, a GRI index has been included in the appendix.

Any enquires or feedback about this

Sustainability Report should be directed to

Gary Woodford, Head of Corporate Affairs.

Level 6 M-City Office Building and Business District

2107-2125 Dandenong Road Clayton VIC 3168

E investor.relations@sigmahealthcare.com.auinvestorcentre.sigmahealthcare.com.au

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Message from our Board and Executive

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Welcome to our Sustainability Report 2022/23. This report presents an overview of our approach, performance and initiatives across key ESG matters for our business and our stakeholders.

In 2020/21 we set a 'Plan to 2030' with key goals under each of our sustainability focus areas. This year we continue to provide an update to our stakeholders on our progress, our current focus and our next steps in relation to this plan and our overall sustainability journey. Key highlights from this year are included on the following page.

As the 'engine' behind our sustainability efforts, developing our team for success is one of our top business priorities. We recognise that the passion, expertise and capability of our people are the key drivers of our sustainability outcomes. This year, we continued to support our teams through engagement, development, recognition, and our ongoing efforts to maintain a safe and healthy work environment and a diverse and inclusive culture.

We have made strong progress on our gender diversity aims, with 27% of senior leadership positions now filled by women and 41% of all vacant leadership roles filled by women, in the reporting period. In addition, we maintained 40% representation of women on the Board.

We continued to be endorsed by WORK180* in recognition of our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. Lastly,

our Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) was 1.83 for the year, a decrease of 31% year on year.

Our customers and communities are equally important stakeholders, and we continued to invest in improving customer outcomes, for example, investing in a route optimisation project. This year we delivered over 120 million Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme medicines to community pharmacies and donated over $91,000 worth of essential hygiene and personal care stock items to charities and flood-impacted communities across Australia.

We acknowledge the challenges that climate change is posing to the world and the potential risks and opportunities arising for Sigma. As such, we have set ourselves a phased approach to implementing the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) across its pillars of governance, strategy, risk management, metrics and targets. Linked to this effort, we are pleased to share our own solar generation activities contributed around 19% of total energy consumption this year. Pleasingly, this contributed to our Total Scope 1 and 2 emissions reducing by 23% to 8,613 tCO2e.

Cybersecurity and data privacy presented as a new focus area, and we have made ongoing investment into an ISO 27001 aligned information security program. Additional information on our approach is now included in the Governance section of our report.

In FY23, Sigma established an 'ESG Steering Committee' which now drives and provides oversight on our ESG focus areas, Plan to 2030 and reports ESG progress to the Board on a periodic basis. With these initiatives and developments, we look forward to advancing our sustainability journey over the coming years.

We thank all our stakeholders for their ongoing support.

Regards,

Christine Bartlett

Non-Executive Director, Chair of the

Nomination & Remuneration Committee,

Board Sustainability Sponsor

Gary Woodford

Head of Corporate Affairs, Executive Sustainability Sponsor

  • WORK180 is an organisation dedicated to removing workplace barriers by raising organisational standards so that all women can choose workplaces where they can thrive. Our WORK180 endorsement demonstrates our commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for all women and means that we have met the workplace standards set by WORK180.

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