The commercial and sales teams in the pharmaceutical industry spend a significant amount of time traveling to meet healthcare providers, distributors, and customers across diverse geographies. Road safety is the number one risk in India and road incidents directly impact personal safety, business continuity, and customer engagement.

This session will cover key aspects of road safety including safe driving practices and behaviours, managing fatigue and stress on the road, and the importance of avoiding distractions while driving. Demonstrating leadership in road safety strengthens employee engagement, corporate reputation, supports ESG commitments, and contributes to India’s National Road Safety Mission. By participating, you can help your organizations drive collective action towards a safer, more responsible, and resilient pharmaceutical ecosystem.

Speakers:

Mahesh Chandak

Head of SSHE - South Asia and Global Road Safety Lead, Bayer

Mahesh is a Sustainability, Safety, Health, Environment (SSHE) Leader with 30 years of diverse consulting and industry experience. He heads the SSHE function at Bayer in South Asia and leads the Bayer Global Road Safety Program to promote road safety awareness, ensuring compliance, leveraging tools and digitalization to strengthen road safety culture in the organisation.  He also advocates for sustainability and road safety in industry forums, actively sharing his perspectives. Recognized as Sustainability thought leader in various prestigious industry forums, he is Co-Chair of BCCI sustainability committee and responsible for health & safety activities and part of FICCI Road Safety committee. He is also a nominated jury member for several esteemed SSHE industry awards by CII & BCCI.

Rajani Chavan

SSHE Enablement Lead, South Asia and India Road Safety lead, Bayer

Rajani is a SSHE professional with more than 24 years of work experience in HSE consulting and industry sectors.  She has extensive experience in conducting sustainable supply chain assessments and is well-versed with HSE and Social Management Systems.

In current role, Rajani is HSE business partner for the Bayer Asia seeds product supply business and has enhanced Sustainability and HSE program maturity across own sites, tollers and growers. She represents APAC region in the Bayer Global Human rights community and provides regulatory governance and technical HSE expert support to Bayer India sites. She also leads the India Road Safety program, which has significantly improved in maturity and performance over the past few years and awarded the CII South Region EHS Excellence Award.