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Prysmian Group – 2015 Sustainability Report

Prysmian’s People

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Health and safety

The Prysmian Group is as committed as ever to protecting the health, safety and well-being of its employees

at their places of work. The objective is to promote activities that take increasing account of health, safety

and well-being matters, both within and outside the working environment.

Although not necessarily required by local legislation, the Group has established education and training

programmes on such topics as safety at work, first aid, the fire prevention regulations, the consequence of

alcohol and drug abuse, and environmental matters.

In the firm belief that rules, training and information play a key role in risk management and the prevention of

injuries, the Group directs its activities and regulates key work phases with Work Instructions, which set out

the rules and precautions to be observed, and ensures that they are implemented. For each key work phase,

the residual risk is then calculated, and the necessary measures are defined in order to minimise it.

In order to spread this culture extensively, Prysmian provides training on equipment safety, proper waste

management, and on the safety of machines and installations both during construction and in the

maintenance phase. A spotlight is placed on the personal protective equipment allocated to each worker in

order to mitigate the residual risks associated with the work performed. In order to ensure a concrete and

systematic approach to safety, the Group adopts the OHSAS 18001 health and safety management system,

which is being applied at all production locations.

Partly to ensure compliance with current regulations, the HR functions at country level prepare training plans

for their personnel and determine specific training paths for the various categories of worker, depending on

their roles, duties, levels of responsibility and working environment. The commitment to health and safety

was reinforced once again during 2015, via the coordination of central and local activities under the guidance

of the HSE function. At the start of the year, HSE gathered, analysed and shared with top management the

results achieved in 2014 and the performance of the Group and each Country/Geographical Area,

determined with reference to relevant indicators (total number of events involving the loss of work and

related ‘Frequency Indicator’).

On the basis of the technical evaluations and taking into account the changes and local requirements, the

HSE division has set its objectives for 2015. To facilitate this it has also encouraged a series of support

projects involving various levels of the company, as described below:

making more effective and accepted the process of analysing events and defining corrective and

preventive actions: in the case of serious accidents, analysing the causes in detail, both in order to

contribute to the management of the cases concerned and to identify from them ideas for the prevention

of repetitions at the Group's other operating units;

continuing the training provided on specific safety issues: web-based training sessions were provided

during the year, while at the worldwide meetings, HSE analysed the results and difficulties encountered

during the year by the various Areas and business unit, in order to acquire practice and experience and

to present the project and tools organised by the central HSE division, to enable the increasingly efficient

management of HSE issues;

continuing the support for the HSE functions at Country/Geographical area and unit level in

implementing their health and safety management systems and assessing the safety aspects of new

investment: 24 safety audits were carried out during 2015, including 4 pre-audits designed to check