HALCOR SA

Promoting Health and safety issues and raising the employees’ awareness with the aim to ensure the continuous improvement on the safe working conditions and accidents prevention.

To all ELVAL's staff and to contractors’ employees as well (contractors’ employees who work in the company’s premises).

Continuous operation on an annual basis.

A top priority for ELVAL is the health and safety of its employees and associates. The company ensures that it provides a safe working environment, focusing at all times on prevention by:

• consistently implementing the Occupational Health and Safety Management System (certified according to the OHSAS 18001:2007 standard)
• taking all necessary measures
• implementing major investments every year
• getting all the employees to involve and participate with responsibility towards the relevant issues.

ELVAL’s Health and Safety Management System:

• Is based on prevention.
• Seeks to ensure constant improvements of occupational health and safety conditions.
• Focuses on people, to ensure their safety in the workplace.
• Requires that all employees (and associates) participate and contribute.
• Covers all company production facilities.

In order to reduce safety incidents, check and/or eliminate risks, improve the working environment and improve the company’s performance in this sector in general, preventative programmes and measures for occupational health and safety are planned and implemented each year.

Preventative Health Programme for Employees:

• Measurements of harmful agents are taken.
• All employees undergo check-ups.
• The Company runs a fully-equipped infirmary attended daily by a nurse, with regular visits by an occupational physician.
• Confidential medical records are kept for each individual employee.
• A blood bank is kept to meet the needs of employees and their families.
• First aid workshops run in collaboration with the Hellenic Red Cross.

Preventative Safety Programme for Employees:

• Scheduled health and safety inspections take place.
• Accidents and safety incidents are suitably investigated to identify root causes and take corrective and preventative measures.
• Occupational risks are identified and evaluated.
• Measures are taken to constantly reduce risk.
• The most advanced Personal Protection Equipment is procured and used, depending on the requirements of each post.
• Emergency drills are conducted to ensure people are ready and that equipment is working properly.

ELVAL runs an extensive range of training courses to create and foster a "safety climate". Those courses include:

• first aid workshops, run in collaboration with the Hellenic Red Cross
• employee training concerning occupational health and safety issues
• employee training concerning safe conduct
• employee training concerning fire safety
• employee training concerning safety when transporting cargo
• training on safety against electrical hazards
• employee training about emergency response
• training for behavioural safety auditors
• training for machinery and equipment operators (forklift trucks and cranes)
• on-the-job training.

Furthermore, in order to prevent hazards and raise the staff’s awareness, the company has implemented Safe Conduct inspections, since 2008. One important tool ELVAL uses is behavioural safety audits that seek to limit hazards and raise greater awareness among all members of staff. Each day almost all members of ELVAL’s management team carry out scheduled and unscheduled safety visits based on the methodology the company has developed. During those visits members of the management team talk to all employees about safety issues (i.e. how to properly use personal protection equipment or about safety signage and rules) and in general management and employees are engaged in a constructive exchange of views and proposals in order to improve occupational safety.

The company does not cooperate with other associates for this program’s implementation.

All ELVAL's employees

Oinofita Viotias

During the previous five years (2010-2014) the company implemented:

• Over 27,000 hours training the employees on Health and Safety in the workplace issues.
• Over 7,100 Safe Conduct inspections.
• Over 5 million euros in investments on infrastructure and measures of preserving Health and Safety.

ELVAL’S continuous efforts to reinforce Health and Safety in the workplace have a positive impact, since:

• Incidents with lost days were significantly reduced by 60% during the 5 previous years.
• Severity Index of incidents was reduced by 40% during the 5 previous years.
• Frequency Index of incidents was reduced by 55% during the 5 previous years.

However, ELVAL will continue its efforts unabated, since its objective is to constantly reduce safety incidents, in order to eliminate them completely.

The company’s benefits are various and significant, such as:

• The effective management of potential hazards in Occupational Health and Safety.
• The reduction of the accidents that take place in the company.
• The achievement of fully compliance to the legislation and prevention of fines and compensations.
• The improvement of the employees’ morale and productivity.
• The improvement of the company’s public image to the people, local authorities, shareholders investors etc.
• The employees’ oriented training on eliminating or preventing potential hazards.