Guaranteeing safety
Due to the nature of our business activities, safety is a key issue for VINCI. Our priority is to achieve zero accidents. Enshrined in our Manifesto, this objective applies to everyone working on a VINCI construction or operating site, whether they are employees, temporary staff or subcontractors: occupational health and safety is about all of us!
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Analysing risks and building our health and safety policy
Our health and safety policy is based on the joint declaration on "Essential and Fundamental Actions - Occupational Health and Safety", and aimed at anticipating and preventing all occupational risks, including psychosocial risks. It applies to everyone: our employees, temporary staff and subcontractor staff. It also aims to ensure quality of life in the workplace and the redeployment of employees who have suffered a workplace accident or occupational illness.
Building a common health and safety culture facilitates the sharing of best practices and assessment of existing procedures, and delivers reliable indicators to track progress.
Our areas of action
We have set up an in-house programme to audit health and safety, specifically to monitor the action we take and track performance.
We analyse accidents, present the circumstances surrounding them and action plans to address them to Executive management, take the associated corrective measures, and circulate them.
The Trajeo’h programme redeploys employees who have suffered a workplace accident or occupational illness, and a support unit provides collective or individual counselling.
Developing health and safety governance based on cross-cutting principles
Staff safety is a constant priority that requires the engagement of everyone, both as individuals and as a group. All managers, the Group’s Executive Management and all business units are also heavily involved in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of prevention policies.
We attach major importance to the safety of our own employees, as well as that of temporary workers and the employees of our external contractors. To spread the Group's safety culture, our companies implement a wide range of action plans and initiatives, depending on the specific nature of their business. And as a project owner, we apply our health and safety requirements to the companies working on our infrastructure concessions.
Target
Zero accidents
objective for employees, temporary staff and subcontractors
Our areas of action
- The organisation that coordinates health and safety at Group level brings together the heads of the health and safety networks in all VINCI business lines and divisions, and is under the authority of the Executive Committee.
- We also implement this policy through collective agreements on health and safety and through framework agreements with temporary employment agencies.
- We have obtained ISO 45001 and MASE (French Manual for the Improvement of Safety in Companies) certification.
- Managers are directly responsible for spreading the safety culture day to day through their regular presence at worksites.
- Safety systems are suited to each type of operation and implemented at grassroots level in order to influence worker behaviour and practices.
- Risk-prevention mechanisms include awareness campaigns, e-learning modules, training courses and support mechanisms.
- The STOP culture: everyone has a duty to react when they notice a situation entailing a potential risk.
- More than 2,800 employees are active in the health and safety network.
- Employee training and engagement initiatives (for managers and operation crews).
- Whistle-blowing mechanisms.
- Employee representatives play a prominent role in the system: they suggest measures to improve working conditions and to prevent workplace accidents and occupational hazards.
- Risk prevention measures include awareness and training campaigns (e.g. the Passeport Sécurité, which will gradually become mandatory for all temporary workers involved in our operations).
- Framework contracts with temporary employment agencies include health and safety criteria in selection processes.
- Assessments include questionnaires and improvement plans.
- Whistleblowing mechanisms.
- Contracts with our subcontractors include closer supervision of their activities, reporting obligations and notification processes that can go as far as exclusion if joint activity or safety rules are not followed.
- Subcontractor selection processes include health and safety criteria.
- We publish and circulate our subcontractor relations charter.
2023 key indicators
5.66
Global lost-time workplace accident frequency rate (for VINCI employees), down from 6.10 in 2018
0.37
Workplace accident severity rate (for VINCI employees), down from 0.42 in 2018
74%
Percentage of Group companies with no lost-time workplace accidents, slightly up from 73% in 2021
+2.6M
Hours of hygiene, health and safety training delivered each year
