Guaranteeing safety
The zero accident objective for all people working on its construction and operation sites remains the Group’s number one priority.
Due to the nature of its business activities, the Group focuses on promoting a true safety culture from the highest executive levels down to managers and site teams. This approach applies to all individuals employees, temporary staff and subcontractors working on a VINCI construction or operating site, as well as customers of managed infrastructure.
The Group’s health and safety policy is overarching and aims to anticipate and prevent all occupational risks and psychosocial risks. 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.
At the Group level and under the Executive Committee’s authority, this policy is managed by the health and safety coordination team, which brings together the heads of health and safety networks in all the business lines. The accident prevention Pivot Clubs and internal collaborative platforms help disseminate and monitor health and safety measures for the community of health and safety coordinators and experts.
In the field, the accident prevention programme is managed by a network of over 2,800 health and safety employees. Group companies implement strict procedures and multiple systems to ensure their employees’ safety: upstream risk analysis, circulation of safety guidelines, 15 minute safety sessions that bring together all individuals involved at a worksite, reporting and analysis of near misses and accidents to identify their root causes, and training tailored to the industry, type of worksite and operational context.
VINCI’s health and safety policy is implemented under the direct responsibility of managers, who are in charge of fostering a safety culture day to day. They receive regular training in safety management, and their practices are assessed. Employee representatives also play a key role in risk prevention, as health and safety are crucial issues in social dialogue.
In 2023, VINCI Construction developed a set of rules designed to solidly anchor a safety culture in the management of its operations. One of these rules sets out a methodological approach aimed at controlling risks at all key stages of a project, from the design phase onwards. These guidelines also encourage everyone to stop work if they fail to understand a situation or are faced with changes that are potentially dangerous. VINCI Autoroutes, for its part, has strengthened its action plan to prevent collisions between emergency vehicles on its network, by focusing on training patrol officers, technological innovation to improve alerts in the event of any danger, and raising driver awareness through regular campaigns run by the VINCI Autoroutes Foundation.
Finally, the principle of stop cards has been extended to all the Group’s activities: everyone has the possibility, if not the duty, to stop a process if they identify a potential risk.
Performance in 2023
Frequency rate
for lost-time workplace accidents
Number of training hours
in health and safety
The > 2,800
employees in the health and safety network implement the Group’s approach on the ground every day.
