2024 Universal Registration Document

Cobra IS demonstrates the same commitment to ensuring the health and safety of its employees, workers from partner companies and its customers. Inspecting health and safety conditions on the ground is essential for Cobra IS. The stop work procedure has been put in place throughout the company. This policy is applied without fear of repercussions and is viewed as a collaborative approach that improves risk awareness and perception levels, while promoting responsible and cautious behaviour. Incident reports offer a collaborative safety tool, through which employee participation is encouraged to help create a safer and healthier work environment. Lastly, entity directors lead safety meetings every Monday to share lessons learned from incidents and accidents, as well as safety improvement actions, and new standards and protocols, for instance. These sessions offer a weekly window to connect with the personnel working on the ground, with a focus on safety aspects.

Actions

Prevention of health and safety risks

Prevention is implemented on a daily basis through various actions, including the following:

• Upstream risk analysis is combined with applications used to report risk situations, near misses and accidents. This information is compared to better analyse trends and feedback. The findings are then used to improve prevention programmes for similar risks and businesses across a business line’s scope, and more broadly throughout the Group.
• Training adapted to each business, type of site and operational environment is a key component of the Group’s health and safety approach, complemented by the coordination of sector-specific actions. More than 2.3 million hours of training were provided on hygiene, health and safety in 2024.
• Working closely on the ground, accident prevention Pivot Clubs and internal collaboration platforms help disseminate and monitor actions for the community of managers, coordinators and experts. Deployed across the Group and tailored to specific priority issues and different geographical areas, the Pivot Clubs help strengthen levels of expertise, develop synergies and enable successful initiatives to potentially be scaled up. This is illustrated by the responsible driving training plan that was successfully launched in 2023.
• To promote a shared safety culture, events are organised each year by the Group’s entities, such as Safety Days – a week dedicated to safety on a Group-wide scale, across its sites and subsidiaries. Partners, subcontractors and even temporary staff can take part in these events alongside VINCI employees.
• Regular visits to production sites by members of management, from all levels, are an integral part of the Group’s culture. Each visit leads to a feedback session on the organisation of production and safety.
• They are rounded out by short safety-focused events organised to ensure close alignment with operations, such as the safety briefings before anyone starts a new position and the 15-minute safety sessions that bring together all the individuals involved at a worksite.
• The stop work procedure requires any individual or collective action to be stopped when a situation involves a clear risk of an accident. This is not simply an option, but a collective duty of vigilance for everyone involved.

Looking to participate in and financially support a research programme on ensuring safety in the future, VINCI is also a member of the Institute for an Industrial Safety Culture (Icsi) and the Foundation for Industrial Safety Culture (Foncsi).

To identify emerging risks, the Health and Safety Coordination unit also launches foresight approaches. Leonard, VINCI’s innovation and foresight platform, has led a mission to list health and safety innovations both within and outside the Group, develop approaches to recognise solutions that optimise data and make use of predictive AI technology, and identify new or growing risks. This mission is continuing to move forward, while adding a focus on climate change in particular and its impacts on employee health and safety. The aim is to anticipate the risk factors linked in particular to transformations affecting businesses. For example, the growing number of renovation projects could result in new health risks (working at polluted sites, etc.).

Each business line also adopts specific actions adapted to its activities, types of site and contexts. They aim to address the risks identified in each case.

Following the joint work carried out for the business line on managing unexpected circumstances in 2023, VINCI Construction’s Safety Days in 2024 were organised by each division around a specific theme, in line with its priorities. A video message from the Chairman of VINCI Construction was shared with all the employees as part of this event. On 4 July 2024, VINCI Construction and the French Professional Agency for Risk Prevention in Building and Civil Engineering (OPPBTP) signed a partnership agreement to ramp up their collaboration to prevent workplace accidents and optimise results. This groundbreaking agreement, signed for two years, will enable the OPPBTP’s services to be distributed more effectively among VINCI Construction employees, while supporting VINCI Construction’s partners and subcontractors to improve their prevention practices. Lastly, VINCI Construction joined the construction cluster of the strategic analysis initiative “Safety skills and careers by 2040”, under the new programme led by Foncsi.

In 2024, VINCI Concessions further strengthened its safety culture, enhancing its “Safety Stories” video series in which employees share their personal initiatives to ensure safety on the ground, promoting collective and proactive vigilance. A safety awareness initiative was also rolled out for visitors to explain potential risks and guidelines before accessing the operational areas of built structures. Organised in May 2024 with the theme “Spot & Stop”, the Safety Week campaign engaged 100% of the entities through practical workshops, further strengthening everyone’s commitment to safety. Lastly, the sharing of lessons learned was also ramped up with Safety Flash sessions to share operational feedback, communicating on the root causes of accidents and promoting corrective measures to prevent risks across the business line’s entire network.

VINCI Autoroutes is committed to promoting responsibility among all its stakeholders – from road users to companies carrying out work and breakdown or accident response teams – to ensure the health and safety of all motorway employees. In 2024, VINCI Autoroutes renewed its touring exhibition entitled “Quand allez-vous percuter ?” (When is it going to hit home?) alongside the VINCI Autoroutes Foundation, and launched its national “Protecting lives” campaign to make users aware of the risks faced by personnel working on motorways. This year, the first observatory on collisions involving response vehicles was set up, with the participation of employee representatives, and this initiative will continue moving forward in 2025.