33% of customers are public sector organisations
VINCI takes all of these parameters into account in designing and implementing vigilance measures that are relevant and effective with regard to its organisation, business activities and value chain.
Health and safety at work is a priority issue for VINCI. The Group’s aim is to achieve zero accidents, a goal that applies to all employees and external staff working at construction or operating sites managed by a Group company. Due to continually changing jobs, materials, equipment, techniques, processes and new technologies, there is a constant need for vigilance. Above and beyond applying rules and procedures, VINCI actively drives the continuous improvement of its culture of safety for all, a culture that permeates every level of the organisation and involves all employees from site teams to managers, including temporary and subcontractor staff.(*)
VINCI employs the set of strategies illustrated below to embed its culture of safety for all into every level of the Group:
One reference framework for all
The joint declaration entitled “Essential and Fundamental Actions Concerning Occupational Health and Safety”, which was signed by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI and by the Secretary of the European Works Council in 2017, provides the Group’s reference framework. It is available in 23 languages and published on VINCI’s website (https://www.vinci.com/publi/manifeste/sst-2017-06-en.pdf). Steady, constructive social dialogue informed this joint declaration, which is part of VINCI’s continuous efforts to engage all employees in a shared safety culture. It is also intended to help the Group’s partners reach their own safety improvement goals.
At the operational level, the declaration requires that a risk assessment be carried out ahead of every work situation, taking especially meticulous care if the situation was not planned in advance. Appropriate preventive measures arising from the assessment must then be incorporated into operating procedures and processes. In addition to collective protective measures, entities must provide workers with personal protective equipment suited to each work situation and ensure that every worker fully understands the risks associated with their activity and the measures to be followed to reduce them. Employee representatives are kept informed of action taken to prevent workplace accidents and occupational hazards and contribute their own proposals. Occupational health and safety awareness and training programmes are essential to ensuring that all workers understand the risks. Employees must be trained during their work hours and be given clear instructions and explanations relating directly to their job or task.
Since real and sustainable improvement cannot be achieved without measuring outcomes, VINCI assesses the effectiveness of its action using relevant indicators, which are presented and discussed to determine the steps that can be taken to further improve results. Companies methodically and thoroughly investigate every serious accident and share the findings with employee representatives. Efforts to identify hazardous situations and near misses aim not only to reduce the number of accidents, but above all to embed the Group’s safety culture into everyone’s daily work.
