This insight informs actions to prevent a serious accident from happening in similar circumstances. These tools are regularly fine-tuned, to enhance experience sharing when recurring risks are observed at several entities, to develop action plans at the right level of the organisation, to step up efforts and campaigns to prevent a specific risk, and to reassess, as needed, risks identified as major. For example, VINCI Concessions has rolled out an application for sharing analyses of accidents or near misses in a fact sheet format that any entity can view, enabling companies to learn from the similar experiences of others. Emphasis is placed on potentially serious incidents.
Every fatal accident is immediately notified to VINCI’s Executive Management and thoroughly and methodically investigated. All the involved parties participate in an in-depth analysis and a full report is made to VINCI’s Chief Executive Officer, to the relevant members of the Executive Committee and to VINCI’s Vice-President for Human Resources. The report includes a detailed description of the circumstances of the accident, an explanation and analysis of the causes and a presentation of the corrective actions put in place. Its purpose is to ensure that all necessary steps have been taken and shared throughout the Group to improve existing prevention measures and prevent another accident from occurring in similar circumstances. The Bureau members of the European Works Council are also informed and involved. They receive quarterly updates on accidents, regardless of the country where they occurred. This procedure applies systematically, whether the victim is a Group employee, a temporary worker, an employee of a subcontractor, joint contractor or leasing company, or a third party.
The management committees of the Group’s business lines and divisions are kept informed of reports of serious accidents and potentially serious incidents. In addition, health and safety performance is measured and tracked using relevant indicators, which are presented to the management committees of business lines and divisions, to enable improvement actions to be discussed and leadership engagement to be renewed. At VINCI Autoroutes, the management committee examines key indicators every two weeks. Management reviews are also held annually to analyse results obtained and set new goals for the future. At VINCI Concessions, the safety policy is championed by a Safety Committee, which meets twice a year and is chaired by the CEO. At these meetings, the committee assesses the results to date and progress made on action plans. At VINCI Construction, every meeting of managers opens with a safety update; likewise, its executive committee reviews significant events at the start of every meeting and examines results twice a month. At VINCI Energies, prevention and the safety culture form an integral part of the executive committee’s responsibilities.
Presentations are also made to the Strategy and CSR Committee, Remuneration Committee and Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors, in order to evaluate managers’ performance, and to the entire Board of Directors.
The close monitoring carried out by the Group and its business lines and divisions may lead to a third-party audit being commissioned, especially if a key performance indicator is in decline.
Lost-time workplace accident frequency rate, worldwide:
VINCI has made public commitments to respect, protect and promote the rights of people and local communities that may be impacted by its projects and activities. The Group continuously strengthens its procedures to assess and prevent human rights risks, while also assisting its entities to be proactive in this area and develop operational responses. It considers that the human rights challenges faced and the solutions to be implemented are best tackled locally, close to its people and operations. Because it understands that these issues are complex, VINCI also engages in ongoing dialogue and collaboration with its stakeholders and peers.
The sustainability report provides additional information complementing this section (for example, see paragraph 3.1.2, “Processes for interacting with Group employees and their representatives”, page 249; paragraph 3.2, “Human rights and health and safety in the value chain (ESRS S2)”, page 269; and paragraph 3.3.2.2, “Preventing negative impacts on local communities”, page 279).
