PL
Integrated
Report 2021

Occupational health and safety

  • GRI: 403-9
  • GRI: 103-1
  • GRI: 103-2
  • GRI: 103-3

The companies of the Capital Group of Grupa Kęty S.A. have implemented OHS policies compliant with the legal regulations, adequately to the conditions present at the plants, as well as the principles resulting from industry standards.

In the area of safety, preventive measures are of key importance, as they contribute to risk mitigation. These include instructions and the principles of performance and supervision of works, training and instruction for the employees, suggestions systems, and actions aimed at hazards identification and risk assessment. Safety is also monitored in the form of audits.

The area management systems at the Capital Group companies comply with the regulations binding in the respective country. At the companies located in Poland, there are appointed persons responsible for the system or for the particular areas. Teams are appointed to analyse the situation and incidents on a current basis and to identify hazards. Team managers are responsible for the organisation of workplaces in accordance with the regulations, considering protection of employees against accidents at work or occupational diseases, and enforcement of OHS principles abiding by the employees.

Efficient management of the area is possible thanks to procedures defining the paths of conduct in the particular situations, as well as assigning accountability.

As regards safety procedures, in 2021 there were continued actions to limit the pandemic hazards, which included:

1.
Ensuring broad access to protective and hygienic measures
2.
Conducting any activities requiring direct contacts (such as recruitment, training and language courses) though communication platforms
3.
Increase in the scale of remote work
Grupa Kęty S.A. has appointed a team of OHS specialists responsible for monitoring the work environment. In addition, the managers of the particular organisational units appoint teams under their leadership composed of the Corporate OHS Officer, Employee Representative, Shift Foreman and other specialists, as appropriate, who:
  • identify hazards that the employees and contract workers as well as visitors and other people in the workplace may face in a particular job or in a given area of the Company;
  • identify the sources of hazards and possible effects of such hazards;
  • estimate occupational risk;
  • suggest preventative measures aimed at reducing or eradicating occupational risks.

As a result of such measures, the occupational risk for a given job is assessed.

All of the Company employees are subject to the activities of teams responsible for safety at work.

age group 2020 number of people 2021 number of people
Capital Group total 51 55
below 30 9 12
30 – 50 34 29
over 50 8 14
including
companies located in Poland total 45 42
below 30 8 10
30 – 50 29 23
over 50 8 13
other locations total 6 13
below 30 1 2
30 – 50 5 6
over 50 0 5
Grupa Kęty S.A. total 8 9
below 30 2 1
30 – 50 4 3
over 50 2 5

gender 2020 number of people 2021 number of people
Capital Group total 51 55
women 12 20
men 39 35
including
companies located in Poland total 45 42
women 8 15
men 37 27
other locations total 6 13
women 4 5
men 2 8
Grupa Kęty S.A. total 8 9
women 1 1
men 7 8

In 2021, 55 people were injured in accidents at work, including 20 women and 35 men. The injuries included mainly flesh wounds and in 8 cases bones were broken. Each accident was analysed in detail, and subsequently measures were implemented to prevent similar situations in the future.

In its Strategy for the years 2021–2025, the Capital Group assumed health and safety of the employees as one of the priorities of sustainable development. The effectiveness of actions in that regard will be measured with the Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR), i.e. the number of injuries per 100 workers. Our objective is to decrease the rate below 1 as regards occupational health and safety. In 2021, we arrived at the result of 1.2.

 

Additionally, we have provided our employees and their families with a broad access to health care services thanks to the ‘Opieka medyczna S’ medical insurance programme. In 2021 the insurance covered 3,340 employees, which represents 68% of the domestic companies staff.

In 2021, no occupational diseases were reported at the Capital Group companies. An occupational disease is one entered in the list of occupational diseases if, as a result of the working conditions evaluation, it may be indisputably confirmed or assumed with high probability that the disease had been caused by factors harmful to human health occurring in the work environment or in relation to the way work is performed, i.e. ‘occupational exposure’.

68%
of employees covered with insurance

Number of OHS training hours

  • GRI: 403-5

Number of OHS training hours in 2021

2021 Number of training hours for employees (employment contract staff) Is training available to other people whose work is controlled by the organisation? of which training free-of-charge for the employee of which training within working hours of which the number of compulsory training for the employees
Capital Group total 13,436 depending on the company 13,222 13,222 13,109
compulsory training courses 12,728 depending on the company 12,516 12,516 12,728
additional training courses 708 depending on the company 706 706 381
including
companies located in Poland total 11,824 Yes 11,824 11,824 11,531
compulsory training courses 11,308 Yes 11,308 11,308 11,308
additional training courses 516 Yes 516 516 223
other locations total 1,612 depending on the company 1,398 1,398 1,578
compulsory training courses 1,420 depending on the company 1,208 1,208 1,420
additional training courses 192 depending on the company 190 190 158
Grupa Kęty S.A. total 4,611 Yes 4,611 4,611 4,611
compulsory training courses 4,412 Yes 4,412 4,412 4,412
additional training courses 199 Yes 199 199 199

Number of OHS training hours in 2020

2020 Number of training hours for employees (employment contract staff) Is training available to other people whose work is controlled by the organisation? of which training free-of-charge for the employee of which training within working hours of which the number of compulsory training for the employees
Capital Group total 7,993 depending on the company 7,989 7,982 5,988
compulsory training courses 7,566 depending on the company 7,564 7,557 5,588
additional training courses 427 depending on the company 425 425 400
including
companies located in Poland total 6,842 Yes 6,842 6,842 4,866
compulsory training courses 6,442 Yes 6,442 6,442 4,466
additional training courses 400 Yes 400 400 400
other locations total 1,151 depending on the company 1,147 1,140 1,122
compulsory training courses 1,124 depending on the company 1,122 1,115 1,122
additional training courses 27 depending on the company 25 25 0
Grupa Kęty S.A. total 2,688 Yes 2,688 2,688 2,688
compulsory training courses 2,688 Yes 2,688 2,688 2,688
additional training courses – – – –

 

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