business plan for 2004 - EDP

2003 - Annual Report - EDP
Prevention and Safety Activities
Prevention and safety at work activities at EDP reflect
the results of a long and strong tradition of efforts
directed at achieving increasingly better safety-at-work
conditions. The Group’s target is “ Zero Accidents” and
its understanding is that good practice in the matters of
safety, hygiene and health at work also leads to good
corporate results.
During 2002 Group renewed its Safety Policy, restating
and emphasising the importance of including safety in
every aspect of company life. To this end, prevention
and safety activities in 2003 were largely directed at
operational procedures and methodologies with a view
to the consolidation of a safety, hygiene and health at
work (SHST) system based on the OSHAS 18001
standard.
In this connection, the objective was achieved of
obtaining SHST certification by Lloyd’s Register Quality
Assurance in respect of six thermal and hydroelectric
power stations. Audits are ongoing in respect of the
remaining power stations with a view to obtaining this
certification.
Efforts continued to implement the “Safety Certificate”
and the “Safety Passport”, the target being to ensure its
full application in respect of all EDP service providers
by the end of 2005.
Within the scope of the crisis management plan,
accident-response exercises were carried out at various
industrial and administrative facilities with a view of
testing the effectiveness of the respective internal
emergency plans.
The fact should also be underscored that EDP was
awarded first place in the “2003 Henrique Salgado
Prevention and Risk Management Prize”. This is an
initiative organised by Companhia de Seguros
Tranquilidade designed to distinguish those companies
that, during 2002, implemented prevention and
protection measures able to limit or reduce the effects of
any accidents.
With regard to the number of accidents in the field, there
was a slight reversal of the trend seen in recent years. The
weather conditions early in the year and the complicated
forest-fire season in the summer, both very unfavourable
to the electricity grid, contributed to this situation.
Number of Accidents and Frequency Index
400
14
350
12
300
10
250
200
6.6
7.7 8
150
100
107 119
6
4
50
2
0
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
0
Number of Accidents
Frequency Index (Tw)
54/55