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Attracting, developing and retaining talents
• in control of systems designed to protect
facilities (tank maintenance, training in
operating fire-fighting systems, etc.);
• through partnerships with providers,
such as the Association for Prevention
in the Transport of Petroleum Products
(Association pour la Prévention dans le
Transport d’Hydrocarbures – APTH), which
provides training and assistance to safety
advisers, the Association of Training in the
Trading of Fuel (Association de Formation
dans le Négoce des Combustibles –
Asfoneco), the Red Cross, etc.
More generally, the Group kept up its risk
prevention work with more than 30% of
employees trained in health and safety
(31.5% in 2018, compared with 36.5% in 2017).
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES TRAINED IN HEALTH AND SAFETY
2018 2017
Rubis Terminal (storage) 254 154
Rubis Énergie (distribution/support and services) 863 1,150
TOTAL 1,117 1,304
5.3.3 ENSURING HEALTH, SAFETY AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN
THE WORKPLACE
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The health, safety and well-being of
employees have been priorities for the
Group for a number of years. They are closely
monitored and are the subject of specific
policies and/or targeted measures
5.3.3.1 HEALTH AND SAFETY
Personal health and safety is key to the
Group’s social policy. These risks affect
both employees and staff from external
companies (health and safety at work), as well
as customers and local residents living near
sites operated by the Group.
Rubis’ Code of Ethics sets out a general
framework for the Group’s safety culture,
which requires all employees to act
responsibly when performing their
duties, comply with the health, safety and
environmental protection procedures on site,
and pay particular attention to compliance
of all parties (colleagues, suppliers, external
service providers, etc.). On this basis, a
quality health, safety and environmental
(QHSE) policy was devised by Rubis Énergie
and Rubis Terminal, to protect the physical
integrity of their workers and minimize the
impacts of any major accidents. Details of this
policy and the measures put in place appear
in section 5.2.
Operating subsidiaries’ efforts to improve
health and safety by raising employee
awareness of the risks related to the activities
(section 5.3.2.2) and improving QHSE
procedures (section 5.2), have gradually
reduced the frequency of workplace
accidents, which have almost halved over the
last 4 years (9.7 in 2015 compared with 5 in
2018, per million hours worked).
CHANGE IN FREQUENCY OF ACCIDENTS AT WORK AND IN THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES RECEIVING TRAINING
12
10
3,000
2,500
8
2,000
6
1,500
4
1,000
2
500
0
0
2015
2016
2017 2018
Frequency rate of accidents at work (per million hours worked)
Number of employees receiving training
The rate of absenteeism for workplace
accidents and occupational illnesses is
still very low across the Group as a whole,
standing at 0.14% in 2018. Annual fluctuations
were largely due to certain long-term
absences, which have a more pronounced
impact on the figures of companies with few
employees.
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