Annual Report 2010 - Enel.com

The Nine Points project was one of the main topics of discussion
at the first meeting of the Safety Steering Committee,
composed of the senior managers who report directly
to the CEO, held on May 26, 2010. Introduced at the
end of last year, the Safety Steering Committee is responsible
for approving the Group’s decisions and policies on
safety matters, encouraging strategic initiatives designed
to spread and foster the growth of the safety culture
within the Group, and periodically reviewing whether
the processes for handling health and safety at the Group
level are effective.
From November 8-14, 2010, International Safety Week
was held for the third year in a row. This Group-wide project
has the goal of focusing the attention of all employees
on safety issues for one full week. This was done through
a great many training and communication initiatives to
increase safety awareness not only among the workers,
but also among contractors and the community, so as to
promote a unified vision and a single approach to safety
in all the countries in which Enel operates. The 2010 edition
of International Safety Week involved 73,600 employees
in 19 countries, with 1,276 events, 23% more
than the previous year. The many initiatives focused on
the following topics: contractors; near misses; emergency
management; and individual and collective responsibility.
The process of integrating with other countries continued
into 2010 with the goal of creating synergies and implementing
programs of excellence in operations. In that regard,
the Visual Safety project was extended to the Generation
and Energy Management, Renewable Energy and
Engineering and Innovation Divisions in an effort to create a
cycle of ongoing improvement based on the sharing of best
practices.
Regarding Endesa, in July 2010 the first meeting of the
Continuous Safety Improvement Committee was held. This
joint Enel-Endesa committee, described in the Coordination
Handbook, is responsible for stimulating ongoing improvement
in safety standards by spreading best practices and
sharing experiences. During the year, the first two meetings
of the Examination Committee were also held to analyze
workplace accidents and deaths that have occurred within
Endesa.
As concerns efforts related specifically to occupational
health and safety, work continued towards obtaining
BS OHSAS 18001 certification for the worker health and
safety management systems of the various Divisions and
companies of the Group.
With regard to the adoption of the compliance model required
by Legislative Decree 231/01, in response to the issue
of Legislative Decree 106/09 in August 2009, special
section F, adopted after the extension of administrative liability
of legal persons related to the crimes of manslaughter
and serious or very serious personal injury committed
in violation of workplace health and safety laws, was updated
and approved by Enel’s Board of Directors in May.
A great deal of safety training was provided for members
of the company’s prevention system. This included the
organization of 30 editions at 12 locations of the annual
refresher course for worker safety representatives (RLSs),
and training and refresher courses were provided for
Coordinators of Safety during the Design and Execution
phase (CSP/CSE).
With regard to workplace accidents (1) , the frequency rate
fell by 57% between 2006 and 2010, reaching 2.77, while
the severity rate fell by 50% over the same period, reaching
0.13. This downward trend was also confirmed by the operational
accident frequency rate introduced last year, which
focuses on certain types of especially serious accidents,
(1) The figures refer to a total of 77,704 employees. The population does not include employees in companies accounted for using the equity method, Albania and
the branches.
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