For Enel, attention to the safety of workers performing contract work is a priority and injuries are not tolerated. The “Zero accidents” goal must also be an objective for the suppliers and contractors that work with the Group.
In this regard, in 2010, as part of the Integrated Nine-Point Safety Improvement Plan – the action plan embodying the Group’s strategy regard occupational safety, on which see chapter 3, section 3.4.1 – Enel continued its activities for the revision of its tender processes, which are aimed at increasing the weight of the occupational safety aspect.
In particular, implementation of the qualification system went ahead, providing for specific and stringent safety conditions, which require a careful assessment of the companies on many points, from their injury record and training to organization and procedures.
Furthermore, with a view to promoting a homogeneous approach to contractors, guidelines were drawn up aimed at establishing the measures to adopt with respect to companies in the event of fatal or serious accidents and/or compliance failures regarding safety discovered during inspections while the work is being performed.
The document applies to the entire Group and specifies the actions to be taken with respect to the different kinds of safety violations observed. The guidelines also establish the actions to undertake in the event a company receives an insufficient score on the parameter dedicated to safety in the vendor rating system or equivalent systems. In effect, the vendor rating system provides for a specific indicator dedicated to safety. The result of the assessment performed is shared with supplier, which, if there are critical problems, must take immediate corrective actions under pain of exclusion from Enel’s supplier register.
In addition to the establishment of mechanisms of prevention, instruments were defined to ensure the maintenance of the requisites regarding safety throughout the entire duration of the relationship. In particular, specific plans for each Division of the Group were drawn up, which provide for an increase in the number of checks, extraordinary programs of inspections, the issue of guidelines on the organizational measures to undertake and the instruments to adopt for performing the operating line checks and the audit of the management system, increasing the number of human resources who perform the activity of overseeing contract work, and the constitution of task forces in areas that are particularly critical with regard to safety.
Last update: 19/07/2011
