INTEGRATED REPORT 2023

Employee accident frequency rate

For GRTgaz, the safety of employees and contractors is a permanent and crucial objective.

The company’s ambition in terms of health and safety is formalised in an action plan, “Our collective safety ambition”, which is reviewed every year and approved by the chief executive.

The accident frequency results continued their downward trend in 2023, with a 0.8 frequency rate for employees (compared with 1.4 in 2022) and 2.7 for contractors (compared with 3.3 in 2022).

The strengthening of an organisation that encourages synergies between everyone involved in preventing occupational risks is central to this success. An occupational accident prevention and security committee was set up this year, and prevention staff were allocated to the three GRTgaz office sites to provide a presence on the ground. This collective approach enabled us to jointly construct targeted awareness campaigns, including a focus on the risks of travel, which remains the primary cause of accidents for GRTgaz.

The event brought together over 50% of GRTgaz’s employees at 16 sites. The Safety Day was also held again this year, addressing subjects relating to accidents at work and informing the dialogue with staff about the golden rules of safety. Finally, the stability of mechanisms such as safety walkarounds is another key factor in reducing the employee accident frequency rate, since they provide an opportunity to identify and improve employees’ safety practices from a behavioural viewpoint. This type of accident prevention tool will gradually be developed for external contractors next year.