Occupational Health & Safety

Our companies have established a methodology for the identification of risks that takes into account two levels: a strategic level and a processes level, which start from an identification and assessment of said risks, for their corresponding control.

The Enel Group Colombia companies have established a methodology for the identification, verification and monitoring of the legislation that applies to the different activities carried out by the organization. This is in order to ensure that these legal and others requirements are known to the relevant units, and are considered in the establishment, implementation and maintenance of the Integrated Management System (IMS). Legal and other requirements are reviewed at defined intervals.

Human Resources Management and the Colombia Organization define, program and coordinate with the different business lines, the respective activities that ensure the competence of people in processes, and strengthen their competencies through the management of knowledge in training and induction for internal and external personnel, through strategy analysis, process requirements, and the results of the different diagnostic sources, optimizing resources, for the optimal conduction of business.

The Enel Group establishes guidelines for document management taking into account the global guidelines, which are described in the documented information procedure. Likewise, our companies, being part of Enel Group Colombia, are committed to minimizing risks, and therefore have developed different preventive programs aimed at controlling priority risks. Some of them include:
 

•  Management program for risk control of safe work in heights
•  Management program for electrical risk
•  Management program for road safety
•  Program for the prevention of risk due to explosive atmospheres and hot work
•  Program for safe work in confined spaces
•  Preventive program for exposure to hazardous substances and Chemical Risk
•  Management program for mechanical risk intervention
•  Management program for emergency attention
•  Occupational health and hygiene management program and epidemiological surveillance systems
•  Psychosocial risk management program
•  Healthy organization program
•  PCB reduction program
•  Program for the reuse of solid waste
•  BIOFAUNA identification and care program
•  Program for the rational use of resources

At our companies we have developed tools to assess compliance during operations, such as safety inspections, managerial walks and behavior-based observations. Additionally, we have cameras available for capturing operations in real time, allowing this information to be processed and evaluated late

Hazard identification, risk assessment, control determination, incident investigation, policy and objective development and review, changes in occupational Health and Safety and contractor communication are the different spaces that the Enel Group Colombia companies have for worker participation.

Among these spaces are:

• The joint occupational health and safety committee
• Meetings with the collaborating companies and processes
• Interdisciplinary groups for incident analysis
• HSEQ communication channels
• HSEQ network
• Coexistence committee
• Participation in environmental license public hearings

The Enel Group Colombia companies establish the guidelines for the investigation of work incidents/accidents, which begins with the collection of information and ends with the drafting of an accident investigation report.

For the management of environmental and health and safety emergencies in the workplace activities, guidelines have been defined to ensure rapid and effective attention within our companies. These are: identifying, evaluating and adopting the necessary measures for the management of emergency situations and fire attention, as well as possible environmental emergencies, trying to eliminate or minimize the impact on the environment, the risk to collaborators, suppliers and the population.