At Celsia, the health and safety of our employees and contractors are a priority. We believe a safe work environment is essential to well-being and success in what we do.
GRI (3-3) Health and safety in our operations are part of our commitment to sustainability and business excellence. Prioritizing safety allows us to protect our employees and contractors, for them to return home healthily every day, ensure business continuity and strengthen our ability to respond to any eventuality.
Our Management
GRI (3-3) We manage health and safety. proactively and oriented towards performance, framed in a business culture that encourages shared responsibility. This means each team member contributes to a safe work environment. Additionally, we conduct regular risk assessments, incorporate industrial best practices, and use innovative technologies to optimize processes. All our actions are inspired by our principles:
- I take care of myself and of you to experience security comprehensively.
- Work safely, stay with us.
- I can prevent incidents at all times.
- I set an example, I have the right to say “stop” to unsafe actions and conditions.
- Safety promotes sustainability.
I Choose to Take Care of Myself
GRI (3-3) (2-23) (2-24) (2-25) (403-2) (403-4) (403-6) (403-7) I Chose to Take Care of Myself (YEC, for the Spanish original), beyond being the name of our Occupational Health and Safety Management System, is a brand that reflects our determined will to stay healthy and safe. This system, structured in the PHVA (for the Spanish original) continuous improvement cycle, consists of 12 main elements that establish the guidelines and methodologies to promote, prevent and maintain health and safety at the desired level.
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YEC has a comprehensive approach backed by a governance system with interdisciplinary committees in each area, which ensure participation in decisions related to Occupational Health and Safety, monitoring and results management. Moreover, we have a design team and an OHS management team that guide its implementation.
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Governance Scheme
The positive impacts of our management are notable: we guarantee the health and safety of our human talent, strengthen operational resilience, minimize risks and ensure the continuity of our operations. This proactive management responds to ethical regulations, generates a more efficient work environment and consolidates business reputation.
We recognize that daily efforts and continuous training for our employees and contractors is essential to achieve our Occupational Health and Safety goals. In 2023, our training plan focused on addressing the main dangers identified in the risk analysis, the characterization of accidents and the continuation of our YEC School project, specifically aimed at contractors to extend our culture, which is interdependent and requires mutual commitment for comprehensive security.
Processes and Procedures for Reporting Occupational Hazards
GRI (403-2) (2-29) Our safety principles are within the Occupational Health and Safety Policy as guidelines, covering employees, contractors and visitors, and they have the support of senior management for people to be able to express: “I am an example and have the right to say ‘stop’ to unsafe actions and conditions.”
We have an exclusive WhatsApp Business line for reporting unsafe conditions. Any interested party can use it to easily and anonymously make a report, triggering an investigation process in which we maintain confidentiality and support.
Our 2023 results in frequency and severity
Other OHS indicators
Occupational Health and Safety Training
GRI (403-5) (EU-18) We know we must train our employees and contractors to achieve the proposed goals in these topics, in order to improve their capabilities and skills.
were trained in Occupational Health and Safety.
GRI (403-5) The main topics regarding Occupational Health and Safety were:
- Induction and reinduction in Occupational Health and Safety.
- Training in the I Choose to Take Care of Myself tools: I Choose to Observe, Operational Discipline, Incident Investigation and Analysis, and Contractor Management.
- Training in high-risk tasks: height, confined spaces, electrical risk, lifting loads, dangerous energy, and others.
- Training in risk management.
Main Results
GRI (3-3) In 2023, we made decisive progress in consolidating the cultural transformation proposed years ago, and the results demonstrate it. We have a firm conviction that Occupational Health and Safety are fundamental elements of our operational success, and we are committed to continued excellence in these areas, generating sustainable value.
We maintained the trend of zero fatalities among our direct employees, underscoring our dedication to safety as a top priority.
We achieved a significant reduction in the severity index of 64% compared to 2021 and 38% compared to 2022, which demonstrates the positive impact of our preventive measures.
We more precisely monitor compliance with requirements by our contractors, further strengthening our supply chain. Consolidation of the Monitoring, Analysis and Control (MAC) Process. A valuable lesson is that, beyond teaching, it is essential to change our monitoring model. Therefore, we make sure companies and their workers are fully focused on our organizational strategy for greater alignment and effective collaboration.
We started the YEC School project with 10 contractor companies and ended 2023 with 15, with an investment of 7,180 hours of support, to strengthen our partners’ Occupational Health and Safety management.
Our average Safe Acts Index (IAS, for the Spanish original) reached 90.8%, reflecting our employees and contractors’ positive perception of the implemented security practices.
We had a sustained increase in observations, recording a significant increase of 24% in observations made in 2023 (12,417) compared to 2022 (9,445), which shows greater participation and more awareness of safe practices.
We received 8,955 congratulations through our platform I Choose to Observe (YEO, for the Spanish original) for working safely, demonstrating a shared commitment to safety across the organization.
Topic / Indicator | Own indicators | CSA S&P Indicator | SASB indicator | GRI indicator | TCFD | External assurance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frequency and severity indices | C-CT2 | 3.4.3 | (EM-CM-320a.1) | 403-9 | – | |
Incidents | C-CT1 | 3.4.4, 3.4.5 | (EM-CM-320a.1) | 403-9 | – | |
Fatalities and mortality rate | C-CT2 | 3.4.3 | (EM-CM-320a.1) | 403-9 | – | |
Work-related diseases | – | 3.4.2 | – | 403-5, 403-10 | – | |
OHS Training | EU-18 | 3.4.2 | – | 402-2, 403-5 | – | |
Coverage of the occupational safety and health management system | – | – | 403-8 | – | – |
Frequency Index (FI): The frequency with which accidents occur during the workday per million hours worked.
Severity Index (SI): The level of severity of work-related accidents. It represents the number of days lost per 1,000 hours of work.
I Choose to Take Care of Myself (YEC): An internal transformation program to turn security into a life value.
MAC: Monitoring, Analysis and Control, a new area of the organization in charge of monitoring contractor compliance.
COD: Operational Distribution Contract.
YEO: The I Choose to Observe program for behavioral observations.
IAS: The Safe Acts Index is an indicator that shows how safe an area or organization is, measuring people’s behaviors through the YEO program.
