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The Health and Safety area has carried out a series of management improvement programmes and
activities in different fields:

Reduced
accident rate

Investigation of 410 incidents to provide and implement
that entailed no injury with specific work lines.
a view to precluding injuries,
learning from errors and For the first time in five years,
establish preventive measures. the annual accident frequency
index is no longer increasing.
12 visits to contracts with The index for the international
an elevated accident rate (9 activity also remained constant
national and 3 international) at 6.30.

2015-2018
Preventive Culture
Improvement Plan

Aqualia has made substantial 3. Refresher training: training methodology and achievement
efforts in recent years events using audiovisual recognition system.
to improve its culture of material recorded at Aqualia
prevention, focusing in facilities to reduce the number
particular on preventive and frequency of unsafe
conduct, leadership conduct and actions
improvement and especially among workers.
on changing the culture for
people at all organisational 4. Implementation of the
levels. “Safety Observations” tool,
where ORP technicians set up a
The following activities learning process on the causes
continued throughout 2017: leading workers to make unsafe
decisions and manage conduct
1. Safety walks with company changes. Moment during one of the training programmes
executives to improve the in the Preventive Culture Improvement Plan.
preventive mindset. 5. Design of new positive
prevention indicators.
2. Implementation of the
“Safety Conversations” tool for 6. Workshops: workshop on
all contracts. the new accident investigation

Aqualia has improved the preventive culture of all its international contracts:
The company organised four seminars with theoretical training and practical workshops
for the purpose of developing shared knowledge for every international contract. Company
professionals from Italy, Mexico, Chile, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab
Emirates and Kosovo met in Spain to participate in these seminars.

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