Occupational Health and Safety Management System
System-based application of the guiding principles of the Policy, the uniform methodology for the identification and assessment of occupational risks allows the Company to reduce the impact of harmful and hazardous production factors in the workplace, to allocate targeted funds to solve the most important labor protection problems.
Priority goals and objectives aimed at reducing occupational risks make an integral part of the planning process; they are included in Occupational Health and Safety Objective Achievement Program. Goals are updated annually and assume the special assessment and the improvement of working conditions, reducing injuries, increasing awareness and competence to perform job tasks in a safe manner. In 2017 these positions were also a priority.
Development and improvement of safety culture is the priority direction within the corporate Integrated Management System. In 2016 TVEL JSC initiated the process of incorporation of safety culture into the Management System. Organizational and functional structure and core elements of development and improvement of safety culture in TVEL Fuel Company were developed and introduced.
Standard of the Fuel Company "Procedure for Development and Improvement of Safety Culture" is implemented by TVEL JSC, which is a single document regulating the development of safety culture in TVEL JSC and its subsidiaries. Introduction of the Standard includes working out of the documentation for development and improvement of safety culture, training of personnel, self-evaluation and external evaluation of the safety culture level. In accordance with the Standard the Company undertakes to develop and implement the single comprehensive plan of actions for improvement of the safety culture on a yearly basis.
Occupational Safety Management System in TVEL JSC define duties of managers, specialists and other workers in issues of labor protection. Local regulatory documents on labor protection include instructions, lists, logs. The Company organizes trainings and assessment of knowledge, briefings, including for representatives of contracting organizations.
TVEL JSC holds annually the meetings of technical directors and managers for nuclear and radiation safety, occupational safety and environmental protection. During such meetings participants exchange their thoughts, share best practices with the colleagues and report on the measures taken to address the problems. All participants are notified about the occurred accidents, causes of such accidents, and organizational and technical actions taken. Following the results of the meeting, a decision was adopted with instructions for further reduction of injury rates and the measures to improve working conditions
The complex and special-purpose inspections on security assurance are held to assess the functioning of OHS management system and implementation of measures. The inspections also cover enterprises' subsidiaries and contracting organizations rendering their services in the territory of the enterprises included into the management system of TVEL Fuel Company.
In the subsidiaries of TVEL JSC there have been established and are functioning the Tripartite Committees on Occupational Safety and Security, composed of representatives of management, workers and unions (such committees cover 98.5% of the total number of TVEL Fuel Company's workers), including CFR 3 and CFR 4). All operating collective agreements of the Fuel Company contain the provisions dealing with occupational health and safety issues.
The institution of public representatives responsible for labor protection is continuously improved from year to year; these are employees, who in addition to their main duties perform supervisory functions on labor protection, record violations of labor protection requirements, submit proposals for elimination of violations and improve working conditions, participate in days of labor protection, etc. In recent years, trade unions and enterprises of TVEL Fuel Company have organized and implemented evaluation system for public representatives performance. Following the results of such evaluation, the Company made arrangements for moral and material incentives for their performance.
About 76.8 thousand SFIs submitted in 2017 were focused on improving the safety culture.
The Company spent grand total* of RUB 1.9 bln or RUB 64.9 thous. per each employee on labor protection arrangements in 2017.
Accident frequency rate (determines the number of casualties per 1.000 of workers) FR in 2017 was 0.1, injuries were recorded only at three enterprises. LTIFR (Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate, 1 mln. man/hour decreased and was 0.06 (0.09 in 2016). However, the severity of injuries has increased. In 2017, there were two death cases - at SGChE JSC and KMZ PJSC, and one severe injury at ChMP JSC. The cause of injuries at SChC JSC and ChMP JSC was poor organization of work, at KMZ PJSC the reason was violation of labor discipline by the injured person. There were also accidents in contract organizations that occurred on the site of UEIP JSC: one severe injury (Corvette LLC) and one fatal casualty (Stimul-SN DPC LLC)*. The first occurred due to violation of safety requirements during vehicle operation, the second one - due to the non-use of personal protection equipment by the injured person.
Following the results of the strategic session 2017 with participation of technical directors of the companies, an analysis was made of fatal and severe accidents occurred at the Fuel Company enterprises over the past 10 years, and also typical causes were identified that result in violation of labor protection requirements and accidents, hazardous areas and production conversions were specified, lists of possible emergency situations were prepared, and solutions for localizing possible incidents were defined.
The Comprehensive Action Plan was implemented in 2017 to prevent accidents, including severe and fatal ones at TVEL Fuel Company enterprises, including subsidiaries and contractors operating on the territories of enterprises. Video systems to monitor technological processes and prevent injuries were installed at hazardous industrial sectors of enterprises.
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Indicator | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|
Average Industrial Injuries Frequency Rate (IIFR) | 0.23 | 0.16 | 0.1 |
Injury Rate (IR) | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
Occupational Disease Rate (ODR) | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 |
Absentee Rate (AR) | 1.88 | 2.65 | 2.55 |
Lost Day Rate (LDR) | 1.90 | 0.40 | 0.58 |
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No emergencies at hazardous facilities or mass accidents occurred during the reporting period.
Registration of accidents and generation of reports are carried out on the basis of the following regulatory documents:
- Labor Code of the Russian Federation (Articles 227-231);
- Provisions on Specifics of Investigation of Industrial Accidents in Certain Sectors and Organizations (Appendix No. 2 to the Decree of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation No. 73 dated November 24, 2002).
Each organization of TVEL Fuel Company having hazardous production facilities, implemented measures to ensure industrial safety, which allowed to reduce hazardous chemicals and to lower the hazard class of production facilities.
No violations of safety parameters or limits of the effective and equivalent doses set by the nuclear and radiation safety regulations were registered at the subsidiaries of the Company in 2017.
All production enterprises of the Company operate within the approved effective dose limits applicable to the personnel, no Group A personnel is available (individuals exposed to the effective dose of 100+ mSv and more over a period of 5 successive years, or individuals exposed to annual effective dose of 50+mSv and more).
In 2017, the Department for Nuclear, Radiation, Industrial and Environmental Safety of TVEL JSC together with the Inspectorate for Control over Safety of Nuclear and Radiation Hazard Facilities of TVEL JSC carried out 15 inspections, including 5 unscheduled inspections by the orders of the TVEL JSC management. The inspections revealed 878 violations (676 violations were revealed in 2016).
In 2017 the enterprises of TVEL Fuel Company:
- did not register any INES events at level 2 and above;
- did not exceed limits of annual effective radiation doses of the personnel;
- had no Group A personnel exposed to effective radiation dose 100 mSv and above over any successive 5 years.
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in 2015-2017, mSv
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in 2015-2017, mSv
For the purposes of prevention and mitigation of the impact of hazardous and harmful production factors the workers in harmful and hazardous working environments are provided with special and properly certified free clothing, footwear and individual protection means. Average cost of individual protection equipment per each worker exposed to hazardous or harmful working environments in 2017 amounted to RUB 14.2 thous.
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by individual irradiation dose in 2017, person
In accordance with provisions of federal laws, TVEL Fuel Company organizes regular medical examination of its workers involved in operations with hazardous and harmful factors. Workers involved in operations in harmful conditions are entitled to privileges and bonuses in accordance with applicable laws of the Russian Federation and the "List of Occupations and Positions of Workers and MSE Entitled to the Early Retirement and Benefits for Working in Unfavorable Labor Conditions", including medical and preventive meals, compensations, extra leaves, etc. Subsidiaries of the Fuel Company implement programs of voluntary health insurance, accidents and sickness insurance, and a health resort treatment program.
Industrial sites of the Company's subsidiaries are subject to regular control of hazardous chemical content in waste water, exhaust from ventilation systems, radiation and chemical status monitoring, organization and performance of all kinds of supervision in accordance with the production control programs.
Certification of work places at the subsidiaries of TVEL FC serves to promote the assessment of conditions and labor safety at the said work places, establish the extent of deviation from parameters of the production environment and work process, and results thereof serve as the basis for scheduling the arrangements for the improvement of labor conditions.
All subsidiaries provide regular labor safety training to their workers in accordance with GOST 12.0.004-90 and fire safety training in accordance with Federal Law No. 69-FZ "On Fire Safety", as well as all types of briefings and knowledge assessment with respect to the above mentioned spheres. The Company takes preventive measures to mitigate industrial injuries and occupational illness.
In 2017, the average number of training hours per one employee of the Company involved in functioning and maintenance of nuclear and radiation-hazard facilities, standards of nuclear and radiation safety made 416.6 hours (total number of training hours in TVEL Fuel Company was 26.133).
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