S – Social Responsibility

Production Sanitary and Workplace Hygiene

The Company has implemented an occupational health and safety management system in accordance with RoK laws and international standards for occupational health and safety. The company has a proactive policy to protect its employees’ health and wellness, irrespective of the production process.

The number of non-injury-related fatalities among employees of SDEs increased by 7 cases, or 87.5%, versus 2020. The increase was mainly due to the presence of cardiovascular diseases and complications from coronavirus infection among the employees.

The occupational health and safety management system has compliance assessment tools for provision of medical stations, risk management and medical emergency response arrangement.

The key objectives of the Company’s health and safety management system are:

  • Establishing uniform requirements for the production process to maintain and improve the health of workers;
  • Identifying and reducing the risks (dangerous and harmful occupational factors) through improvement of occupational health and ergonomics, industrial hygiene in the workplace;
  • Applying preventive controls based on the health risk assessment and mitigation;
  • Promoting and encouraging the healthy lifestyle for employees during and after working hours.

NUMBER OF NON-INJURY-RELATED FATALITIES

An assessment of the Company’s occupational health and safety management system and the development of measures to improve it are carried out twice a year (every six months).

The Company regularly implements a range of measures to improve working conditions and prevent occupational diseases at its production facilities.

A working group was established in June 2021 involving two medical experts under the Roadmap to improve the efficiency of health management in KMG Group.

To implement the Roadmap, the health care of KMG Group employees was analysed with a field visit to SDEs: Kazgermunaigas; Embamunaygas; KazTransOil; AR; Kazakhoil Aktobe; KazakhTurkMunay. A Personnel Health Management Programme has been developed.

The strategic initiative to develop this Programme has been incorporated into KMG Strategy for 2022-2031. The Programme is focused on three main areas:

  • dealing with the pandemic and its aftermath;
  • preventing occupational diseases;
  • raising employee awareness and motivation for a healthy lifestyle.

The following actions were taken in 2021:

  1. Health and safety officers have been appointed in SDEs;
  2. Measures for pre-shift health checks of workers and their clearance for work have been strengthened;
  3. Case monitoring of workers with chronic cardiovascular disease (CVD) by a health care provider;
  4. Medical station staff is fully equipped to conduct pre-shift medical examinations;
  5. Work conditions and risks are assessed to determine the age group of workers at risk, and measures are taken to reduce the health and occupational hazards;
  6. Measures for primary prevention of CVDs have been strengthened, including both therapeutic measures during exacerbations and therapeutic measures to prevent them.

The main efforts of KMG are aimed at improving the quality of medical services provided by specialised organisations under contracts, including mandatory preliminary (upon hiring) and periodic medical examinations (screening) for employees engaged in heavy work and work in harmful and hazardous working conditions.

No occupational diseases have been reported in KMG Group.