Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic – Occupational Safety

In order to prevent the incidence and minimise the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection (hereinafter, COVID) and to reduce the impact on production processes, all necessary organisational measures to counteract the epidemic and appropriate comprehensive measures are being taken across the group, including:

• At the level of KMG’s Corporate Centre, the Crisis Management Team and response centres at KMG subsidiaries continuously monitor and control the situation and make the necessary managerial decisions to prevent proliferation of COVID, involving action algorithms when COVID is identified, and develop business continuity and business process recovery plans;
• Pre-shift testing for COVID of all shift workers together with contractors and mass testing of workers in SDEs are conducted and employees are educated about the pandemic with awareness of dangers of the disease and the need to take epidemiological precautions;
• Restrictions continue to be imposed on public events;
• Sufficient personal protective equipment and disinfectants are provided for protection of personnel and for disinfection;
• Measures have been put in place to deal with suspected or detected cases, with all workers warned to report immediately at the first sign of symptoms of COVID, positive test results, and liability for concealing or falsifying test results and violations of quarantine;
• Awareness-raising on preventive measures (use of antiseptics, masks, social distance and body temperature measurement), hygiene and disinfection is regularly carried out among workers for prevention of COVID and compliance with anti-epidemiological measures;
• In the event of focal diseases among the employee, quarantine is introduced with a reduction in the number of personnel involved in operations or use of standby teams and, where possible, personnel is transferred to remote work.

Overall, KMG Group continues to implement a set of preventive measures and strengthened sanitary and disinfection measures in accordance with the established regulations on controlling the epidemic.

Since the beginning of the state vaccination campaign, KMG has introduced action plans to manage and promote vaccination among employees, which include active awareness raising to explain how important it is to get a vaccine to achieve collective immunity and ensure steady and continuous work at the Group’s production facilities.

The KMG Group’s employees get vaccinated in local hospitals and private medical institutions. For this, the KMG’s facilities have all necessary conditions: vaccination points set up in central offices, dedicated points at fields and in medical centres.

For the most part, the employees have a positive attitude towards the vaccination campaign and actively participate in it. When each of the two components is received, all employees are entitled to two paid days off.

At that, in accordance with current health authority regulations, workers who have received both components of the vaccine are free to enter the fields without undergoing PCR tests.

As of 31 December 2021, 50,000 employees (76% of the total headcount) had been vaccinated across the group, of whom 48,000 (73%) had been fully vaccinated (both components).

SDEs as well as KMG’s administrative building use the Ashyq application to control access of employees. The Corporate Centre has successfully integrated ACS (Access Control System) with the Ashyq information system (access with red or yellow status is automatically blocked by ACS, when the status changes to green or blue, the access is restored).