5.2. Occupational Health

PJSC Gazprom ensures a safe workplace environment in line with the Action Plan to Improve Working Conditions at PJSC Gazprom entitiesApproved on July 1, 2019, No. 03-157. and plans of activities to improve working conditions of subsidiaries and entities.

Whenever an occupational disease is confirmed, the Company conducts an investigation to understand its root causes and develop and adopt measures to prevent similar situations going forward.

Every year, a special labor conditions assessment (SLCA) is carried out at each workplace of the Gazprom Group companies. Based on its outcomes, activities aimed at the improvement of the employees’ labor conditions are developed and implemented.

Following the results of the SLCA in the reporting year, workplaces with optimal and allowable workplace conditions (Class 1 and 2) account for 86.3% of the total number, and those with harmful labor conditions (Class 3) for 13.7%.

No workplaces exposed to hazardous labor conditions (Class 4) were identified in the companies covered by the ISPSM.

Since 2013, the number of workplaces exposed to harmful and hazardous working environments in the subsidiaries of PJSC Gazprom has declined from 38% to 13.7%. The number of workplaces exposed to harmful working environments was reduced thanks to the implementation of action plans for labor conditions improvement developed by PJSC Gazprom’s subsidiaries.

To improve and ensure sanitation of the working environment, PJSC Gazprom’s subsidiaries developed and implemented over 4,808 activities for a total amount exceeding RUB 2,179.2 million. The working conditions of 6,878 employees were improved.

In 2021, the total number of the Gazprom Group employees who completed training in process safety reached 141,955Data on managers, specialists, and other white-collar staff who completed pre-certification training in industrial safety, occupational health, etc. The number of employees who completed training is stated in man-courses (where one person received

The Company identifies process safety hazards and risks in accordance with STO Gazprom 18000.1-002-2020 Integrated System of Process Safety Management. Hazard Identification and Risk Management for Process Safety Purposes.

An employee shall be obliged to promptly report an incident in a manner provided for in the Rules of Reporting Incidents (Accidents, Fires, Emergencies And Incidents) at PJSC Gazprom, its Branches and Subsidiaries and in accordance with the reporting procedure in place at a given subsidiary or company. Upon receipt of a report of an incident, Gazprom creates an investigation committee to take a record of the circumstances of the incident, collect data about the incident and all the associated events, analyze the available materials, identify the causes and prepare an investigation report. To prevent future incidents, the subsidiary where the incident has occurred shall analyze the results of the investigation to develop and implement measures to prevent process safety incidents.

Every employee is obliged to report any incidents to their immediate supervisor and can do so via a trade union organization or occupational safety officers. In addition, employees can submit proposals on how to improve the ISPSM elements, their expectations in process safety or any other process safety related information.

The procedure of dealing with Hot Line reports, complaints about actual or potential incidents, as well as process safety proposals are regulated by R Gazprom 18000.2-012-2020Approved by Member of the Management Committee, Head of Department Sergey Menshikov on October 30, 2020..

In accordance with STO Gazprom 18000.1-001-2021 Integrated System of Process Safety Management. Key Provisions, as part of the efforts to encourage reporting of incidents, directors of subsidiaries, entities and branches of PJSC Gazprom guarantee that the employees:

• will not be disciplined for reporting workplace health and safety hazards and risks and informing of the actual state of process safety and areas for improvement;
• have the right to refuse to perform work if it puts their life and health at risk as a result of non-compliance with health and safety requirements, unless otherwise provided for by federal laws, until this risk is removed.

In the reporting year, incidents resulted in 43 people being injured, of which 6 people died. The main causes of work-related injuries in 2021 included road traffic accidents, falls and the impact of moving or flying parts of machinery or objects. The Company investigated the injury cases as required by the legislation of the Russian Federation and worked out measures to prevent future process safety incidents.

Three out of six fatalities were caused by breaches of Road Safety Rules, failure to take personal safety measures and non-compliance with vehicle operation requirements. Investigation of the incidents is ongoing.

The differences in the frequency of injuries between women and men are attributable to the statistical difference between women and men working at hazardous industrial facilities.

PJSC Gazprom has a civil defense system in placeCreated and operating in accordance with order of PJSC Gazprom No. 436 dated July 7, 2016..

The civil defense system is comprised of two parts: a corporate civil defense system and a Gas Emergency system:

• the corporate civil defense system of PJSC Gazprom is aimed at streamlining work to ensure civil defense of the staff and inventories of PJSC Gazprom, its subsidiaries and branches;
• the Gas Emergency system is part of a functional subsystem created by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation to prevent and liquidate emergencies at companies and facilities in the energy industry. Its purpose is to develop and implement emergency prevention measures and, if an emergency has occurred, protect employees of PJSC Gazprom, warn people living close to the Company’s hazardous industrial facilities (HIF) of the emergency, improve the resilience of its subsidiaries and branches, mitigate financial damage and liquidate man-made and natural disasters based on the relevant action plans to prevent and liquidate emergencies at the Gazprom Group entities.

In 2019, PJSC Gazprom developed an Action Plan to prevent and liquidate man-made and natural disastersApproved by Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of PJSC Gazprom Vitaly Markelov on December 20, 2019. (the Action Plan). It takes into account the geographical location and the climate of the area where facilities of PJSC Gazprom’s subsidiaries operate, helps assess potential implications there in case of emergencies, defines measures to be taken as part of the corporate system to prevent and liquidate emergencies at PJSC Gazprom and protect workers of the facilities, other people and inventories from emergencies and carry out rescue and other urgent work.

The follow-up analysis showed that the Gazprom Group’s governance bodies and employees are prepared to respond quickly in case of a man-made or natural disaster.

Work at PJSC Gazprom’s facilities is performed by the employees who have relevant qualifications and the necessary permits.

All third parties operating at PJSC Gazprom’s facilities, including contractors, subcontractors and visitors, are given an induction briefing, a workplace briefing before being admitted to work and a pre-job briefing.

As part of these briefings, they are made acquainted with:

• the Occupational, Industrial, Fire and Road Safety Policy of PJSC GazpromApproved by order of PJSC Gazprom No. 416 dated September 17, 2019.;
• results of risk assessment in process safety and risk response measures;
• existing harmful and hazardous occupational factors;
• measures establishing requirements for work organization and processes;
• emergency response and alert measures;
• reported incidents at PJSC Gazprom and relevant preventive measures.

The Gazprom Group seeks to reduce the number of accidents and incidents. To this end, all man-made events are investigated in accordance with STO Gazprom 18000.4-008-2019 Integrated System of Process Safety Management. Analysis of Incident Root Causes. Procedure for Identification and Development of Preventive Measures in order to identify the root causes of incidents. The Group develops measures to prevent process safety incidents.

The main causes of accidents at the Gazprom Group in 2021 included defects of construction, assembly and repairs, corrosion and erosion and a combination of negative factors (climate conditions at the time when the accident occurred, existing defects of welded joints, excessive loading of welded joints of the gas pipeline due to off-design location of the pipeline section).

To reduce the accident rate, the Company implements key programs aimed at cutting accident rate at production facilities:

• Comprehensive Program for Reconstruction and Re-Equipment of Gas Production Facilities for 2022–2026;
• Comprehensive Program for Reconstruction and Re-Equipment of Gas Transmission Facilities of PJSC Gazprom for 2022–2026;
• comprehensive action plans to improve reliability and safety of gas transmission facilities;
• comprehensive draft program for reconstruction and re-equipment of gas and liquid hydrocarbon processing facilities for 2022–2026;
• action plans to prevent incidents based on the results of analysis of the route causes.

To prevent fires at its production facilities, the Company developed a Fire Safety Organizational and Technological Activities Plan for PJSC Gazprom Facilities in 2021Approved by Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of PJSC Gazprom, on December 16, 2020, No. 03-277..

In 2021, PJSC Gazprom took the following fire safety measures:

• developed and implemented initiatives aimed at reducing the number of fires and accidents at PJSC Gazprom’s facilities;
• improved the corporate oversight over the compliance with fire safety requirements;
• monitored the state of the fire safety systems;
• ensured fire safety at PJSC Gazprom’s facilities located in forests or areas adjacent to forests;
• conducted comprehensive training on accident response at PJSC Gazprom’s facilities.

To timely identify threats arising from wildfires in places where gas production and transportation facilities are located and promptly report them to fire-fighting units of the Group’s facilities, PJSC Gazprom and Gazprom Space Systems joined forces to launch a fire monitoring IT service powered by space monitoring technology.