3.2. Occupational Health

The Gazprom Group identifies and accesses process safety hazards and risks and investigates related incidents in line with STO Gazprom 18000.1-002-2020 Integrated System of Process Safety Management. Hazard Identification and Risk Management for Process Safety Purposes. In the reporting year, the standard was updatedPursuant to order of PJSC Gazprom No. 99 dated March 21, 2022..

In 2022, PJSC Gazprom, its subsidiaries, entities and branches had 27 occupational accidents, which resulted in 39 injuries, including six fatalities.

The main causes of work-related injuries in the reporting year included exposure to extreme temperatures, road traffic accidents, falls and electric shock. We investigated the injury causes as required by the legislation of the Russian Federation and worked out measures to prevent future process safety incidents.

In 2022, work-related injuries were reported by 20 subsidiaries, entities and branches of PJSC Gazprom (28 in 2021).

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.

As part of measures to ensure compliance with road safety requirements at the Gazprom Group facilities, the following documents were drafted and approved in 2022:

• the Comprehensive Plan of Key Measures to Prevent Road Accidents and Ensure Road Safety at Subsidiaries and Entities of PJSC GazpromApproved on August 26, 2022, No. 03-177.;
• PJSC Gazprom’s Guidelines: Motor Vehicle Safety. Technical Requirements for Road Safety at Subsidiaries and Entities of PJSC GazpromAdministrative document dated November 22, 2022, No. 03-3186..

The above documents are aimed at reducing road traffic injuries at the Gazprom Group.

The Gazprom Group 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.

As part of the ISPSM, establishing a safe workplace environment includes two processes: a special labour conditions assessment (SLCA) and operational labor conditions control.

The SLCA is carried out at workplaces once every five years, while the operational labour conditions control is exercised by industrial sanitation units annually.

In 2022, a total of 37,454 workplaces were assessed across the Gazprom Group companies, and 1,093,517 studies and changes of harmful production factors were carried out and made as part of operational labor conditions control.

As a result, 13.2% of workplaces were found to have harmful labor conditions (Class 3). No workplaces exposed to hazardous labor conditions (Class 4) were identified in the companies covered by the ISPSM.

The Gazprom Group cares about the health and well-being of its employee and strives to prevent occupational diseases.

Key occupational diseases occur and develop in employees exposed to production-related chemical and physical factors, as well as physical overload and functional overexertion of certain bodily organs and systems.

Whenever an occupational disease is confirmed, the Group conducts an investigation to identify the disease root causes, and develop and adopt measures to prevent such diseases among employees going forward.

Occupational disease prevention measures at the Gazprom Group:

• streamlining the labor process to cut the time of employees’ exposure to harmful factors;
• upgrading and replacing obsolete equipment associated with high levels of employee exposure to harmful production factors;
• providing employees with modern and effective personal and group protective equipment.

In the reporting year, the Gazprom Group had no fatalities caused by occupational diseases.

In the reporting year, eleven employees of the GroupIncluding one employee at Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat. were found to have occupational diseases.

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.

Work at the Group’s facilities is performed by the employees who have relevant qualifications and the necessary permits. Such employees along with other third parties conducting work at PJSC Gazprom’s facilities are given an induction briefing, a workplace briefing before being admitted to work, and a pre-job briefing.

To enable higher efficiency of interaction with contractors and better safety at investment construction sites, Gazprom has appointed Gazprom InvestA wholly owned subsidiary of PJSC Gazprom. as a single technical customer for implementing investment projects of PJSC Gazprom.

Gazprom Invest exercises three-stage control over the contractors’ compliance with process safety requirements at PJSC Gazprom’s facilities.

Gazprom remains in constant touch with contractors on process safety issues on a 24/7 basis. This enables contractors to report any potential hazards that may result in injuries, employees’ ill health and various incidents. The facilities featuring high process risks have incident prevention working groups set up jointly with contractors.

In the reporting year, the Central Examination Board of PJSC Gazprom assessed the occupational health and ISPSM knowledge of 22 managers of the contractors that previously had incidents or systematically violated process safety requirements.

In 2022, as part of the Capital Project Management open session, the contractors’ managers undertook training in leadership skills for process safety management, and also completed a process safety culture course. 2022 also saw joint training sessions held with the contractors to respond to emergencies at PJSC Gazprom’s capital construction sites.

The Gazprom Group seeks to reduce the number of accidents and incidents at its facilities. To this end, we develop industrial safety action plans and take measures to promptly remedy violations identified by government supervisory agencies and corporate control bodies.

The Group upgrades and repairs equipment, conducts technical inspections, performs diagnostics and examines the industrial safety of technical devices, buildings and structures, holds personnel training in accident prevention and runs comprehensive accident response drills.

As of December 31, 2022, a total of 4,528 hazardous industrial facilities (HIF) of PJSC Gazprom and its 54 subsidiaries, entities and branches were registered in the State Register of Hazardous Industrial Facilities.

2022 saw six accidents at PJSC Gazprom’s HIFs, all affecting the linear part of the gas trunkline. The main accident causes were corrosion processes, factory defects in pipes, as well as defects in welded joints.

In the reporting year, PJSC Gazprom’s HIFs also had four incidents three of them occurring in the linear part of the gas trunkline and one at a gas processing facility.

To prevent fires at its facilities, the Company developed a Fire Safety Organizational and Technological Activities Plan for PJSC Gazprom Facilities in 2022Approved on December 14, 2021, No. 03-229..

The Group monitors the condition of the fire safety systems and holds fire safety training for personnel.

Major emphasis is placed on ensuring fire safety at PJSC Gazprom’s facilities located in forests or areas adjacent to forests.

Having its own fire-fighting units, Gazprom strives to maintain their utmost fire-fighting readiness by conducting regular training and drills. In the reporting year, fire and rescue sport competitions were held, with the fire-fighting units of PJSC Gazprom’s subsidiaries participating.

The property damage caused by the fire at the power generation unit (power transformer) accounted for 99.6% of the total property damage in 2022.