Occupational Health

The injury frequency rate in 2023 increased by 44.2% due to a higher number of workplace accidents and associated injuries. The injury severity rate rose by 12.9% due to a higher number of workplace accidents.

The year-on-year rise in injuries was due to an increase in the number of traffic accidents caused by third parties and a group workplace accident.

Higher LTIFR in the Group’s gas business and power generation companies in 2023 was driven by an increased number of lost time injuries. Lower LTIFR in the Group’s oil business companies is attributable to an increase in the number of man-hours worked.

In the reporting year, the fatal accident rate in the Group’s gas business companies increased by 66.4% year-on-year due to group accidents involving fatalities.

Differences in the numbers of injured male and female workers are due to the statistical difference between women and men working at hazardous industrial facilities.

To reduce accident risks, the Group developed a series of documents, including action plans to prevent workplace incidents, action plans to prevent road accidents and ensure road safety, programs for the reconstruction and re-equipment of the Group’s facilities, etc.

To ensure process safety, the Gazprom Group's facilities have implemented special labor conditions assessment (SLCA) and operational labor conditions control (OC).

The SLCA is held once every five yearsPursuant to Federal Law No. 426-FZ On Special Assessment of Labor Conditions dated December 28, 2013.. It is arranged by the subsidiaries’ occupational health services and implemented by expert organizations included in the relevant register. As part of the SLCA, working environment and working process factors are identified to assess their impact on employees.

The OC is held annually by industrial sanitation laboratories of PJSC Gazprom’s subsidiaries and certified third-party laboratories. They identify harmful and/or hazardous workplace factors (if any) and their impact on employees' health.

Based on the SLCA and OC findings, the following steps are taken:

• Employees are informed about the identified harmful and/or hazardous workplace factors at production sites;
• initiatives are developed and implemented to improve working conditions, including the provision of individual and collective protective equipment;
• mandatory preliminary and periodic medical check-ups are held.

Key occupational diseases develop in employees exposed to production-related chemical and physical factors or experiencing 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 causes and develop and adopt relevant prevention measures.

• Streamlining the labor process to cut the time of employees’ exposure to production 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 2023, the occupational disease rate in the Group’s gas business companies increased by 9.5%, with more incident cases of occupational diseases identified as a result of wider diagnostics coverage and improved diagnostics methods.