Occupational Health

In 2024, PJSC Gazprom, its subsidiaries and entitiesThe data is provided for gas business companies covered by the ISPSM, excluding Gazprom Mezhregiongaz and Gazprom GNP Holding. had 33 occupational accidents, which resulted in 52 injuries, including 9 fatalities. The number of injuries went down year-on-year thanks to a range of programs and measures seeking to reduce the occupational injury rates.

The main causes of work-related injuries in 2024 included road traffic accidents, falls and the impact of moving or flying parts of machinery or objects.

In 2024, the injury frequency rate went down by 9.8% due to a lower overall number of occupational injuries. The injury severity rate decreased by 0.13% due to fewer work days lost, with a lower overall number of occupational injuries.

Among the reasons of fatalities in the reporting year there were road accidents (three employees died), electric shock (one fatality) and combustion of flammables and clothes (one fatality). Another four fatalities resulted from an emergency situation with railway transport and an air accident (crash).

Lower LTIFR in the Gazprom Group’s gas business and power generation companies in 2024 was driven by fewer persons injured as a result of incidents. Higher LTIFR in the Gazprom Group’s oil business was due to an increased number of lost time injuries.

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 Gazprom Group has a series of documents, including action plans to prevent workplace incidents, action plans to ensure safety at power utilities and fire safety, programs for the reconstruction and re-equipment of the Gazprom Group's facilities.

To mitigate the risks of road accidents, the Gazprom Group took the following measures in 2024.

• New documents were developed, including an action plan to ensure road safetyThe Comprehensive Plan of Key Measures to Prevent Road Accidents and Ensure Road Safety at Subsidiaries and Entities of PJSC Gazprom, approved by PJSC Gazprom’s administrative document No. 03-258 dated September 12, 2024., a motor vehicle safety standardSTO Gazprom 18000.2-014-2021 Motor Vehicle Safety. General Requirements for Road Safety at Subsidiaries and Entities of PJSC Gazprom, approved by decree of PJSC Gazprom No. 162 dated April 12, 2021., and guidelines with technical requirements for ensuring road safetyPJSC Gazprom’s Guidelines: Motor Vehicle Safety. Technical Requirements for Road Safety at Subsidiaries and Entities of PJSC Gazprom, approved  by order No. 03-3186 of Deputy Chairmanof the Management
  Committee – Head of Department at PJSC Gazprom dated November 22, 2022..
• Pilot projects to ensure road safety were launched at Gazprom Dobycha Astrakhan, Gazprom Dobycha Irkutsk, Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg, Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy, Gazprom Transgaz Krasnodar, and Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk. The projects envisage working groups made up of road safety department employees to organize preventive checks at facilities, exchange successful practices and information on traffic management.
• There were checks to ensure implementation of the Comprehensive Plan of Key Measures to Prevent Road Accidents and Ensure Road Safety, and regular analysis of violations identified with further introduction of relevant remedies.
• We introduced a system using GLONASS data to monitor vehicle traffic at subsidiaries and entities engaged in core operations, and started connection of subsidiaries and entities not engaged in core operations to the corporate GLONASS monitoring system.
• As part of PJSC Gazprom’s Labor Festival, there was an annual professional skills competition for drivers.

To ensure process safety at the Gazprom Group's facilities, special labor conditions assessment (SLCA) and operational labor conditions control are carried out.

The occupational health services of subsidiaries and entities organize SLCA at least once in every five yearsPursuant to Federal Law No. 426-FZ On Special Assessment of Labor Conditions dated December 28, 2013.. The expert organizations included in the relevant register identify working environment and working process factors, and assess their impact on employees.

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

Occupational diseases may develop in the Gazprom Group’s 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;
• working conditions control;
• upgrading and replacing obsolete equipment associated with high levels of employee exposure to harmful production factors;
• informing employees about the identified harmful and/or hazardous workplace factors at production sites;
• providing employees with modern and effective personal and group protective equipment;
• mandatory medical check-ups;
• medical screening, monitoring, and preventive health examinations;
• programs to prevent occupational diseases;
• health resort treatment and employee vacations.

In 2024, the occupational disease rate in the Gazprom Group’s gas business companies grew by 26.1% due to a higher number of employees first diagnosed with occupational diseases (17 persons).