Health and Safety Policy (EHS)

Our commitment to the health and safety of our employees and people working on our sites or under our management is a keystone of our sustainability goals. In addition, achieving high levels of pro-active health and safety standards contributes to customer satisfaction, business results and employee motivation. Anywhere Alstom operates, this policy seeks to:

  • prevent workplace injuries and illnesses
  • Improve the working conditions and well-being at work

All managers are responsible for ensuring that Alstom’s health and safety policy is communicated, understood, implemented and maintained throughout the Group. We take our commitment to people so seriously that we’ve set up an health and safety roadmap which assesses a wide range of areas to improve our operations:

  • Leadership site security
  • Training 
  • Contractor management 
  • Management of highly hazardous activities

The health and safety roadmap was updated in 2008 to comply with ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 requirements and continuously improves the way we operate:  143 out of 198 units conducted the EHS roadmap this fiscal year.

Injury Frequency Rate 12 rolling months Alstom March 2011
Injury Frequency Rate 12 rolling months Alstom March 2011
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Alstom’s Zero Serious Accident Programme


Designed to control risk management and reduce injuries throughout its operations, Alstom launched this campaign to:

  • better manage risks related to contractors’ employees
  • update self-assessment criteria 
  • deploy better incident analysis to anticipate accidents 
  • promote a health and safety culture in the workplace

Thanks to the efforts of our EHS culture and Zero Serious Accident programme, we are in line with our objective to have an injury frequency rate below 1 by December 2015.

Safety Awards


The Group’s stakeholders have recognised its environment, health and safety (EHS) performance. Some examples in fiscal year 2010/11:

  • In India, at the Mahan Aluminium Smelter Project in Madhya Pradesh state, the Alstom team installing two fume treatment systems won a safety award from its customer, Hindalco, for no lost hours on safety-related incidents.
  • In the UK, the performance of the Alstom Power’s field service team at Enfield power station was rewarded by its customer, E.ON UK, with five separate awards during the June - August 2010 outage
  • In the UK, the Alstom Transport's team in Edgware won second place in the Tube Lines Projects Safety Awards 2010.

Protecting our employees through prevention


Alstom is committed to providing a safe working environment for each and every employee.

The breadth of our commitment is demonstrated in our environment, health and safety policy deployed through our EHS management system, alongside tailored programmes across the globe. A few examples:

  • In Mannheim, Germany, sport is encouraged by the company, 10 yoga sessions are proposed to employees and twice a year, external nutritionists come in to offer advice.
  • The “SWING” programme launched by the “Swiss Foundation for Health Promotion” to measure the impact of corporate health management initiatives through yearly evaluation of employee well-being, stress levels, satisfaction, followed by action plans.
  • In India, a comprehensive health programme has been set up, including a helpdesk to facilitate cashless check-ups and reimbursements claims. Access to health services have been facilitated and the claim ratio has been significantly reduced. In addition, all major sites have equipped medical dispensaries including consultant doctors.

Our goal is to provide life and disability coverage for all our employees, which currently reaches 98% of our workforce.

EHS management  

Alstom maintains and develops a pro-active environment, health and safety culture throughout the Group. Each Alstom business is responsible for implementing programmes and training to achieve best EHS practices. Our EHS management involves:

  • regular assessments of operations, management systems and procedures
  • establishing measurement systems to ensure compliance with this policy and applicable laws and regulations
  • informing employees, communities, customers and government agencies about EHS 
  • considering the impact of any EHS changes to existing practices.

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